{"id":987792151,"date":"2024-06-01T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T05:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=documents&#038;p=987792151"},"modified":"2025-11-27T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:14:01","slug":"universal-health-coverage-and-equal-access-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/universal-health-coverage-and-equal-access-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal health coverage and equal access in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TO BE EDITED &#8211; TEXT &#8211; Click on the WHEEL icon to open the text-area where you can type your text. Add a paragraph to introduce the Document&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Sweden\u2019s journey toward universal health coverage evolved over a century, beginning with policies aiming to provide access for the neediest and culminating in mandatory insurance and equal healthcare rights for all by 1955. Legal guarantees for horizontal equity (equal access for all) emerged in 1983, followed by vertical equity (priority based on need) in 1997, with later reforms introducing free choice and privatization to address access challenges. Though Sweden continues to rank high in affordability and equity, emerging private insurance and organizational barriers have begun to challenge universal access, raising questions about the future trajectory of its welfare model<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s journey toward universal health coverage evolved over a century, beginning with policies aiming to provide access for the neediest and culminating in mandatory insurance and equal healthcare rights for all by 1955. Legal guarantees for horizontal equity (equal access for all) emerged in 1983, followed by vertical equity (priority based on need) in 1997,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"document_type":[2337],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987792151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documents"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987792151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987792151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987792168,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987792151\/revisions\/987792168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987792151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987792151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987792151"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987792151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}