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Wong YS, Allotey P, Reidpath DD. Sustainable development goals, universal health coverage and equity in health systems: the Orang Asli commons approach. Glob Health Epidemiol Genom. 2016;1:e12doi: 10.1017/gheg.2016.8.
Wong, Y. S., Allotey, P., & Reidpath, D. D. (2016). Sustainable development goals, universal health coverage and equity in health systems: the Orang Asli commons approach. Global health, epidemiology and genomics, 1e12. https://doi.org/10.1017/gheg.2016.8
Wong, Y S, et al. "Sustainable development goals, universal health coverage and equity in health systems: the Orang Asli commons approach." Global health, epidemiology and genomics vol. 1 (2016): e12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/gheg.2016.8
Wong YS, Allotey P, Reidpath DD. Sustainable development goals, universal health coverage and equity in health systems: the Orang Asli commons approach. Glob Health Epidemiol Genom. 2016 Jul 11;1:e12. doi: 10.1017/gheg.2016.8. eCollection 2016. PMID: 29868204; PMCID: PMC5870403.
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Glob Health Epidemiol Genom. 2016 Jul 11;1:e12. doi: 10.1017/gheg.2016.8. eCollection 2016.

Sustainable development goals, universal health coverage and equity in health systems: the Orang Asli commons approach.

Global health, epidemiology and genomics

Y S Wong, P Allotey, D D Reidpath

Affiliations

  1. School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
  2. Executive Director's Office, Malaysian Care, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  3. Global Public Health and SEACO, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor DE, Malaysia.
  4. South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO), Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia.

PMID: 29868204 PMCID: PMC5870403 DOI: 10.1017/gheg.2016.8

Abstract

Universal health coverage is a key health target in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that has the means to link equitable social and economic development. As a concept firmly based on equity, it is widely accepted at international and national levels as important for populations to attain 'health for all' especially for marginalised groups. However, implementing universal coverage has been fraught with challenges and the increasing privatisation of health care provision adds to the challenge because it is being implemented in a health system that rests on a property regime that promotes inequality. This paper asks the question, 'What does an equitable health system look like?' rather than the usual 'How do you make the existing health system more equitable?' Using an ethnographic approach, the authors explored via interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation a health system that uses the commons approach such as which exists with indigenous peoples and found features that helped make the system intrinsically equitable. Based on these features, the paper proposes an alternative basis to organise universal health coverage that will better ensure equity in health systems and ultimately contribute to meeting the SDGs.

Keywords: Indigenous Peoples; Orang Asli; commons; universal health coverage

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