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SDG 3—ensuring healthy lives for all—is proven by • It makes a clear call to take more seriously the See Online/The Lancet
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the increasingly sophisticated efforts to measure alleviation of the burden of pain, suffering, and http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/
UHC and to estimate to what extent UHC can be severe distress associated with life-threatening or life- S0140-6736(17)32513-8
settings).2 The Commission has uncovered an appalling 1 GBD 2015 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators. Healthcare Access
and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal
oversight in global health. It is time for that oversight health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis
to be remedied. from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet 2017; 390: 231–66.
2 Knaul FM, Farmer PE, Krakauer EL, et al, on behalf of the Lancet
Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief Study
Group. Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an
Richard Horton imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report.
The Lancet, London EC2Y 5AS, UK Lancet 2017; published online Oct 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/
richard.horton@lancet.com S0140-6736(17)32513-8.