REMEDIUM

Within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, goals were formulated, including those targeting to improve quality of life of people all around the world. The task was formulated to ensure universal coverage of health services. In 2019, the United Nations General Assembly noted that at least half of world's population have no access to basic health services. The study developed methodology to carry out comprehensive comparative analysis of values of individual public health indicators and amount of population payments for medications to confirm possibility of applying these indicators to monitor public health, including possibility of international comparisons. The study demonstrated inverse relationship between share of citizens' funds to pay for medications, index of universal health coverage and life expectancy. The stable direct relationship between such indicators as overall mortality rate from non-communicable diseases and likelihood of dying at the age of 30–70 years from any of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases.