Table 2.

Literature reviewed as part of the scoping review.

Sl. No.	Author and Title of article	Name of Journal and Year of publication	Salient findings
1	Lauer J.A et al. (1), Rajan D, Bertram M.Y. Priority setting for Universal health coverage: we need to focus both on substance and on process.	Int J Health Policy Manag 2017	Identify the three main indicators within the UHC framework: Coverage, Equity, Financial risk protection
2	Sundari T.K et al. (2). Towards Universal health coverage? Taking stock of two decades of health reforms in India.	India’s Economy and Society 2021	Evidence for PPPs’ which portray neither an increase in the available range of services nor a significant population-level impact on expanding coverage to the impoverished population
3	Zodpey S (6). Universal Health Coverage in India: Progress achieved & the way forward.	Indian J Med Res April 2018	The tax revenue in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is a key determinant in the progress towards UHC.
4	Reddy K.S et al. (31). Towards achievement of universal health care in India by 2020: a call to action	The Lancet 2011	Public spending on health should be increased from 1 to 6% of the GDP. This will enable reducing the proportion of OOP expenditure from 80 to 20%.
5	Kumar R (8). Achieving Universal Health Coverage in India: The Need for Multisectoral Public Health Action.	Indian J Community Med 2020	Propose the establishment of an autonomous Public health commission in India, which will enable achieving the coordination of initiatives such as health promotion, disease prevention and provision of health care.
6	High level Expert group (14) report on Universal health coverage for India.	www.niti.gov.in Nov 2011	Depicts the 10 principles guiding the formulation of UHC in India
7	Kutzin J (17). Health financing for universal coverage and health system performance: Concepts and implications for policy.	Bulletin of the World Health Organization Aug 2013.	Report the association between increasing equity in distribution of health expenditure, and pertinent improvement of equity in the use of services and financial protection.
8	McKee M et al. (18). Universal Health Coverage: A quest for all countries but under threat in some.	Value in Health 2013	Identify five factors which enable the development of UHC: strength of organized labor, availability of resources, building shared identities, path dependency and windows of opportunity.
9	Gera R et al. (19). Sustainable development goals: Leveraging the Global agenda for driving health policy reforms and achieving Universal health coverage in India.	Indian J Community Med Oct-Dec 2018	Opine that unless the system provides adequate financial protection against health expenditure, the poverty alleviation programs in India cannot achieve their targets.
10	Baltussen R et al. (20). Priority setting for Universal health coverage: we need evidence-informed deliberative process, not just more evidence on cost-effectiveness.	Int J Health Policy Manag 2016	Interpret cost-effectiveness in the context of other stakeholder values, where-in the analysis captures the financial protection offered by the interventions to the target population.
11	Prinja S et al. (23). A composite indicator to measure universal health care coverage in India: way forward for post-2015 health system performance monitoring framework.	Health policy and planning 2017	Report a methodology towards computing a composite indicator for measuring the extent of UHC in terms of service coverage, financial risk protection and distributional aspects of service coverage.
12	Marten R et al. (24). An assessment of progress towards universal health coverage in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS).	Lancet 2014	Review progress of UHC in BRICS countries and report the relevant issues: insufficient public spending, ensuring equity, managing the needs for logistic support and human resources, stewarding the mixed private and public health systems, managing the burden of diseases and addressing the social determinants of health.