UNivERSITY Of OXFORD NEWS & EVENTS Home News Oxford researchers' index shows international healthcare systems becoming more universal Oxford researchers' index shows international healthcare systems becoming more universal RESEARCH Healthcare systems across the world have become more universal over the last 25 years, but countries in the Global South still lag behind those in the North; according to a new healthcare universalism index developed by researchers from the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID): Data derived using the new index also identified that countries with more universal healthcare systems had better health outcomes, lower inequality in life expectancy and even EIeUl4 Le +