PHM-Exch> UN Gral Assembly: Global health and foreign policy -Social protection and universal health coverage

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>


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*Global health and foreign policy

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*United Nations General Assembly - Sixty-seventh session Agenda item 123 *

*Adopted by UNGA on December 12, 2012

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*“….**ADOPTING CONSENSUS TEXT, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENCOURAGES MEMBER STATES TO
PLAN,
PURSUE  TRANSITION OF NATIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS TOWARDS UNIVERSAL
COVERAGE….”

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**·                             **Document A/67/L.36 available in
English, عربي,
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“….Calls for more attention to health as an important cross-cutting policy
issue in the international agenda, as it is a precondition and an outcome
and indicator of all three dimensions of sustainable development, and for
the recognition that global health challenges require concerted and
sustained efforts to further promote a global policy environment supportive
of global health and sustainable development;  ****


 3.  Invites Member States to recognize the links between the promotion of
universal health coverage and other foreign policy issues, such as the
social dimension of globalization, cohesion and stability, inclusive and
equitable growth and sustainable development and sustainability of national
financing mechanisms, and the importance of universal coverage in national
health systems, especially through primary health care and social
protection mechanisms, including nationally determined social protection
floors;

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 4.  Also invites Member States to adopt a multisectoral approach and to
work on determinants of health within sectors including, as appropriate,
through the health-in-all-policies approach, while  taking into
consideration the social, environmental and economic determinants of
health, with a view to reducing health inequities and enabling sustainable
development, and stresses the urgent need to act on social determinants for
the final push towards the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals;  ….”

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“….7.  Reaffirms the leading role of the World Health Organization and the
important role of the United Nations system in enhancing the visibility of
health issues in the different international forums and in supporting
Member States in responding to the challenges of the implementation of
universal health coverage;

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*Social protection and universal health coverage

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 8.  Recognizes the responsibility of Governments to urgently and
significantly scale up efforts to accelerate the transition towards
universal access to affordable and quality health-care services;

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 9.  Also recognizes that effective and financially sustainable
implementation of universal health coverage is based on a resilient and
responsive health system that provides comprehensive primary health-care
services, with extensive geographical coverage, including in remote and
rural areas, and with a special emphasis on access to populations most in
need, and has an adequate skilled, well-trained and motivated workforce, as
well as capacities for broad public health measures, health protection and
addressing determinants of health through policies across sectors,
including promoting the health literacy of the population;

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 10.  Acknowledges that universal health coverage implies that all people
have access, without discrimination, to nationally determined sets of the
needed promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative basic health
services and essential, safe, affordable,  effective and quality medicines,
while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the users to
financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and
marginalized segments of the population;…”   *[Snippets]*

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