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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">HEALTH IN THE POST-2015 AGENDA<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Final Report of the Global Thematic Consultation
on Health<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
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April 2013<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c;font-weight:bold"><br>
World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Government of <u></u>Sweden<u></u>,
the Government of <u></u><u></u>Botswana<u></u><u></u>,
United Nations<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c;font-weight:bold"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><i><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c;font-style:italic">“…Human development as an
approach, deals with what I consider the basic development idea: <br>
namely, increasing the richness of human life rather than the wealth of the economy
in which human beings live, which is only a part of life itself</span></font></i><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">.”<br>
—</span></font><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Amartya Sen, Nobel
Prize winner for economics in 1998<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Available online PDF [108p.] at: <a href="http://bit.ly/Yg9oMI" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span>http://bit.ly/Yg9oMI</span></font></a> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">“…..Between September 2012 and March 2013 the Global
Thematic Consultation on Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda received
inputs from people and organizations around the world on how best to ensure the
health of future generations.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">The objectives for the consultation were:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">- to stimulate wide-ranging discussion at global, regional, and
country levels on progress made and lessons learnt from the MDGs relating to
health;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">- to discuss and develop a shared understanding among Member
States, UN agencies, civil society, and other stakeholders on the positioning
of health in the post-2015 development framework; and<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">- to propose health goals and related targets and indicators for
the post-2015 development agenda, as well as approaches for implementation,
measurement, and monitoring.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c"><br>
</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Over 150,000 people from all regions visited the
consultation website </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">(<a href="http://bit.ly/W7AU00" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span>http://bit.ly/W7AU00</span></font></a>
).</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Over 100 papers were submitted by a wide
range of organizations and authors, and 14 face-to-face meetings attracted over
1,600 people in places as far apart as <u></u>La Paz<u></u>, <u></u>Dar es Salaam<u></u>, <u></u>Abuja<u></u>, <u></u>Amsterdam<u></u>, <u></u>New York<u></u>, <u></u>Beijing<u></u>, and <u></u><u></u>Bangkok<u></u><u></u>.
<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The papers and meeting reports are available on the consultation
website. </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://bit.ly/W7AU00" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span>http://bit.ly/W7AU00</span></font></a>
</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Following a three-week public review of the first draft of this
report, a high-level meeting was convened</span></font><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c"> in <u></u><u></u>Gaborone<u></u>,
<u></u>Botswana<u></u><u></u> in
early March 2013 to discuss a revised draft.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">This report is a summary of the findings from the full
consultative process….”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><b><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c;font-weight:bold">Content <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Executive summary <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">1. Introduction <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">The debate on the post-2015 development agenda begins <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">About this report <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">2. The consultation process <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">3. Lessons from the health MDGs <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Strengths and achievements <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Room for improvement <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Differing views on the same issue <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">4. How health is linked to development <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Health as a beneficiary of and a contributor to development <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">The links between health and the ten other post-2015 UN
development themes <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Health as a critical pathway to human rights and equality <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">5. Health priorities post-2015: opportunities and challenges <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">A complex, rapidly changing, uncertain world <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Emerging health priorities <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">The importance of health systems <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">6. Guiding principles, goals, targets, and indicators: summary
of inputs from the consultation <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Universal challenges, universal goals <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Guiding principles for the post-2015 development framework <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">A development agenda focused on health and well-being <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">A health goal: maximizing healthy lives <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">A goal of universal coverage of and access to affordable,
comprehensive, high-quality health services <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">More MDG-like goals <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Indicators to monitor progress <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">7. Implementation: mutual accountability and shared responsibility
<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Comprehensive health and poverty-reduction policies and
mechanisms <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Financial resources and mechanisms <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-autospace:none"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Accountability and improving measurement capacities <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Cooperation
and coordination<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">8.
Framing health in the post-2015 development agenda <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Health
and the post-2015 agenda: inextricably linked <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Health
goals for an evolving world: universal, equitable, people-centred, and results-oriented
<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Not
just what, but how <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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9. The road to 2015 <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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Annex 1. Summary of written inputs into the consultation <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Table
1: Consultations <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c">Table
2: Submitted papers<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><i><font color="#1a181c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1a181c;font-style:italic">This publication is a synthesis of
inputs received during the Global Thematic Consultation on Health. The content and
recommendations do not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of the
World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Government of Sweden or the Government
of Botswana, or reflect the official views of the United Nations, its agencies
or its Member States.<br>
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