WHO Flashcards
WHO
6 Priority areas
Branch of the UN concerned with promoting global health.
- Works to provide leadership on global health issues. Provides resources and support to countries that require assistance in improving the health of their citizens.
- Universal Health coverage
Big Idea:
- Combines access to services needed for good health with financial protection to protect ill health leading to poverty.
Do?:
- Respond to demand from countries seeking practical advice on how to take universal health coverage forward.
- The International Health Regulations
Big Idea:
- WHO has a leadership role in establishing the systems that make up the global defence against shocks coming from the microbial world.
DO?:
- Support countries to put in place capacities required by IHR and report on progress.
- Strengthen own systems to ensure a rapid and well coordinated response to public health emergencies.
- Increasing access to medical products
Big Idea:
- Equity in public health depends on access to essential, high quality, affordable medical tech. Improving access is essential to universal health coverage.
DO?:
- Continue to improve access to safe, quality and affordable health technology, local production and national regulatory authorities.
- Social, economic and environmental determinants
Big Idea:
- To improve health outcomes and increase L.E. Requires action across range of factors to enable a healthy life
DO?:
- Work with other sectors to act on what causes disease and ill health. Our work will address health determinants and promote equity.
- Non Communicable Diseases
Big Idea:
- Rise of non-communicable diseases has devastating health consequences for individuals, families, communities and threatens to overwhelm health systems.
DO?:
- Coordinate a coherent, multisectoral response at global and regional levels.
- Health Related Millennium Development goals
Big Idea:
- World must sustain the gains that have been made and help create more levels of achievement
DO?:
-The Goals will integrate many aspects of our work, particularly building robust health systems and effective health institutions for sustainable and equitable health outcomes.
