WHO leadership priority areas Flashcards
What are the 6 WHO leadership priority areas?
- Advancing universal health coverage
- Implementing the provisions of the international health regulations
- Increasing access to essential, high quality, effective and affordable medical products
- Addressing the social, economic and environmental determinants
- Addressing the challenge of non-communicable diseases and mental health, violence, injuries and disabilities
- Health regulated Millennium Development goals
Describe advancing universal health coverage
- Ensures that all people can obtain the health services they need without falling into poverty as a result
- Making sure that all countries can provide a health system to serve it’s citizens
Advancing universal health coverage - global health
- Ensuring all people can access health services at an affordable cost
- When people are healthy they are able to work and earn an income to afford healthy food, clean water, clothing, shelter and education.
Advancing universal health coverage - SHD
- When people are healthy there is greater economic development resulting in taxation revenue for governments to invest in a range of infrastructure such as safe water, sanitation and health care.
- Access to health services enables people to be more productive and active contributors to their families and communities (HD)
Describe implementing the provisions of the international health regulations
- Al countries must work together to reduce the spread of disease.
- Factors such as globalisation, environmental degradation, natural disasters and the way food is produced contribute to changing patterns in spread of diseases
Implementing the provisions of international health regulations - global health
- Reducing spread of disease will reduce morbidity and mortality rates
- Healthy individuals have more choices and are more able to access knowledge by attending school
Implementing the provisions of international health regulations - (SHD)
- Educated individuals are more likely to be employed and earn an income, which will enable them to afford the resources that promote health.
- Contributes to economic, social and environmental sustainability.
describe Increasing access to essential, high - quality, effective and affordable medical products
- Recognises that equity in health depends upon access to essential high - quality and affordable medical technologies, medicines, vaccines and diagnostic technologies
Increasing access to essential, high - quality, effective and affordable medical products - global health
- Healthy people are able to return to work and earn an income which is needed to purchase nutritious food, clothing, shelter, and education.
- reduced mortality rates, reduced morbidity rates, increased life expectancy
Increasing access to essential, high - quality, effective and affordable medical products - SHD
- Providing access to affordable medical products will help promote health and achieve sustainable human development
- Access to to affordable and safe medical technologies assists people to recover quickly from illness and develop to their full potential
Describe addressing the social, economic and environmental determinants
- Expands on the understanding of the inequities in health outcomes are often the result of the wide range of social, economic and environmental determinants that impact health
- To improve health and increase healthy life expectancy, action is needed across a range of factors that sit outside the health system
addressing the social, economic and environmental determinants - global health
- Access to clean water and sanitation will reduce the global morbidity and mortality associated with diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea.
- As families are effected, women must stay home to care for sick kids which prevents them from working which reduces the level of income to purchase nutritious food, clean water, shelter and clothing
addressing the social, economic and environmental determinants - SHD
- Children in particular are most at risk of these diseases which contribute to malnutrition and reduced access to education and decent standard of living and force many families into poverty.
- Poverty reduces choices and the control people have over decisions affecting their lives
Describe addressing the challenge of non communicable diseases and mental health, violence, injuries and disabilities
- Has a focus on combating the four major non communicable diseases: cardiovascular disease, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes
- Has a focus on early detection of diseases and provides technical support
addressing the challenge of non communicable diseases and mental health, violence, injuries and disabilities - global health
- WHO will continue to gather and analyse data on global disability strengthens health systems for the provision of rehabilitation and assist technologies and enhance community based rehab.
