WHO priority areas Flashcards
universal health coverage
Universal health coverage combines access to the services needed to achieve good health with financial protection to prevent ill health
What will we do?
Respond to demand from countries seeking practical advice on how to take universal health coverage forward leading to poverty.
international health regulations
The IHR are an international legal instrument that is binding on 196 countries across the globe, including all Member States of the WHO. Their aim is to help the international community prevent and respond to acute public health risks that have the potential to cross borders and threaten people worldwide.
The IHR, which entered into force on 15 June 2007, require countries to report certain disease outbreaks and public health events to the WHO. Building on the unique experience of the WHO in global disease surveillance, alert and response, the IHR define the rights and obligations of countries to report public health events, and establish a number of procedures that the WHO must follow in its work to uphold global public health security.
WHO has a leadership role in establishing the systems that make up the global defence against shocks coming from the microbial world.
What will we do?
Support countries to put in place the capacities required by the International Health Regulations (2005) and report on progress. We will strengthen our own systems and networks to ensure a rapid and well-coordinated response to public health emergencies
increasing access to medical products
Equity in public health depends on access to essential,
high-quality and affordable medical technologies.
Improving access to medical products is central to the
achievement of universal health coverage.
What will we do?
We will continue to improve access to safe, quality, affordable and effective medicines. We will support innovation for affordable health technology, local production, and national regulatory authorities.
social, economic and environmental determinants
To improve people’s health outcomes and increase healthy life expectancy requires action across the range of contextual factors associated with ill health as well as inequitable health outcomes.
What will we do?
We will 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
The rise of noncommunicable diseases has devastating health consequences for individuals, families and communities, and threatens to overwhelm health systems.
What will we do?
It is a priority to coordinate a coherent, multisectoral response at global, regional and local levels
health related SDG goals
The world must sustain the gains that have been made towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goals and help create more equal levels of achievement.
What will we 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.
what does the WHO do?
- providing leadership on matters critical to health
- shaping the health research agenda
- defining norms and standards for health
- articulating policy options for health
- providing technical support and building capacity to monitor health trends
