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SP 2026-2031
1.1
OUTCOME
Health disparities, social determinants, risk factors, and health promotion
Accelerate efforts toward health for all, addressing the social determinants of health, environmental challenges, and risk factors

Medium

Scope

This outcome aims to reduce health disparities, prevent diseases, and promote health and well-being by addressing the social determinants of health and risk factors. Achieving this requires intersectoral action, strengthening local governance for health and fostering social participation and community engagement, with a special focus on populations in situations of vulnerability. Specifically, the following actions will be implemented:

  1. Pursue attainment of the highest level of health for all through action on social determinants of health in all their dimensions as well as environmental determinants, including by enhancing health sector capacity to monitor social determinants of health and health disparities, and assess the impact of policies within and beyond the health sector by advancing multisectoral coordination to address the determinants.
  2. Better respond to the health needs of populations in situations of vulnerability.
  3. Strengthen intersectoral action and Health in All Policies, including collaboration with social protection, labor, environment, education, and other sectors.
  4. Strengthen legal frameworks to promote health and prevent diseases and injuries.
  5. Strengthen social participation and community engagement to improve health and well-being for all, increase the effectiveness and sustainability of policies and programs, strengthen local governance for health and well-being, and tackle urban health challenges.
  6. Promote health and well-being by implementing effective population-based health promotion strategies, including healthy settings (schools, workplaces, universities, markets, and housing) with a multisectoral approach.
  7. Take decisive action to meet national, regional, and global health goals related to the environmental determinants of health by, among other things, improving air quality and reducing exposure to air pollution; providing clean household energy; improving waste management, including healthcare waste; and ensuring safely managed water and sanitation services.
  8. Intensify efforts to prevent diseases and premature death by taking action on risk factors and promoting healthy environments. This includes:
    1. Reducing modifiable risk factors for noncommunicable diseases, including all forms of malnutrition, through action on their determinants, intersectoral action, and community participation.
    2. Intensifying efforts to prevent communicable diseases and related conditions through action on risk factors and their underlying causes, such as environmental determinants, and strengthened community engagement, and intersectoral coordination, including incorporating an approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.
    3. Addressing occupational and environmental risk factors for health by improving conditions, including access to clean water, sanitation services, and hygiene, and by addressing the impacts associated with increased pollution from microplastics, heavy metals, solid waste, and hazardous chemicals.
Outcome indicators

SP20–25
Modifies 19.b
SHAA 2030
N/A
GPW
N/A
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
5
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
28

SP20–25
New
SHAA 2030
2.5
GPW
N/A
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
7
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
27

SP20–25
19.a
SHAA 2030
2.5
GPW
N/A
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
8
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
23

SP20–25
Modifies 26.a
SHAA 2030
11.1
GPW
N/A
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
6
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
20

SP20–25
New
SHAA 2030
2.5
GPW
N/A
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
6
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
9

SP20–25
18.b
SHAA 2030
11.5
GPW
N/A
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
3
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
8

SP20–25
18.g
SHAA 2030
11.2
GPW
N/A
SDG
3.9.1; 3.9.2; 6.3; 12.4.1, 12.4.2
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
7
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
19

SP20–25
18.c
SHAA 2030
11.3
GPW
✓
SDG
6.2.1
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
75%
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
81%

SP20–25
18.d
SHAA 2030
11.3
GPW
✓
SDG
6.2.1
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
49%
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
57%

SP20–25
New
SHAA 2030
N/A
GPW
N/A
SDG
3.5.1
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
2
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
7

SP20–25
13.d
SHAA 2030
9.1
GPW
N/A
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2025
Baseline Value:
10
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
25

SP20–25
13.a
SHAA 2030
9.2
GPW
✓
SDG
3.a.1
Baseline Year:
2022
Baseline Value:
16.6%
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
14.2%

SP20–25
13.e
SHAA 2030
9.1
GPW
✓
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2022
Baseline Value:
35.6%
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
30.3%

SP20–25
13.c
SHAA 2030
9.1
GPW
N/A
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2019
Baseline Value:
8.5
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
6.0

SP20–25
14.a
SHAA 2030
9.7
GPW
✓
SDG
2.2.1
Baseline Year:
2022
Baseline Value:
9.2%
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
5.5%

SP20–25
14.d
SHAA 2030
9.7
GPW
✓
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2022
Baseline Value:
67.5%
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
67.5%

SP20–25
14.f
SHAA 2030
9.7
GPW
✓
SDG
N/A
Baseline Year:
2023
Baseline Value:
37%
Target Year:
2031
Target Value:
60%
Mapping of regional and global mandates

Resolution WHA77.2. – Social participation for universal health coverage, health and well-being (2024)

Resolution WHA76.16 – Health of Indigenous Peoples (2023)

Resolution CD61.R12 – Strategy and Plan of Action to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2025–2030 (2024)

Resolution WHA77.13 – Economics of health for all (2024)

Resolution WHA76.17 – The impact of chemicals, waste and pollution on human health (2023)

Resolution CSP30.R2 – Policy for Recovering Progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals with Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health and Intersectoral Work (Document CSP30/8) (2022)

Resolution WHA75.19 – Well-being and health promotion (2022)

Resolution WHA74.16 – Social Determinants of Health (2021) 

Resolution CD57.R12 – Plan of Action for the Elimination of Industrially Produced Trans-Fatty Acids 2020-2025 (Document CD57/8) (2020)

Resolution CD57.R10 – Strategy and Plan of Action on Health Promotion within the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals 2019-2030 (Document CD57/10) (2019) 

Resolution CD57.R14 – Strategy and Plan of Action on Ethnicity and Health 2019-2025 (Document CD57/13, Rev. 1) (2019) 

Resolution WHA72(9) – WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change: the transformation needed to improve lives and well-being sustainably through healthy environments (2019)

Resolution CSP29.R3 – Policy on Ethnicity and Health (Document CSP29/7, Rev. 1) (2017) 

Resolution WHA69.4 – The role of the health sector in the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management towards the 2020 goal and beyond (2016)

Resolution CD54.R6 – Plan of Action on Workers’ Health (Document CD54/10, Rev. 1) (2015) 

Resolution WHA67.11 – Public health impacts of exposure to mercury and mercury compounds: the role of WHO and ministries of public health in the implementation of the Minamata Convention (2015)

Resolution CD52.R6 – Addressing the Causes of Disparities in Health Service Access and Utilization for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans (LGBT) Persons (Document CD52/18) (2013)

 WHA63.25 – Improvement of health through safe and environmentally sound waste management (2011)

 Resolution CD50.R8 – Health and Human Rights (Document CD50/12) (2010) 

Resolution CD48.R2 – WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Opportunities and Challenges for its Implementation in the Region of the Americas (Document CD48/12) (2008) 

Resolution CD46.R16 – PAHO Gender Equality Policy (Document CD46/12) (2005)