High
Achieving this outcome requires improved national and subnational health policies and planning, strengthening of the essential public health functions, sustained and improved public financing for health in which financial and non-financial health access barriers are addressed, and a fit-for-purpose health workforce. Specifically, the following actions will be implemented:
- Strengthen the capacity of health authorities to lead effective, participatory, and comprehensive national and subnational processes and formulate, monitor, and evaluate policies, plans, and programs to improve health throughout the life course, based on evidence and quality data. This will entail the reorientation of health systems toward primary health care, including the regulation of resources (financial, technological, health workforce) that impact the achievement of universal access to health and universal health coverage and health system resilience.
- Improve and prioritize the evaluation and implementation of the essential public health functions at all institutional levels in collaboration with civil society to strengthen the development of health systems based on primary health care.
- Generate evidence and information on health financing and the economy, increase and improve public expenditure and resource allocation in health, prioritizing investments in health development and promotion, disease prevention, and the expansion of health systems based on primary health care. Protect against financial risks that cause impoverishing or catastrophic expenditure.
- Promote and undertake continued analysis of the health workforce and labor market, and lead intersectoral planning processes to attract, recruit, and retain health workers, and address substantive workforce gaps, accelerating the availability of a well-qualified, well-distributed workforce, particularly for remote and underserved areas and populations.
- Promote the transformation of health-professional education based on primary health care, supporting interprofessional capacity building, the organization of interprofessional teams within health services, and the development of public health capacities.
Resolution CD61.R11 – Strategy for Strengthening the Essential Public Health Functions to Accelerate Health Systems Transformation 2024–2034 (Document CD61/9) (2024)
UN Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage (2024)
Resolution CD60.R4 – Policy on the Health Workforce 2030: Strengthening Human Resources for Health to Achieve Resilient Health Systems (Document CD60/6) (2023)
Resolution CD59.R12 – Strategy for Building Resilient Health Systems and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery to Sustain and Protect Public Health Gains (Document CD59/11) (2021)
Resolution CD56.R5 – Plan of Action on Human Resources for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage 2018–2023 (Document CD56/10, Rev. 1) (2018)
Resolution CSP29.R15 – Strategy on Human Resources for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage (Document CSP29/10) (2017)
Resolution CD55.R8 – Resilient Health Systems (Document CD55/9) (2016)
Resolution CD54.R9 – Strategy on Health-related Law (Document CD54/14, Rev. 1) (2015)
Resolution CD53.R14 – Strategy for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage (Document CD53/5, Rev. 2) (2014)