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Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime. This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people-centred rather than disease-centred. PHC is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.
Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. It covers the full continuum of essential health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.
Scaling up primary health care (PHC) interventions across low and middle-income countries could save 60 million lives and increase average life expectancy by 3.7 years by 2030. The majority of essential interventions (90%) for universal health coverage can be delivered using a PHC approach. An estimated 75% of the projected health gains from ...
Philippines: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the implementation of the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act (1), the Philippines’ health system, especially its chief health agency the Department... WHO's primary role is to direct international health within the United Nations' system and to lead ...
Health equity. Equity is the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically or by other dimensions of inequality (e.g. sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, or sexual orientation). Health is a fundamental human right.
Health financing. Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage by improving effective service coverage and financial protection. Today, millions of people do not access services due to the cost. Many others receive poor quality of services even when they pay out-of-pocket.
Webinar - One WHO for One Health: Tackling health challenges through a holistic lens. 8 November 2024 14: ...
Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both tackle COVID-19, and provide people with vital care. In another blow, the pandemic threatens to set back hard-won global health progress achieved over the past two decades - in fighting infectious diseases, for example, and improving maternal and child health.
The World Health Statistics 2020 summarizes recent trends in life expectancy and reports on progress towards the main health and health-related Sustainable... Download Read More
More. “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.”. Health Promotion Glossary, 1998. A brief history of Health Promotion. The first International Conference on Health Promotion was held in Ottawa in 1986, and was primarily a response to growing expectations for a new public ...