Since its conception, the UHC Partnership has built capacities of ministries of health to lead inclusive, participatory and evidence-informed policy dialogue. The support of the UHC Partnership results in mutual trust to strengthen stakeholders’ collaboration, while the evidence and data provided bring a shared understanding of needs and policy options to strengthen health system governance.
In order to reach universal health coverage (UHC), health systems must be oriented towards a primary health care (PHC) approach, which includes three essential components: multisectoral policy and action; empowered people and communities; and primary care and essential public health functions at the core of integrated health services. The Partnership is an integral part of the WHO Special Programme on PHC which developed an operational framework for PHC in 2020 to propose 14 levers to translate global commitments into operational results.
Strengthening PHC to ensure strong health systems foundations and to maintain essential health services is an important focus of the UHC Partnership. In addition to disease management, the UHC Partnership works to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, leaving no one behind. Because many of the factors that threaten health and well-being today lie beyond an individual’s control, the UHC Partnership is committed to supporting Member States to address determinants of health, to promote multisectoral actions to reduce risk factors and to prioritize health in all policies and healthy settings.
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Video recording: Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly Strategic Roundtable – Radical reorientation of health systems towards primary health care as the foundation of universal health coverage: The best and only choice to achieve universal health coverage