Global health and foreign policy: accelerating the fight against
diseases driven by social determinants of health
A/RES/80/265
4.
Also urges Member States to scale up measures to promote and improve
mental health and well-being as an essential component of universal health coverage,
including by addressing the determinants that influence mental health, brain health,
neurological conditions, substance abuse and suicide, and by developing
comprehensive and integrated services, including community-based services, to
promote mental health and well-being, while fully respecting human rights, taking
into account the World Health Organization comprehensive mental health action plan
2013–2030;
5.
Further urges Member States to strengthen the capacity of health systems
for monitoring and minimizing the public health impacts of climate change through
adequate preventive measures, preparedness, timely response and effective
management of natural disasters, and to develop and integrate health measures into
climate change adaptation policies and plans as appropriate; and to implement, where
relevant, the global action plan on climate change and health (2025 –2028) adopted by
the World Health Assembly in decision 78(27);
6.
Urges Member States to ensure, by 2030, universal access to sexual and
reproductive healthcare services, including for family planning, information and
education and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and
programmes, and ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and
reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development 18 and the Beijing Platform
for Action, 19 and the outcome documents of their review conferences;
7.
Also urges Member States to ensure safe, timely and unhindered access of
humanitarian personnel and medical personnel responding to pandemics and other
health emergencies, as well as their means of transport, supplies and equipment, and
to support, facilitate and enable transportation and logistical supply lines, in order to
allow such personnel to efficiently and safely perform their task of assisting affected
populations, and in this regard also reaffirms the need to take the necessary measures
to respect and protect such personnel, hospitals and other medical facilities consistent
with international humanitarian law;
8.
Calls upon Member States, international organizations and other relevant
stakeholders to increase, mobilize and optimize both domestic and international
financial resources and investments to combat diseases driven by social determinants
of health in order to achieve optimal health outcomes for all, including to support
health promotion, prevention, early intervention and community -based responses, to
achieve universal health coverage and to ensure equitable access to essential quality,
safe, effective and affordable medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and health
technologies for all, including the promotion of generic medicine initiatives to reduce
out-of-pocket expenditure, as appropriate, particularly in support of developing
countries, in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity;
9.
Encourages Member States to foster and strengthen local and regional
production capacities for health products and North-South and South-South
cooperation in showcasing initiatives, and facilitating the transfer of technology on
mutually agreed terms for integrated action on health inequities, in line with national
priorities and needs, including on health services and pharmaceutical production, as
appropriate, including through the promotion of sustainable regional supply chains
and South-South and triangular cooperation;
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18
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5 –13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
19
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 –15 September 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
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