A/RES/74/2
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 October 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 126
Global health and foreign policy
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 10 October 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/74/L.4)]
74/2.
Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal
health coverage
The General Assembly
Adopts the following political declaration approved by the high-level meeting
on universal health coverage on 23 September 2019:
Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal
health coverage
Universal health coverage: moving together to build a healthier world
We, Heads of State and Government and representatives of States and
Governments, assembled at the United Nations on 23 September 2019, with a
dedicated focus for the first time on universal health coverage, reaffirm that health is
a precondition for and an outcome and indicator of the social, economic and
environmental dimensions of sustainable development and the implementation of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 and strongly recommit to achieve
universal health coverage by 2030, with a view to scaling up the global effort to build
a healthier world for all, and in this regard we:
1.
Reaffirm the right of every human being, without distinction of any kind,
to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;
2.
Reaffirm General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015,
entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”,
stressing the need for a comprehensive and people-centred approach, with a view to
leaving no one behind, reaching the furthest behind first, and the importance of health
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