Health financing in the context of the right to health 2012, para. 50
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- In addition to achieving more equitable health outcomes, allocating health funds and resources with a focus on primary health care also promotes efficiency within health systems. Primary health care has been demonstrated to be more cost-efficient over the long term because it prevents illness and promotes general health, reducing the need for advanced levels of curative care, which tend to be more costly. Savings resulting from investment in primary health care may be reinvested in the health system and utilized to increase access to health care for the poor, which in a virtuous cycle should further improve health outcomes. While a comprehensive and balanced health system must include available and accessible secondary and tertiary care services, States should prioritize primary health care in the allocation of health funds and resources.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/302, para. 50.
- Paragraph number
- 50
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