A/RES/74/20 Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems 36. Calls upon Member States to strengthen health information systems and collect quality, timely and reliable data, including vital statistics, disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographical location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts as required to monitor progress and identify gaps in the universal and inclusive achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 3 and all other health-related Sustainable Development Goals, while protecting the privacy of data that could be linked to individuals, and to ensure that the statistics used in the monitoring progress can capture the actual progress made on the ground, for the achievement of universal health coverage, in l ine with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 37. Also calls upon Member States to set measurable national targets and strengthen national monitoring and evaluation platforms, as appropriate, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to support regular tracking of the progress made for the achievement of universal health coverage by 2030; 38. Further calls upon Member States to provide strategic leadership on universal health coverage at the highest political level and promote grea ter policy coherence and coordinated actions through whole-of-government and health-in-allpolicies approaches, and forge a coordinated and integrated whole -of-society and multisectoral response, while recognizing the need to align support from all stakeholders to achieve national health goals; 39. Encourages Member States to enhance international cooperation and official development assistance for health, and to develop primary health care preparedness for health emergencies, to support and complement national and regional strategies, policies and programmes, and surveillance initiatives; 40. Also encourages Member States to ensure sufficient domestic public spending on health, where appropriate, expand pooling of resources allocated to health, maximize efficiency and ensure equitable allocation of health spending, to deliver cost-effective, essential, affordable, timely and quality health services, improve service coverage, reduce impoverishment from health expenditure and ensure financial risk protection, while noting the role of private sector investment, as appropriate; 41. Further encourages Member States to mobilize all relevant development cooperation partners and stakeholders from the health sector and beyond within their respective mandates, to ensure necessary and sustained financing for health system strengthening, including through the implementation of innovative mechanisms, enhancement of international cooperation and promotion of universal access to quality health-care services, including through partnerships with civil society, relevant research institutions and the private sector; 42. Encourages the Secretary-General to promote discussion among Member States and relevant stakeholders, in particular United Nations agencies, on appropriate policy options to promote access to medicines, innovation and health technologies in the context of strengthening health systems; 43. Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director General of the World Health Organization, to address, inter alia, the challenges and opportunities of inclusive approaches to strengthening health system s in the context of the progress report to be submitted during the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly as requested in the political declaration of the high -level meeting on universal health coverage. 44th plenary meeting 11 December 2019 12/12 19-21394