Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive
approach to strengthening health systems
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providing decent and safe working conditions and appropriate remuneration for health
workers working in these areas, consistent with the World Health Organization Global
Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel, 18 noting with
concern that highly trained and skilled health personnel continue to emigrate, which
weakens health systems in the countries of origin;
15. Calls upon Member States to develop evidence-based training that is
sensitive to different cultures and the specific needs of women, children and persons
with disabilities, skills enhancement and education of health workers, including
midwives and community health workers, as well as promote a continued education
and lifelong learning agenda and expand community-based health education and
training in order to provide quality care for people throughout the life course;
16. Encourages Member States to fulfil their commitment to, by 2030, ensure
universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family
planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into
national strategies and programmes;
17. Calls upon Member States to strengthen efforts to address communicable
diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and hepatitis, as part of
universal health coverage and to ensure that the fragile gains are sustained and
expanded by advancing comprehensive approaches and integrated service delivery
and ensuring that no one is left behind;
18. Also calls upon Member States to further strengthen efforts to address
non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic
respiratory diseases, diabetes, as well as kidney diseases, as part of universal health
coverage;
19. Further calls upon Member States to take steps to promote actions to raise
international awareness on the issue of waterborne diseases, in particular cholera and
child diarrhoea, which can be prevented through safe drinking water and adequate
sanitation and hygiene, engaging in partnerships with relevant stakeholders to
implement projects aimed at scaling up access to safe water and sanitation in
developing countries;
20. Encourages Member States to develop health- and nutrition-promoting
environments, including through nutrition education in schools and other education
institutions, as appropriate, and to scale up community-based actions that support
children and families, through the promotion of maternal health and recommended
infant feeding practices such as breastfeeding;
21. Calls upon Member States, in partnership with other relevant stakeholders,
including international and regional organizations and academia, to consider scaling
up research and knowledge dissemination on the correlations between health, notably
its economic and social determinants, and nutrition and food systems to generate
evidence and guidance on effective nutrition programmes and policies;
22. Encourages Member States and relevant organizations to reinforce
immunization and vaccination as one of the most important ways to reduce the
number of deaths caused by preventable diseases and also to reinforce in their
societies the safety and efficacy of vaccines, aiming at eliminating vaccinepreventable diseases, and calls upon Member States to strengthen public health
surveillance and data systems, improve routine immunization and vaccination
capacities, including by providing evidence-based information on countering vaccine
hesitancy, and expand vaccine coverage to prevent outbreaks as well as the spread
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