A/RES/76/302
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 September 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 129
Global health and foreign policy
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 2 September 2022
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/76/L.77 and A/76/L.77/Add.1)]
76/302.
International Day for Interventional Cardiology
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and its aspirational and global targets, which include
achieving the target of universal health coverage by 2030, including financial risk
protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe,
effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all,
Recalling its resolution 71/159 of 15 December 2016 entitled “Global health
and foreign policy: health employment and economic growth”, in which it underlined
the primary responsibility of Member States to accelerate their transition towards
achieving universal health coverage and recognized that health is a precondition for
and an outcome and indicator of all three dimensions of sustainable development,
Recalling also its resolution 66/115 of 12 December 2011 on global health and
foreign policy and all resolutions on the realization of the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health adopted
by the General Assembly,
Noting that non-communicable diseases, including heart disease, stroke, cancer,
diabetes and chronic lung disease, are collectively responsible for almost 70 per cent
of all deaths worldwide,
Concerned that the increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases
constitutes a heavy burden on society, with serious social and economic
consequences, and aware that there is a need to respond to cardiovascular diseases,
cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, which represent a leading threat to
human health and development,
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