Community-Based Primary Health Care : A Participatory and Inclusive Approach to Universal Health Coverage

A/RES/77/287View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 22 Eradication of poverty and other development issues, published in 2023.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Community Participation Health Policy Local Development Primary Health Care Universal Health Coverage

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Recognizes the importance of community-based health services as a critical component of primary health care and as a means of ensuring universal and equitable access to health for all;

Encourages Member States to promote partnerships and participatory and inclusive approaches, involving all relevant stakeholders, including local communities, health and care workers, volunteers and other key actors in the design, implementation and monitoring of community-based primary health care;

Also encourages Member States to explore measures to scale up and reference best practices, and evidence-based interventions at the international and national levels, to benefit from successful national experiences as key components of people-centred health systems;

Calls upon Member States to allocate adequate resources, including human and financial resources, and build synergies with other development priorities, to support the strengthening of community-based primary health care and explore innovative approaches in their respective countries;

Reaffirms that health financing requires global solidarity and collective effort, and invites international financial institutions, multilateral and regional development banks and donors to provide appropriate resources, especially for developing countries, to strengthen community-based health services towards the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;⁴

⁴Resolution 70/1.

Encourages Member States to work in close collaboration with the World Health Organization and other relevant United Nations entities and other relevant stakeholders, in the implementation of community-based primary health care, especially for those left furthest behind;

Encourages the World Health Organization and other relevant United Nations entities and other relevant stakeholders, within their respective mandates, to provide technical support for long-term sustainability of community-based primary health care;

Requests the Secretary-General, in coordination with the Director General of the World Health Organization, to take steps towards the effective implementation of the present resolution, taking into account the broader universal health coverage process.

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