The achievement of Universal Health Coverage requires strengthening Primary Health Care: the “30by2030”-campaign!
The phrase: ‘Primary healthcare (PHC) is a cornerstone of universal health coverage (UHC)’ (1) has become a ‘mantra’ in WHO documents. PHC has been conceptualized in the Alma-Ata Declaration, described in the World Health Report o f 2008 as ‘Primary health care: now more than ever!’ and repeated in the 2018 Declaration ‘From Alma-Ata towards universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals’. This paves the way for all governments to develop quality primary health care.
Jan De Maeseneer
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, WHO Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care
Ghent University, Belgium
Donald Li
President
World Organisation of Family Doctors (Wonca) Hong Kong, China
Bjorg Palsdottir
Chief Executive Officer, Training for Health Equity Network
THEnet, USA
Bob Mash
Head of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and co-ordinator of the sub-Saharan Primary Care and Family Medicine Network (Primafamed)
Diederik Aarendonk
Coordinator European Forum for Primary Care
The Netherlands
Anna Stavdal
Family Medicine Specialist and university teacher, Oslo, Norway. President Elect of World Organisation of Family Doctors, Wonca
Shabir Moosa
President WONCA Africa / Facilitator AfroPHC
South Africa
Peter Decat
Doctoral assistant, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Ghent University, Belgium
Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde
Department of Health Workforce Education and Development, African Center for Global Health and Social Transformation, Uganda. Secretary-General, The Network: Towards Unity For Health
Gorik Ooms
Policy advisor at HERW!N, the federation of social and circular enterprises in Flanders, and visiting professor at Ghent University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Georgetown University
Sara Willems
Associate professor in Equity in Health Care, Head of Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University
Belgium
There are total of 407 people signed the 30 by 2030 petition!
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We call for major international donors to assign a part of their vertical (disease-oriented) categorical budgets, increasing to 30% by 2030, to strengthening horizontal Primary Health Care systems so that all diseases can be prevented and people treated in a comprehensive way. This puts into practice the WHA Resolution 62.12, urging member states “to encourage that vertical programs, including disease-specific programs, are developed, integrated and implemented in the context of integrated Primary Health Care”