The Association of Certified Professionals in Optometry (APLO)In keeping with its mission in Portugal, it signed an open letter asking leaders of the 2023 United Nations High-Level Meetings to prioritize a primary health care approach.
“This letter, signed by more than 75 organizations from 30 countries, reiterates the call for leaders to consider universal health coverage and prevention, pandemic preparedness and response, and the 2023 midpoint for the Sustainable Development Goals.‘,” says Raúl de Sousa, President of APLO.
For decades, the world has made a comprehensive set of ambitious health commitments that promised a healthy future for all, but were not always fulfilled.
In this sense, prioritizing a primary health care approach is a necessary condition to be able to impact all societies and meet the vast majority of people’s health needs throughout their lives. It is essential to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging health threats, which continue to test our resilience, but it is also important to act on them through direct and appropriate solutions, policies and interventions, based on strong health systems, and equitably promoting greater social and economic well-being and prosperity. .
“This proposal to the United Nations suggests that we face the challenges of the future guided by distinguished action on 3 fronts:prioritizing people who are excluded by the system and not those who actually benefit from it; Ensuring high-quality health care for communities at the expense of demanding financial or personal sacrifices to achieve a healthy standard of living and, finally, conceiving primary health care as an investment – not a cost – to introduce flexibility among the pillars of global health systemsRaul de Sousa concludes.
This is a global, collected open letter urging UN leaders to make primary health care a slogan to change the present with lessons from the past, while emphasizing that future generations will thank us.
Open the message here: https://www.phc3for1.org/
For more information, see: www.aplo.pt
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