ASEAN Health in the post-2015 development agenda

Abstract

Assembly resolution 67/81 in achieving provision of universal health coverage and improved health outcomes; Recognizing the importance of strengthening health systems and building capacities for broad public health measures, health protection and addressing determinants of health towards attaining equitable universal coverage; Emphasizing that policies and actions in sectors other than health have a significant impact on health outcomes and vice-versa, hence the need to identify synergies between policy objectives in the health and other sectors through a whole-of-government, whole-of-society and Health in All Policies approach to the post-2015 development agenda; Reiterating its determination to take action on social determinants of health as collectively agreed in resolution WHA62.14; Recognizing the importance of strengthened international cooperation and honouring commitments towards national and international health financing, and ensuring that international development cooperation in health is effective and aligned with national health priorities; Recognizing that the monitoring of health improvement should include measuring health system performance as well as health outcomes that capture healthy life expectancy, mortality, morbidity and disability; Recognizing the importance of the health workforce and its essential contribution to health systems functioning and the need for continued commitment to relevant Health Assembly resolutions, in particular WHA63.16 on the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, 1. URGES Member States, 1 in the context of health in the post-2015 development agenda: (1) to engage actively in discussions on the post-2015 development agenda, respecting the process established by the United Nations General Assembly; (2) to ensure that health is central to the post-2015 development agenda; (3) to ensure that the post-2015 development agenda will accelerate and sustain progress towards the achievement of health-related Millennium Development Goals including, child, maternal, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; (4) to recognize that additional attention needs to be paid to newborn health and neglected tropical diseases; 1 And, where applicable, regional economic integration organizations.