Universal Health Coverage and Environmental Health: An Investigation in Decreasing Communicable and Chronic Disease by Including Environmental Health in UHC

Haider, Muhiuddin; Bibb, Katrina

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“…A total of 83 percent of deaths are mediated by environmental factors. Carcinogenic chemicals can now be found at every level of the food chain, in soils, groundwater and the air, and are widespread in a myriad of household and personal care products to which are exposed every day (Haider and Nibb 2017).…”

Section: Global Health Policies-an Apology For Environmental Degradat...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dependence on out-of-pocket payments (OOPs) for services, together with the introduction of regressive financing mechanisms, constitutes a barrier to access to needed care and generates problems of financial protection. Every year, more than 100 million people throughout the world end up in poverty as a result of direct spending on health care (Haider and Nibb 2017).…”

Section: The Impact Of Global Health Policies On Health Service Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the Context of Global Health Policies

Sen¹,

Qadeer²,

Missoni³

2022

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The systemic inadequacies of models of health systems propagated by the advocates of global health policies (GHPs) have fragmented health service systems, particularly in middle- and lower-income countries. GHPs are underpinned by economic interests and the need for control by the global elite, irrespective of people’s health needs. The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the advocates of GHPs, leading to calls for a movement for “decolonisation” of global health. Much of this narrative on the “decolonisation” of GHPs critiques its northern knowledge base, and the power derived from it at individual, institutional and national levels. This, it argues, has led to an unequal exchange of knowledge, making it impossible to end decades of oppressive hegemony and to prevent inappropriate decision-making on GHPs. Despite these legitimate concerns, little in the literature on the decolonisation of GHPs extends beyond epistemological critiques. This article offers a radically different perspective. It is based on an understanding of the role of transnational capital in extracting wealth from the economies of low- and middle-income countries resulting in influencing and shaping public health policy and practice, including interactions between the environment and health. It mobilises historical evidence of distorted priorities underpinning GHPs and the damaging consequences for health services throughout the world.

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Section: Global Health Policies-an Apology For Environmental Degradat...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Impact Of Global Health Policies On Health Service Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Context of Global Health Policies

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Qadeer²,

Missoni³

2022

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“…Every year, more than 100 million people end up in poverty as a result of direct spending on health care (Haider and Nibb 2017). When in need, people without guarantees of access to care tend to turn to the much more expensive hospital emergency services.…”

Section: Determinants Affecting the Financing Of The Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, it affects all age groups and almost all countries, with a much greater impact in poorer countries, which are experiencing an epidemiological transition with a double burden of disease, i.e., both infectious diseases and chronic non-communicable diseases. Three quarters of deaths from chronic diseases are recorded in low-and middle-income countries (Haider and Nibb 2017).…”

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Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being

Neupane¹,

Nygård²

2022

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Global Health Determinants and Limits to the Sustainability of Sustainable Development Goal 3 by Eduardo MissoniThe Agenda 2030, signed by the Heads of State and Government in 2015, set out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, for each of them, a number of targets to be reached within the next 15 years, with a total of 169 targets. SDG 3, "ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all at all ages", provides, among others, Goal 3.8 "achieving universal health coverage, including protection of financial risks, access to quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all". Agenda 2030, unlike the global agenda for the previous fifteen years, which focused on the so-called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), mainly concerning the poorest countries, involves and commits all governments to the adoption of "indivisible" and universal goals that will help to end poverty by 2030 "once and for all", and also brings the issue of development back to a global dimension. The~new agenda is not without contradictions. Among other things, it proposes, among its economic objectives, "sustainable, inclusive and sustained growth", an oxymoron that was pointed out at the beginning of the 1970s, when the Club of Rome showed the "limits of growth" in a finite ecosystem. Thus, the~challenge of sustainability is global and involves all national health systems. Using Universal Health Coverage, SDG 3's target, which seems to attract most of the attention, as the main focus, the~paper argues that SDG 3's feasibility and sustainability is highly dependent on transnational determinants which, if left unregulated by appropriate global governance processes, may jeopardize its attainment. Global determinants (international macroeconomic policies, migration, climate change, market forces, technological innovation, etc.) affecting health system functions (stewardship, resources generation, financing and the provision of services) are identified, and their impact analyzed. The~analysis provides suggestions for the identification of an urgent paradigmatic shift to ensure the effective sustainability of SDG 3 in general, and of universal health coverage (UHC) in particular. xii Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being: The Essential Role of Breastfeeding by Colin Binns, Mi Kyung Lee and Jane ScottThe world is facing unprecedented public health challenges, including changes, due to climate change, that will affect every continent, and limitations on global food and water supplies together with an increasing epidemic of noncommunicable disease. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, "good health and well-being", includes targets for child mortality, maternal mortality and reducing chronic disease. Breastfeeding is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions available for countries at all levels of development. In the first year of life, appropriate infant nutrition (exclusive breastfeeding to around six months) reduces in...

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Determinanti globali della salute e (in)sostenibilità dell'obiettivo di copertura sanitaria universale

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2019

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Universal Health Coverage and Environmental Health: An Investigation in Decreasing Communicable and Chronic Disease by Including Environmental Health in UHC

Cited by 3 publications

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Understanding the Context of Global Health Policies

Understanding the Context of Global Health Policies

Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being

Determinanti globali della salute e (in)sostenibilità dell'obiettivo di copertura sanitaria universale

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