All nations should have universal health care Op ed in the Washington Post by Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe and Director-General of the World Health Organization Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Prime Minister Abe of Japan and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus co-authored an op-ed in The Washington Post in which they called on the world to adopt universal health coverage.
The opinion piece cited momentum achieved in the past two years toward reaching UHC, including a declaration adopted by world leaders at the UN General Assembly in September of this year, as well as a similar resolution passed a month later by legislators from 140 countries at the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in Belgrade, Serbia.
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文章作者指出，“时不我待。
The co-authors wrote: “Time is short.
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2015年，世界领导人承诺根据可持续发展目标，到2030年实现全民健康覆盖。
In 2015, world leaders committed to achieving universal health coverage by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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仅剩下10年时间了。
With just 10 yearsremaining, the Universal Health Coverage Forum in Bangkok in January and the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit in December 2020 offer a vital opportunity to elicit concrete actions.
Specifically, we call on all countries to develop strong primary health-care-based health systems, to strengthen health financing and to invest in innovations related to health technologies and service delivery.”