Executive Overview
Progress towards meeting the triple billion targets, a milestone to the Sustainable Development Goals
The world is off track to reach most of the triple billion targets and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. However, with concrete concerted action to accelerate progress, a substantive subset of them could still be achieved.
Impact on the ground
How WHO is achieving impact where it matters most
- Improved access to quality essential health services irrespective of gender, age or disability status
- Countries enabled to provide high-quality, people-centred health services, based on primary health care strategies and comprehensive essential service packages
Working together
Explore the progress
Safe and equitable societies through addressing health determinants
Tackling inequalities and strengthening societies amidst COVID-19 recovery.
Recognition is growing of the importance of the “upstream” determinants of health worldwide that can lead to health inequalities. “Upstream” determinants include or result in social, environmental and economic conditions in which people are born, grow, learn, live, work and age, such as policies in other sectors than the health sector. Efficiently combating those upstream causes is of prime importance to create healthier populations and release the pressure on health care. Furthermore, the health inequities resulting from these causes adversely affect the economic and social development of communities and countries as a whole.
Success will also require that COVID-19 responses – at both global and national levels – include the determinants of health at the core of both the response and recovery phases, in line with the WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19. The COVID-19 crisis has shown that people will support even difficult policies if decision-making is transparent, evidence-based and inclusive and has the clear aim of protecting their health, families and livelihoods.
