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What are the solutions for achieving sustainable and effective Universal Health Coverage?
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Social security is more than just a safety net against the vagaries of life, such as unemployment, illness or disability. It is also a key instrument for redistributing wealth, playing a major role in combating poverty and strengthening the social fabric. It is also an essential bulwark against economic, health or climatic crises, ensuring the resilience of populations and the stability of economies. Find out more about the experiences and solutions offered by the speakers in this #RDV!
Social Security: Panorama
Social security is a tool for harmonious economic and social development.
The Covid-19 pandemic has had profound and multiple consequences for people, their health, their activities and their incomes, underlining the importance for countries to have a social security system in all its dimensions, starting with health cover. Today, 34% of the population has no access to health cover, according to figures published in the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) World Social Protection Report 2020-2022.
Yet Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is one of the targets that the countries of the world set themselves when they adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. UHC is listed as a sub-indicator of MDG 3; 3.8: ‘Ensure that everyone has access to basic sanitation’.
However, each country must face up to changing healthcare challenges: stagnating birth rates and an ageing population, increasing prevalence of extremely costly chronic non-communicable diseases (diabetes, hypertension, cancer, chronic end-stage renal failure, psychiatric conditions, etc.), implying profound changes in the way healthcare services are delivered.
While these transformations require the involvement of all of the region's economic forces, the ability of governments to master these issues and respond to them also has a major impact on people's confidence in the system and their support for it.
So how can we achieve universal social security, and how can we ensure that such a reform is effective and sustainable?
Our experts explored the issues of universal health cover and the sustainable financing of social protection through a series of fascinating discussions.
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