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Bookmark or Share- Universal health coverage - World Health Organization (WHO)WHO’s work is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target 3.8, which focuses on achieving universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
- Emergency and critical care - World Health Organization (WHO)Emergency care is an integrated platform for delivering accessible, quality and time-sensitive health care services for acute illness and injury across the life course. Integrated emergency care services facilitate timely recognition, treatment management and, when needed, continued treatment of the acutely ill at the appropriate level of the ...
- Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime. This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people-centred rather than disease-centred. PHC is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.
- Sudan emergency - World Health Organization (WHO)Since April 2023, intense fighting in Sudan has led to violence leaving 11 million people in need of urgent health care. Insecurity makes the delivery of health care increasingly challenging. More than two thirds of all main hospitals in affected areas are out of service, with the ones still functioning at risk of closure due to shortages of ...
- Mental health in emergencies - World Health Organization (WHO)People with severe mental disorders are especially vulnerable during emergencies and need access to mental health care and other basic needs. International guidelines recommend services at a number of levels ̶ from basic services to clinical care ̶ and indicate that mental health care needs to be made available immediately for specific ...
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