On 19 October, the WORLD Health Organization (WHO) released a position paper, Building health system resilience to Achieve UHC and Health security during COVID-19 and beyond, which systematically presents the rationale and seven policy recommendations for seeking to integrate UHC and ensuring health security to build resilience.
Learning lessons from COVID-19, countries should form ‘new normal’ for health policies and systems: WHO
The diversion of health system resources in response to COVID-19 has led to prolonged disruptions in essential health services, according to the World Health Organization. New barriers to demand for health care, such as restricted movement, reduced ability to pay and fear of infection, present additional and unprecedented challenges. Countries must build on the investments made and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to shape a “new normal” for health policies and systems.
File is put forward, to mankind COVID – 19 lessons are: one is that most of the national health system took only a few basic precautions to deal with more frequent but smaller events, led to the health system “complacent”, but not beyond the ability of emergency and its basic health service interruptions caused by adequately predict and plan; Many of these measures have created potentially significant disruptions to essential services and have exposed weak primary health care orientation in many systems, including decentralized care, hospital-centric systems, low levels of health literacy and a lack of effective health emergency management systems.
In addition, strict quarantine measures have had an economic impact, exposing and exacerbating pre-existing health and socio-economic inequalities. According to the International Labour Organization, 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy — nearly half of the global workforce — are at risk of losing their jobs. There is an urgent need for the global community to accelerate progress in building social protection packages to integrate universal health coverage into social protection systems and ensure financial protection and access to basic health services, employment and social benefits, leaving no one behind.
In addition, the macroeconomic and fiscal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to last for years, potentially threatening past progress towards universal health coverage. In response to the pandemic, countries have increased health and social spending at the same time as public revenues have fallen, leading to increased fiscal deficits and debt burdens. This could limit government spending on health. Protecting the poor’s access to health care and preventing economic hardship will remain key priorities.
Who recommends that immediate preparedness and response inputs need to be institutionalized and translated into early activities for longer-term recovery and transformation, ensuring that measures contribute to building capacity for longer-term emergency risk management and sustained delivery of essential health services, At the same time, we must strengthen the basic functions of public health in the health and the ability of public health professionals and its role in the risk and emergency management, ensure that you have a number and ability level enough multidisciplinary team and ensure their primary health care, human balance, to ensure that in maintaining the basic health services at the same time to effectively prevent and respond to emergencies.
