PROTECTING AND INVESTING IN HEALTH AND CARE WORKERS; A RESOUNDING MESSAGE AT THE 75TH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
United Health Futures SA
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In this year’s 75th World Health Assembly, one of the most critical resolutions passed was to invest in the health and care workforce as part of Agenda item 15 on human resources for health. The resolution emphasizes four domains: preventing harm, providing support, inclusivity, and safeguarding the rights of health workers.?
The essence of the resolution is to enhance, protect and optimize the distribution, utilization, and deployment of the health and care workforce-particularly the employment, participation, and inclusion of women and the youth across all levels. #WHA75 Provisional agenda item 15 has more https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA75/A75_13-en.pdf
The resolution aligns with the United Health Future team’s focus on #EqualPay4All, which recognizes women’s enormous contribution to health and ensures gender equity in remuneration and placement in leadership roles in the global health workforce.
Read more about why gender equality in health matters in this blog by Ivan Maslyankov here