Dr. Margaret Chan
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the world, under the circumstances now out of balance in matters of health is out as never before. This year’s World Health Report supports my conviction. Thirty years ago, in this city, the Declaration of Alma Ata Primary Health Care began as the path to health for all. This was a deliberate effort to tackle very large and large avoidable differences in health status of populations. The explanation put health equity on the international political agenda for the first time why was this so important? What is health equity? It means that people do not access should be denied life-saving and health-promotion intervention for unfair reasons, including those with economic or social causes. Just been given: equity in health is of life-undtodbedeutung. Global health has progressed remarkably in the last three decades. On average people now live seven years longer. But if you look at individual countries or populations within countries, you get a very different picture. There are gaps in health outcomes within and between countries, vastly larger than 1978th Exceed the differences in life expectancy between the richest and poorest countries 40 years. Annual government expenditure on health ranges from as little as U.S. $ 20 per person to more than U.S. $ 6000 Never before has our world possessed such a sophisticated arsenal of tools and technologies for curing disease and prolonging life. Yet every year, can, almost 10 million young children and pregnant women cut their life by large avoidable causes. Something is wrong.
A world that is great out of balance in matters of health out, is neither stable nor secure. Ladies and Gentlemen, The world health report looks at the way health care is organized in countries around the world, financed, managed and delivered. They found striking differences in health outcomes, access to care, and what people pay for care. She looks at the causes. Many problems arise from the way health, diesysteme be organized and how resources are managed for health. The report documented these problems in detail. All too often people who are well off and generally healthier with the best access to the best care you have, while the poor are left to fend for themselves. Some of the largest waste and inefficiency occurs when health is treated as Handelsgebrauchsgut on to be bought and sold at will, assuming that market forces are somehow self-adjust in order to iron out any problems. This is rarely done. What you see instead of unnecessary tests and procedures, more and longer hospital stays, higher costs and the exclusion of people who can not pay. If the emphasis is placed on specialized or made commercially care providers have no incentive to invest in prevention. This is a failure with very large consequences. WHO estimates that better use of existing mass 70% of the global disease burden could prevent as much as. Ladies and Gentlemen, The World Health Report sets out a better way to manage and deliver health care.
