Strategic health infrastructure investments to support universal health coverage

Strategic health infrastructure investments to support universal health coverage

Investing in clean, safe, agile and environmentally friendly health infrastructure can help achieve universal health coverage (UHC), restore trust in public services, and promote social and economic development. Policy-makers are faced with investment decisions today that will strongly impact health systems economic sustainability and capacity to respond to technological changes, epidemiologic trends and a variety of shocks, ranging from climate-related hazards and epidemics to population shifts and financial crises. Sound planning processes and programmes are needed to retrofit, refurbish and maintain health facilities, aligned with other interventions such as the development of health and care workers.

UHC/Life Course EXDGO (UHA)