Washington D.C. 20 July 2023 (PAHO/WHO)– If the Americas is to reverse the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, nations should urgently establish and carry out main health care-based systems that think about the altering epidemiological contexts and population requirements of the 21st Century, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), stated today.
“We have actually simply gone through among the most terrible occasions in worldwide public health in the last century. The COVID-19 pandemic had an extensive effect on health and socioeconomic advancement worldwide and led to significant death in the Region of the Americas,” he stated throughout his remarks at the Primary Care International Conference in Washington D.C.
“I can not believe of a much better minute for us to take cumulative action on this problem.”
Throughout his intervention, Dr. Barbosa highlighted the concerns the Region has actually dealt with because acknowledging main healthcare as the primary technique to attend to health obstacles in the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration. These consist of years of absence of prioritization in health policy, inadequate allowance of resources in neighborhoods, and the advancement of hospital-centric designs of care. All of this “added to the concentration of health care far from the neighborhoods and individuals who required it most.