A Global Agenda for 2025–2028: Promoting, Delivering, and Protecting Health «Part Six»
Joint Outcome 3.2: Health and care workforce, health financing, and access to assured-quality health products significantly improved
Critical gaps in the health and care workforce by profession—including community health workers—will be identified and addressed through a comprehensive, long-term approach. This includes expanding education and employment in the health and care sector; addressing key skills shortages; using technology for training and certification; promoting multidisciplinary teams; ensuring adequate, safe, and healthy working conditions; tackling gender and other social inequities in distribution; attracting and retaining personnel (including through better understanding of values and motivations); and managing international migration ethically.
This work will also aim to meet the lifelong learning needs of the health and care workforce and recognize learning achievements. Special attention will be given to advancing gender equality and protecting health and care workers from gender-based violence and other forms of violence.
Efforts to track health financing relative to political commitments will be strengthened, particularly given recent negative trends in development financing. Evidence-based strategies will form the basis for promoting adequate, sustainable, effective, and efficient public financing for health that is aligned with national disease burden, complemented by strengthened national capacities for negotiating and managing the alignment of non-governmental financial flows with national priorities and plans.
Strengthening national regulatory capacities will also be supported. A comprehensive approach will evaluate and enhance access to safe, effective, quality-assured health products that are both affordable and acceptable, while contributing to local and regional resilience and self-reliance, including through geographically diverse, sustainable, quality-assured manufacturing capacity.
Joint Outcome 3.3: Health information systems strengthened and digital transformation implemented
Innovative approaches will be emphasized to strengthen data collection (across all levels of care), transfer, analysis, and communication at national and subnational levels, as these form the foundation of evidence-based decision-making for high-impact interventions. Special attention will be given to supporting countries in strengthening technical capacities and standards for data monitoring; improving civil registration and vital statistics systems; monitoring progress toward universal health coverage (including service safety and quality) and health-related Sustainable Development Goals; tracking and analyzing data gaps; integrating information systems and digital service delivery tools; and using electronic health records and facility reporting systems.
Disaggregated data will be produced to identify and monitor progress in reducing inequities and systemic and structural barriers, including gender- and disability-related barriers. Intersectional analyses will be promoted to address gender-related and other barriers more holistically.
Costed national strategies and action plans will be developed to guide digital transformation of health systems through robust digital public infrastructure and quality-assured digital public goods, while maintaining a people-centered approach. Countries will be supported to create an enabling environment and ecosystem backed by strong public-private partnerships, solid governance and regulation, data privacy policies, standards, data exchange, and open interoperability architecture.
Digital transformation will support the modernization and strengthening of data systems to enhance program effectiveness, real-time monitoring and early warning capacities, health system performance monitoring and decision-making, and essential system functions such as equipment inventory and maintenance management.
