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The Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030: A Call to Action for Health and Wellbeing in the Americas represents the health sector response to commitments endorsed by PAHO Member States in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together with unfinished business from the Millennium Development Goals and the Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017 and emerging regional public health challenges. It is operationalized through PAHO's strategic plans and strategies, as well as through subregional and national health plans.
The Agenda is approved by the Pan American Sanitary Conference and commits countries to pursuing 11 goals and 60 targets that will be used to measure progress toward those goals.
Goal 1: Equitable Access to Health Services
Expand equitable access to comprehensive, integrated, quality, people, family, and community-centered health services, with an emphasis on health promotion and illness prevention.
Goal 2: Stewardship and Governace
Strengthen stewardship and governance of the national health authority (ministries of health), while promoting social participation.
Goal 3: Human Resources for Health
Strengthen the management and development of human resources for health with skills that facilitate a comprehensive approach to health.
Goal 4: Health Financing
Achieve adequate and sustainable health financing with equity and efficiency, and advance toward protection against financial risks for all persons and their families.
Goal 5: Medicines, Vaccines and Technologies
Ensure access to essential medicines and vaccines and to other priority health technologies, according to available scientific evidence and the national context.
Goal 6: Information Systems for Health
Strengthen information systems for health to support the development of evidence-based policies and decision-making.
Goal 7: Evidence and Knowledge in Health
Develop capacity for the generation, transfer, and use of evidence and knowledge in health, promoting research, innovation, and the use of technology.
Goal 8: Outbreaks, Emergencies and Disasters
Strengthen national and regional capacities to prepare for, prevent, detect, monitor, and respond to disease outbreaks and emergencies and disasters that affect the health of the population.
Goal 9: Noncommunicable Diseases
Reduce morbidity, disabilities, and mortality from noncommunicable diseases, injuries, violence, and mental health disorders.
Goal 10: Communicable Diseases
Reduce the burden of communicable diseases and eliminate neglected diseases.
Goal 11: Health Inequalities and Inequities
Reduce inequality and inequity in health through intersectoral, multisectoral, regional, and subregional approaches to the social and environmental determinants of health.