The Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030: A Call to Action for Health and Wellbeing in the Americasrepresents 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.
Expand equitable access to comprehensive, integrated, quality, people, family, and community-centered health services, with an emphasis on health promotion and illness prevention.
Achieve adequate and sustainable health financing with equity and efficiency, and advance toward protection against financial risks for all persons and their families.
Ensure access to essential medicines and vaccines and to other priority health technologies, according to available scientific evidence and the national context.
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.
Reduce inequality and inequity in health through intersectoral, multisectoral, regional, and subregional approaches to the social and environmental determinants of health.