Presentation delivered during the segment “Setting the scene for the panel debate: Key defining moments of global health – perspective from a young doctor” in "Global Health Beyond 2015: Engaging Students and Young Professionals Workshop” held last April 5, 2013 at the Swedish Society of Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden. Program at http://www.sls.se/GlobalHealth/Workshop-5-april/Programme/

1. The World’s Health
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Renzo Guinto, MD
Member of the Youth Commission
Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on
Global Governance for Health

3. From Prof. Ron Labonte

6. The Constitution of WHO, 1948
“a state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity… a fundamental human right”

7. Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, 1948
Article 25
“Everyone has the right to a
standard of living adequate for the
health and well-being of himself and
of his family, including food,
clothing, housing and medical care
and necessary social services, and
the right to security in the event of
unemployment, sickness, disability,
widowhood, old age or other lack of
livelihood in circumstances beyond
his control.”

8. Alma Ata Declaration, 1978
“The Conference strongly reaffirms
that health…is a fundamental
human right”
“The existing gross inequality in the
health status of the people
particularly between developed
and developing countries as well
as within countries is politically,
socially and economically
unacceptable”

9. Alma Ata, 1978
The International Conference on Primary
Health Care calls for urgent action by all
governments, all health and
development workers, and the world
community to protect and promote the
health of all the people of the world by
the year 2000.

10. Selective Primary Health Care

11. World Development Report, 1993
“Investing in Health”
Examined the interplay
between human health,
health policy and economic
development

12. Millennium Development Goals
eradicate extreme improve maternal
poverty and hunger health
achieve universal combat HIV/AIDS,
primary education malaria and other
diseases
promote gender equality ensure environmental
and empower women sustainability
reduce child develop a global
mortality partnership for
development

13. Commission on Macroeconomics
and Health, 2001
Health is a creator and
pre-requisite of
development
Extending the coverage
of health services and a
small number of critical
interventions to the
world's poor could save
millions of lives

14. “Unequal distribution of
health-damaging
experiences is not in any
sense a ‘natural'
phenomenon, but is a
result of the toxic
combination of poor
social policies and
programs, unfair
economic arrangements
and bad politics.”
WHO Commission on Social
Determinants of Health, 2008
Photo: WHO/Chris Black

15. Basic question: What good does it do to treat
people’s Illnesses …
only to send them back to the conditions
that made them sick?

17. Health Systems Strengthening

18. Universal Health Coverage

19. "Universal coverage is the ultimate
expression of fairness."
"Universal coverage is the single most
powerful concept that public health has
to offer."
Dr. Margaret Chan
WHO Director-General
65th World Health Assembly 2012

20. Rio+20

21. Health in the Post-2015 Agenda

22. Questions for the Future
New philosophy, revisiting the mission
Lessons from the past to create a positive future
Most important challenges in global health beyond 2015
Implications for education and research
Role of young people and students
Encouraging multi-sectoral response for global health

23. "Medicine… has the
obligation to point out
problems and to attempt
their theoretical
solution…The physicians
are the natural attorneys
of the poor…”
Dr. Rudolf Virchow
Father of Social Medicine

24. "Health is not everything,
but without health
everything is nothing."
Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher

26. Beyond 2015...
HEALTH FOR ALL!