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Doctors newspaper online, 01.07.2019
G20
At their meeting in Osaka, the G-20 leaders promise further strategic aid to the Congo in the fight against the Ebola epidemic. Antimicrobial resistance and life with dementia were also on the agenda.
By Matthias Wallenfels
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OSAKA. Global access to quality-assured medical care, the fight against infectious diseases, and effective crisis and pandemic management, not least in view of the current Ebola epidemic in Congo, were all on the G20's agenda this weekend in Osaka, Japan -Gipfels.
And all of them also found their way into the final statement of the meeting in which, at least on the part of the international media, the US-China trade war – and thus the bilateral meeting of Presidents Trump and Xi – as well as the plot the occupation of the high-ranking EU posts and, of course, Chancellor Merkel's state of health were the focus of interest after two public trembling attacks.
As the G20 clarifies in their final statement, they see health as a prerequisite for sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
However, with health care systems facing increasing cost pressures around the world in the face of population growth, there is no getting away from digital and other innovative health technologies for effective and efficient care for all people around the world, according to the consensus. The keyword here is Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Health Action Plan to Provide Impetus
Important impulses are expected from the summit participants of the "Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-Being for All" initiated by Chancellor Angela Merkel among others. This is to achieve the health-related goals of the "2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" adopted by the UN General Assembly in in 2015.
At the institutional level, within 15 years, all people worldwide will have access to family planning and reproductive health services, and reproductive health will be transferred to national strategy programs.
In addition, epidemic diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and Ebola are to be eradicated by 2030. The action plan will be presented at this year's UN General Assembly in the context of the high-level UHC meeting.
As stated in the G20 Final Declaration, with regard to the importance of sustainable health financing, states are calling for closer cooperation between financial and health authorities, especially in developing countries.
Allowing People to Live Healthy and Active
Another focus of the G20 was on unspecified policies to strengthen health promotion, prevention and the control of communicable and noncommunicable diseases to help more and more people achieve healthy and active aging.
The vehicle for this should be patient-centered, multisectoral, communal, integrated concepts, which – in line with the respective demographic development of the state in question – accompany people through all stages of their lives.
They also want to implement a comprehensive set of health policies as a response to the growing global prevalence of dementia. The aim is also to improve the living conditions of dementia patients as well as carers.
Cooperation in Pandemic Management
The summit participants from Osaka sent a clear message to countries that are potentially affected by Ebola outbreaks and other epi- or even pandemics. The G20 member states, they say, want to improve health service response planning in their own ranks.
It is not only about strengthening one's own capacities, but also about supporting affected countries in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) international health regulations.
Explicitly, the G20 address the current Ebola outbreak in Africa – and promise both financial and technical support, with WHO co-ordinating aid. [PandemicEmergencyFinancingFacilityPandemic Emergency Financing Facility created by the World Bank in collaboration with WHO after the devastating Ebola epidemic in West Africa in the middle of the decade for poor countries; PEF), the final declaration states that work continues on sustainable and efficient financing mechanisms to combat global health emergencies.
As the G20 Agriculture Ministers emphasized in Niigata in May summit participants in Osaka now pleaded for the cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary "one-health approach" and antibiotic resistance in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. To pursue stewardship programs.
The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Development Hub research initiative calls on the G20 to identify and report on the best models in the fight against resistance as a basis for further G20 AMR strategies.
At least symbolically, Osaka is not the worst place to pave the way for innovative technologies and approaches to health care systems worldwide. Because in old Japan, when Osaka was still called Naniwa, the port there served as a central point of contact for foreign visitors – and they often brought along new, innovative technologies that the Japanese liked to adapt.
We updated and renewed the article on 01/07/2019 at 16:14.
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