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UN HLM on UHC Side Event
UHC and Communicable Diseases
: Tradition and Innovation
The role of physicians
and their professional organizations
In the realization of UHC
Yoshitake Yokokura, M.D.
President, Japan Medical Association
Immediate-Past President, World Medical Association
September 23rd
The Nippon Club, New York
Universal Health Coverage Forum 2017
Tokyo, Japan, December 13-14, 2017
Declaration of Support by Global Health Leaders
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MOU between WMA and WHO
a) The realization of UHC for All, with
special focus on the role of physicians
and their professional organizations.
b) Strengthening education, employment
and management of health workers.
c) Promoting actively health-related human
rights and to ensuring the full respect of
medical ethics.
d) Strengthening and developing systems of
emergency and disaster preparedness.
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on UHC and Emergency Disaster Preparedness
Geneva, Switzerland, April 5, 2018
Health Professional Meeting (H20) 2019
– Road to Universal Health Coverage –
Her Imperial Highness Crown
Princess Akishino
Prime Minister Abe
Minister of Finance Aso Minister of Health, Labour
and Welfare Nemoto 3
June 13th & 14th, 2019,
Hilton Tokyo Odaiba, Tokyo
If we want to achieve not just
healthcare coverage, but better
health for our populations, we
need to be taking action on the
social determinants of health.
I believe that participation of
medical associations in various
fields such as education and
nutrition, and their advocacy and
support of activities placing a high
value on human health will be of
great help in changing society.
Keynote Speeches
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Dr. Naoko Yamamoto:
Towards UHC-What we need?
Sir Michael Marmot:
Health Inequities and SDH
The session reaffirmed the need to strengthen existing
commitments of governments, non governmental bodies/ non
state actors (including the World Medical Association, National
Medical Associations, and other Health professionals) to UHC.
Session 1: How to achieve UHC?
Dr. Osahon Enabullele
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Disasters and disease epidemics are
major threats to the on-going efforts
to achieve UHC.
Controlling health threats can be a
contributor to achieving UHC, and
UHC can be a key to overcoming such
devastating health threats.
Dr. Masamine Jimba
Session 2: Health Security and UHC
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UHC/PHC is not only a technical
challenge, but its progress depends on
political process unique to the context
of each country and health system.
Medical professions have a crucial role
to play in health policy.
Session 3: Political Dimension of UHC
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Dr. Hiroki Nakatani
The chair closed the meeting with a quote, “If you
want to go quickly, you go alone. If you want to go
far, you go together”, in urging countries continued
progress towards UHC.
Session 4: Shared Responsibilities, Individual
Obligations towards UHC
Dr. Takeshi Kasai
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Memorandum of Tokyo
on UHC and the Medical Profession
UHC is a tool to overcome inequities in the health systems themselves.
l UHC is for people, but also by people.
l The WMA encourages physicians and their associations in all parts of
this world to play a profound role in the advocacy for and the realization
of UHC.
l We welcome the recent attention that G20 Finance Ministers give to the
development of UHC as a contribution “to human capital development,
sustainable and inclusive growth and development, and prevention,
detection and response to health emergencies, such as pandemics and
anti-microbial resistance, in developing countries.”
l We express our expectation to the G20 Summit that this inspires the way
to improved and sustainable investments in health care system not only
in G20 countries but also and most importantly in other economies,
which still invest insufficiently in their health care systems, irrespective
of the reasons for such shortfalls. 9
Thank you
for your attention!
NICHII-
KUN
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