Health where resources are the binding constraint.
9 topics · 10 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
Declaration of Alma-Ata
International Conference on Primary Health Care · 1978
Declares primary health care, not hospital-centred specialist medicine, the route to health for all, and commits governments to it as a matter of…
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
The Sphere Project · 2000
Sets out minimum technical standards for water, sanitation, shelter, food and health care in humanitarian crises, translating the right to a life…
+5 more at this level
10 works
International Conference on Primary Health Care
Declares primary health care, not hospital-centred specialist medicine, the route to health for all, and commits governments to it as a matter of social justice.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Sets disease-specific elimination targets for the group of infections that persist precisely because they attract too little research funding relative to their burden.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Tracks malaria cases and deaths worldwide and argues that progress against the disease has stalled since 2015 even as funding rose, because of resistance, conflict and climate disruption.
link checked 17 Sept 2026WHO & UNICEF
Shows that billions still lack safely managed water and sanitation, and argues current rates of progress will miss the 2030 universal-access target by a wide margin.
link checked 17 Sept 2026The Sphere Project
Sets out minimum technical standards for water, sanitation, shelter, food and health care in humanitarian crises, translating the right to a life with dignity into measurable targets that agencies are held to during a disaster response.
WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
Argues that investment in health in poor countries is not a drain on development but a precondition for it, estimating that closing gaps in basic health coverage would pay for itself many times over in economic growth.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Defines six building blocks - service delivery, workforce, information, medical products, financing and governance - that together constitute a health system, giving a fragmented field a shared framework for diagnosing where a system is failing.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Argues every country can move toward universal health coverage by pooling funds and removing point-of-care payment, regardless of its income level.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Countdown to 2030 Collaboration
Argues that further gains in maternal and child survival now depend on reaching the poorest and most marginalised populations, not on new interventions.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Richard Skolnik (YaleCourses)
Argues that the global burden of disease is dominated by a small number of tractable conditions, and that outcomes turn on health systems and financing more than on clinical advances.
link checked 17 Sept 2026