As a community’s first & main contact with the health system, #PrimaryHealthCare must deliver health services people say they need, rather than services someone else decides they should have. Add your voice: www.PHCtoolkit.org #HealthForAll

Strong #PrimaryHealthCare is all about ensuring everyone can get the right care, at the right time, right in their community. Sound like common sense? That’s because it is. #HealthForAll

Whether you are a few days old, a teenager, a working adult, or reaching your older years, strong #PrimaryHealthCare can address the vast majority of your health needs across your lifetime. #HealthForAll Join the conversation: www.PHCtoolkit.org

Reminder: #PrimaryHealthCare is not just about visits to a health centre. It is about creating healthy environments to live in, helping people take ownership of their health & building systems that everyone, everywhere, can rely on. #HealthForAll

When health systems fail, societies cannot reach their full potential. But when people have access to quality, affordable #PrimaryHealthCare, families are healthier, children can stay in school & adults can contribute to society. www.PHCtoolkit.org

Well-trained, well-paid health workers are the backbone of strong #PrimaryHealthCare. As sources of trusted care for millions of people, their voices & perspectives must be prioritized in the #HealthForAll movement. Join the conversation: www.PHCtoolkit.org

Ensuring strong #PrimaryHealthCare in every community is crucial for addressing today’s biggest global health challenges, from rising inequality & risk of pandemics, to threats accelerated by climate change. Let’s work together for #HealthForAll.

When disease or disaster strike, our health systems must be ready. Often, this isn’t the case. Strong #PrimaryHealthCare can help prevent, detect & respond to health threats, saving lives and livelihoods along the way. www.PHCtoolkit.org #HealthForAll

In 2018, no one should die from a preventable infectious disease. By ensuring #PrimaryHealthCare delivers life-saving vaccines & quality medicines to all, we can make these diseases history. Now is the time to demand #HealthForAll, everywhere.

With consistent, quality care, many NCDs are preventable, manageable or treatable. Too often, weak #PrimaryHealthCare systems are not equipped to keep people healthy across their lifetime. A successful #HealthForAll agenda includes creating plans to #BeatNCDs in every country.

1 in 4 of us will suffer from a mental illness at some point in our life. Far fewer will seek or find treatment. Strong #PrimaryHealthCare helps fight stigma & myths around #MentalHealth at the community-level, while bringing quality, affordable care within everyone’s reach.

In a world where conflict and displacement are on the rise, it is unacceptable that anyone fleeing war or disaster could be denied the health care they need. Refugees, migrants & internally displaced persons must be protected & prioritized. #HealthForAll. www.PHCtoolkit.org

When a child gets sick, no parent should have to worry about whether they can access or afford quality care. Strong #PrimaryHealthCare helps protect children everywhere from disease & ill health—but only if countries ­⬆️ investments & action for #HealthForAll.

Getting information or health care should not cost anyone their savings, safety or dignity. Strong #PrimaryHealthCare ensures everyone can access a range of #SRHR services in their community, from modern contraception to routine blood tests to maternal health services.  

We are more likely to achieve universal health coverage than ever before. To succeed, we need strong #PrimaryHealthCare that is: trusted ❤️ + affordable 💰 + close to home 🏡 for everyone. #HealthForAll

Health is a human right, no matter your gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, age or citizenship. Strong #PrimaryHealthCare ensures every community can get the health services they need, without discrimination or financial hardship. #HealthForAll.

FACTS: girls & women:

• Bear the greatest burden in almost every disease & disaster

• Represent the majority of educators, health workers & caretakers worldwide

• Have the right to strong, affordable #PrimaryHealthCare that puts their needs & experiences first.

When half the world’s population lacks access to essential health services & 100 million people are driven into poverty paying for health each year, there is no time to lose in the fight for #HealthForAll. We must act now. Add your voice: www.PHCtoolkit.org

Every country, rich or poor, can invest more & smarter to reach all people with strong #PrimaryHealthCare, leaving no one behind. The cost of inaction is simply too great.

#PrimaryHealthCare is one of the most equitable, efficient & effective strategies to achieve universal health coverage & the health-related @GlobalGoals. But too often, it is the most overlooked & under-resourced part of a country’s health system. It is time to walk the talk.

40 years ago, leaders declared #PrimaryHealthCare a moral & strategic investment in #HealthForAll and the future we want. Now more than ever, we know this to be true. The question is: when will leaders follow through? #Astana2018

Today, leaders have the power to take #HealthForAll from rallying cry to reality. Progress depends on political action to strengthen #PrimaryHealthCare on the road universal health coverage, starting with those who need it most. #Astana2018