United Nations SDGs
This global framework created by the United Nations includes 17 goals aimed at ending poverty, protecting the planet, and improving well-being by 2030.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
One country is frequently referenced as performing well in international health system rankings. (hint: think baguettes)
What is France?
This area of the health system focuses on how funds are collected, pooled, and used to pay for health services.
What is health financing?
Optimizing service delivery aims to improve how health services are designed, delivered, and measured.
What is service delivery?
According to the SDGs, this sector often called the “backbone” of universal health coverage emphasizes prevention, accessibility, and community-based care.
What is primary healthcare?
One high-income country is noted for spending more on health care while achieving relatively poorer outcomes.
What is the United States?
UHC requires that people receive needed services without experiencing this outcome.
What is financial hardship?
WHO emphasizes that high-quality care should be safe, effective, and centered on this group.
Who are patients(or people)?
This goal addresses plastic pollution, food waste, and unsustainable lifestyles by promoting a circular economy.
What is Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production)?
When experts compare health systems, disagreement often occurs because each expert emphasizes different evaluation criteria.
What are cost, access, equity, and quality?
Pooling funds helps protect people from this type of health spending.
What is catastrophic health expenditure?
Primary health care is emphasized as the most effective approach to achieving this global goal.
What is Universal Health Coverage (UHC)?
This organization promotes Universal Health Coverage by emphasizing quality care without financial hardship.
What is the World Health Organization?
Health systems cannot simply be copied from other countries because of differences in this factor.
What is national context (or culture or values)?
The UHC “cube” includes population coverage, service coverage, and this third dimension.
What is cost coverage (or financial protection)?
Between 5.7 and 8.4 million deaths each year are linked to this problem in low- and middle-income countries.
What is poor-quality care?
This SDG highlights that peace, justice, and strong institutions are essential foundations for sustainable development.
What is Goal 16?
Instead of ranking systems as “best” or “worst,” experts emphasize evaluating how well a health system aligns with the needs and values of the population it serves.
What is societal values (or population needs)?
(Acceptable: values, preferences, or priorities of a population)
Using limited health resources in a way that maximizes health outcomes reflects improvement in this key financing objective.
What is efficiency?
WHO promotes shifting health systems away from disease-centered models toward models designed around this.
What are people’s needs?