A/RES/67/81
Global health and foreign policy
Follow-up actions
24. Urges Member States 13 to continue to consider health issues in the
formulation of foreign policy;
25. Recommends that consideration be given to including universal health
coverage in the discussions on the post-2015 development agenda in the context of
global health challenges;
26. Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to consider the issue of
universal health coverage as part of its 2013 programme of work, with the
participation of the World Health Organization, the World Bank, other relevant
United Nations entities and other stakeholders, within existing resources;
27. Decides to continue consultations on the promotion of universal health
coverage, regionally and globally, including on the possibility of convening a highlevel meeting of the General Assembly;
28. Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director
General of the World Health Organization and with the participation of relevant
programmes, funds and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, and in
consultation with Member States, to give high priority to universal health coverage
and its links to social protection floors within their social programmes and policies;
29. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-eighth session, under the item entitled “Global health and foreign policy”, a
report which compiles and analyses past and current experiences of Member States
in the way they succeed in implementing universal health coverage, including links
to nationally determined social protection floors, and in sharing, establishing and
strengthening institutional capacity in order to generate country-level evidencebased policy decision-making on the design of universal health coverage systems,
including tracking the flows of health expenditure through the application of
standard accounting frameworks.
53rd plenary meeting
12 December 2012
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And, where applicable, regional economic integration organizations.