The Region needs resilient and sustainable health systems to ensure universal health. Policies are needed to promote health and well-being, reduce inequities, and achieve SDG 3 in an unfragmented way.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated public health challenges. It is necessary to adopt an approach based on the determinants of health and promoting health equity.
Countries in the Americas Region have improvements in potentially avoidable premature deaths. But social inequalities in health are reflected across the Region.
