World Health Organization
Experience: 3 to 5 Years
Skill Required: Project and Program Management
Apply By: 09-05-2024
The overall goal of the Department of UHC/Health Systems is to strengthen health systems in ways that accelerates progress efficiently and equitably towards universal health coverage (UHC) and other health-related Sustainable Development Goal targets, promotes health, and advances health security. This is done inter alia through the following strategic directions:1. Building back better health systems in the backdrop of COVID-19 based on a strong primary health care foundation for resilience and rapid progress towards UHC.2. Strengthening primary health care systems and integrated services as well as adapting primary care services to changing needs, backed up by appropriate care at the secondary and tertiary levels, with attention to safety quality and equity - includinggender;3. Systematically addressing social, economic, environmental and commercial determinants of health through evidence-informed public policies and actions across all sectors to advance health for all;4. Empowering people, families, and communities to take control of their health, as advocates for policies that promote and protect health, as co-developers of health and social services through social and community participation, and as self-carers and care-givers to others; and5. Ensuring people's main health problems are addressed through comprehensive promotive, protective, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative care throughout the life course, strategically prioritizing key services aimed at the population (e.g., public health functions) and personal services (e.g., integrated primary care) as the central elements of integrated service delivery across all levels of care.
Duties:
Under the overall guidance of the Director, Department of UHC/Health Systems and the direct supervision of the Coordinator - Integrated Health Services, Department of UHC/Health Systems the incumbent will carry out the following duties:
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Source: https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2403110