Global Health: The Twenty-First Century Global Health Priority Agenda

Editorial: Transforming Global Health, Global Health Education, Infectious Disease, and Chronic Conditions in the 21st Century

“…These factors, which are usually beyond Editorial: Transforming Global Health individual control, are now well recognized and form the basis of the historic WHO resolution on noncommunicable diseases and the high-level UN meeting scheduled for September 2011: "[T]he Resolution and the High Level meeting will place chronic diseases at the center of other development and health initiatives, including the need to strengthen health systems, the focus on prevention and control of disease, and the importance of whole-government approaches" to global health. 32 Both infectious diseases and chronic conditions (including mental health and cancers) require a robust and functioning health system to provide continuity of care through all stages of life, and primary health care within an integrated health system has been determined to be an indispensable point of entry for coordination of preventive, promotive, equitybased, quality affordable care.…”