Video: Dr Emma Iriate of Salud Mesoamerica 2015 on Health Equity

EU Dev Days Lab Session on Right to Health: What About It Equity? featured panelist Dr Emma Iriate of Salud Mesoamerica 2015.  She promotes that:

• Better equity in health can help the expansion of universal health coverage as a right.
• This is not just an issue for the health services, but requires an ‘all-government’ approach.
• The approach post-2015 must be inclusive, multisectoral, cross-governmental, integrated and comprehensive.
• Efforts should focus on the poorest – the lowest 20 % of the population.

She provided capacity4dev.eu with her insights: