‘Health for All: Society approach to enhance health ecosystems’

‘Health for All: Society approach to enhance health ecosystems’

KUWAIT: WHO Kuwait hosts multi-stakeholder strategic dialogue on achieving “Health for All; a whole of society approach to enhancing health ecosystems” on December 14th, 2022. Achieving the targets of Thirteenth General Program of Work (GPW13) to ensure health and wellbeing for all, requires that all aspects of society get involved in building the health ecosystem. WHO has a longstanding, multifaceted collaboration with Kuwait aimed at improving health outcomes both domestically and globally.

In Kuwait, the Ministry of Health leads this domestic ecosystem by defining health and wellbeing targets in line with Kuwait’s national development plan, as well as regional and global health targets.  Ensuring that this ecosystem can achieve Kuwait’s health targets, requires establishing the right multi- sectoral mechanisms and policies that will enable whole of society involvement and coordination. Outside Kuwait, WHO works with Kuwait Fund to bolster health ecosystems by providing critical support to countries to plug systems gaps and save lives. These combined efforts reflect Kuwait’s commitment to health and improving the state of the world.

The “Health for All” multi-stakeholder dialogue is an opportunity to reflect on the positive impact of the WHO-Kuwait collaboration, as well as opportunities for the future. The event convened Government and industry leaders,