The health working group of the Countdown2015Europe has forwarded the attached recommendations to Swedish Government, as one of the co-chairs for the health consultation.
The recommendations include addressing the health needs of women and girls from the start; universal access to sexual and reproductive health rights as the fast way forward; and equal access and equal rights as the right thing to do. In the framing of the future agenda for health they point to the importance of maximizing healthy life expectancy; low levels of risk factors; universal health coverage; and paying more attention to measuring decreasing social, cultural and legal barriers and national policies that prevent equal access to health services.
The group also commented through the online consultation on the World We Want 2015 website, on the draft of the health report for the thematic consultation.