Person-centred care planning as foundational to clinical practice

The World Health Organization recently issued new guidance and technical packages for community mental health services, entitled “Promoting Person?Centred and Rights?Based Approaches”. As these documents make clear, within the sphere of mental health, the provision of person?centred care is itself an issue of human rights. This is not only true in the cases of involuntary or coercive treatments – when precautions and oversight must be exercised to ensure preservation of dignity and respect under exceptional circumstances – but with regard to all forms of mental health care. All mental health care, including clinical practice, needs to be fundamentally re?oriented toward the protection and extension of each individual's right to self?determination. Re?oriented, that is, to preserving the person's integrity as an individual while facilitating and promoting the person's pursuit of his/her own unique life goals.

Universal health coverage is a matter of equity, rights, and justice

The Coalition of Partnerships for Universal Health Coverage and Global Health calls on all countries to urgently reinvigorate progress towards health for all.

At the High Level Political Forum in July and the three UN High-level meetings on health, upcoming in September, 2023, all countries must recognise that progress in providing tuberculosis care, strengthening pandemic preparedness, and delivering the human right to health through universal health coverage are interrelated goals, requiring a concerted focus on the most vulnerable and marginalised populations.