Today, 4.5 billion people globally still lack access to essential health services. Digital health transformation offers a unique opportunity to accelerate progress to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. Parliamentarians are crucial in creating an enabling environment for a sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and safe digital health transformation. This requires shared commitment and action, to ensure the appropriate legislative, regulatory, and funding environment for this to happen.
Recognizing this, UNITE and Transform Health have developed a Parliamentarians’ Toolkit on “Harnessing Digital Health for Universal Health Coverage”. This toolkit contains tools and resources to support Parliamentarians to champion digital health in global and national contexts, influence priorities, ensure robust legal frameworks for digital health, and ensure effective implementation of digital health transformation strategies, in support of UHC goals.
The toolkit includes:
Policy Brief – highlights “The Role of Parliamentarians in Supporting Digital Health Transformation” and the importance of digital health as a prerequisite for achieving UHC.
Parliamentary Questions – template questions that can be tailored and used by parliamentarians as relevant to their national context, to prioritize digital health transformation in their country.
Advocacy Letter – template letter that can be tailored and submitted to the Ministers of Health and/or other relevant government officials, to promote collaboration between governments and Parliamentarians in taking action to advance Universal Health Coverage in the digital age.
You can access the complete toolkit here.
