Global Edition HIMSS23 At HIMSS23, European health ministers and top brass at the World Health Organization and U.S. Department of Defense discussed data-driven health equity efforts in an interconnected world – with a special message from the Ukrainian ambassador. Päivi Sillanaukee, ambassador for Health and Wellbeing in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland; Lester Martinez-Lopez, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense, and Hans Kluge, regional director for Europe at the World Health Organization at HIMSS23 on Thursday. Photos: Lotus Eyes Photography for HIMSS CHICAGO – "Without health there is nothing," said Hans Kluge, regional director for Europe at the World Health Organization, during the morning keynote Thursday at HIMSS23. For that fundamental reason, for more than 7.8 billion people across the globe, health equity is to at the heart of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , from which WHO makes its mission. But if the goal is "leaving no one behind," Kluge said that goal has still not been reached. Around the world too many people live in poverty and in substandard living conditions, too many still lack access to quality and timely healthcare. And many are being deprived of health […]
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