What this means from a broader perspective is that equity should always be at the centre of national and international policy agendas. Across the fields of healthcare, however, the promise implies that anyone anywhere should have access to the highest standards of health and health care, not just the wealthiest.
According to the World Health Organization’s latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics for 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health systems worldwide, in some cases severely curtailing access to vital services. These disruptions, the report says, are likely to set back global progress on both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy made in the first 20 years of the century.
Even more challenging is the impact of infrequent collaborative interprofessional communication on patient experience. Lack of knowledge and appreciation of the roles of other health professionals, barriers at team levels, and lack of clearly stated, shared, and measurable purpose are some of the factors hindering Interprofessional collaboration in the Nigerian healthcare sector.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)