The Special Programme on Primary Health Care (SP-PHC) works to achieve healthy lives and well-being for all by building people-centred, resilient and sustainable PHC-based health systems that uphold the right to health, promote social justice, empower individuals and communities and address the determinants of health.  The SP-PHC offers an agile, integrated platform to connect WHO’s three billion strategic priorities (healthier populations – universal health coverage – health emergencies) as well as Country Office, Regional Office and Headquarters work on PHC. 

The SP-PHC serves 5 core functions:

  1. Country impact - provides a one-stop mechanism for PHC implementation support to Member States, thus putting into action the Operational Framework for PHC.
  2. Evidence and innovation - produces PHC-oriented evidence and innovation, including measuring PHC progress, with a sharper focus on people left behind, while ensuring technical coherence and conceptual clarity on PHC-relevant global goods.
  3. Policy and partnership - promotes PHC renewal through advocacy and partnership with stakeholders at global, regional and country levels.
  4. Systems governance and stewardship – provides guidance on the governance tools and arrangements that are needed to strengthen health systems and steer them towards health systems goals and approaches including UHC and PHC.
  5. Health systems resilience and essential public health functions – supports countries in building resilient health systems by embedding essential public health functions within PHC-oriented health systems.


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