A/71/304 Universal health coverage (h) Member States use the right-to-health framework to develop national plans to strengthen health systems and set priorities by addressing inequalities, which is the main goal of universal health coverage; (i) Member States invest in effective, transparent and accountable health-care systems, with a focus on primary health care and health promotion, and address imbalances and power asymmetries within and beyond health-care systems in all decisions aimed at reaching universal health coverage; (j) Member States fulfil immediate or core obligations under the right to health to guarantee access to health services without discrimination, and take deliberate, targeted and concrete steps to ensure the effective realization of this right, especially for the most marginalized; (k) Member States ensure that the focus on addressing financial exclusion does not neglect the equally important issue of discrimination on other grounds, such as race, colour, sex, religion, property, birth, physical or mental disability, health status (including HIV/AIDS), sexual orientation and gender identity, age and civil, political, social or other status; (l) Member States consider expanding the focus of investment in physical health and reduction of mortality, traditionally based on the classical determinants of health such as poverty, education, housing and water and sanitation, to address other determinants, including the quality of physical and psychosocial environments; (m) Member States ensure that the focus on access to essential medicines and other life-saving interventions does not neglect equally important non-biomedical interventions, including psychosocial interventions, that promote mental and physical health and well-being, reduce violence and contribute to the realization of the right to health and the Sustainable Development Goals; (n) Member States ensure that the focus on providing accessible and free health care for all and closing the treatment gap does not undermine the need to protect and monitor human rights in patient care, so that health -care services are free from discrimination and violence; Violence (o) Member States ensure political commitment at all levels to reach common understanding and agreement that all forms of violence, and not only the most severe ones, are not accepted and should not be tolerated, without any exceptions; (p) Member States ensure that health-related and other policies addressing violence do so by tackling all forms of violence, and avoid exceptions or selective approaches that condone or tolerate certain forms of violence; (q) Member States guarantee substantial investments in healthy human relationships, emotional and social well-being and social capital, starting from 16-13597 25/26

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