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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
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