Second meeting of the Issue-based Coalition on Health and Well-being for All at All Ages: 19–20 September 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark

ABSTRACT

The second meeting of the Issue-based Coalition on Health and Well-being for All at All Ages (IBC-Health) was held at the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen on 19–20 September 2019. The purpose of the meeting was to review the progress of IBC-Health since 2018 and to develop a second joint work plan for 2020–2022. To facilitate the development of a joint vision and to identify workstreams and priorities for 2020–2022, IBC-Health revised the objectives in its terms of reference and the criteria guiding the identification and prioritization of areas for joint work, which now include addressing the burden of disease; leaving no one behind; cooperation to advance strategic and critical issues; and accelerate implementation by working together as one. Participants agreed to proceed with the previous workstream on coordination and the four technical workstreams (health over the life-course; communicable disease; universal health coverage, with a focus on medicines; and migration) and also to add two technical workstreams in the areas of primary health care and noncommunicable disease. The revised IBC-Health terms of reference and draft of the second IBC-Health work plan for 2020–2022 will be made available for further discussion and input at the next Regional United Nations System Meeting scheduled for November 2019.