Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO, Washington, DC, USA.
Division of Data Analytics Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, UNICEF, NY, New York, USA.
Int J Equity Health. 2022 Jun 14;21(1):83. doi: 10.1186/s12939-022-01682-9.
The Every Woman Every Child Latin America and the Caribbean (EWEC-LAC) initiative was established in 2017 as a regional inter-agency mechanism. EWEC-LAC coordinates the regional implementation of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), including adaptation to region specific needs, to end preventable deaths, ensure health and well-being and expand enabling environments for the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents. To advance the equitable achievement of these objectives, EWEC-LAC's three working groups collectively support LAC countries in measuring and monitoring social inequalities in health, advocating for their reduction, and designing and implementing equity-oriented strategies, policies and interventions. This support for data-driven advocacy, capacity building, and policy and program solutions toward closing current gaps ensures that no one is left behind. Members of EWEC-LAC include PAHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN WOMEN, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, USAID, LAC Regional Neonatal Alliance, and the LAC Regional Task Force for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality. To date, EWEC-LAC has developed and collected innovative tools and resources and begun to engage with countries to utilize them to reduce equity gaps. These resources include a framework for the measurement of social inequalities in health, data use and advocacy tools including a data dashboard to visualize trends in social inequalities in health in LAC countries, a methodology for setting targets for the reduction of inequalities, and a compendium of tools, instruments and methods to identify and address social inequalities in health. EWEC-LAC has also engaged regionally to emphasize the importance of recognizing these inequalities at social and political levels, and advocated for the reduction of these gaps. Attention to closing health equity gaps is ever more critical in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic which has exploited existing vulnerabilities. More equitable health systems will be better prepared to confront future health shocks.
每个妇女每个儿童拉丁美洲和加勒比倡议(EWEC-LAC)于 2017 年成立,是一个区域机构间机制。EWEC-LAC 协调拉丁美洲和加勒比(LAC)全球妇女、儿童和青少年健康战略的区域实施工作,包括适应具体区域的需求,以终结可预防的死亡,确保健康和福祉,并扩大妇女、儿童和青少年健康和福祉的有利环境。为了推进这些目标的公平实现,EWEC-LAC 的三个工作组共同支持 LAC 国家衡量和监测健康方面的社会不平等现象,倡导减少这种不平等现象,并设计和实施面向公平的战略、政策和干预措施。这种对数据驱动的宣传、能力建设以及政策和方案解决方案的支持,有助于缩小当前差距,确保不让任何人掉队。EWEC-LAC 的成员包括泛美卫生组织、艾滋病署、人口基金、儿基会、妇女署、世界银行、美洲开发银行、美援署、拉丁美洲区域新生儿联盟以及拉丁美洲区域减少孕产妇死亡率工作队。迄今为止,EWEC-LAC 已经开发和收集了创新工具和资源,并开始与各国合作,利用这些工具和资源来缩小公平差距。这些资源包括衡量健康方面社会不平等的框架、数据使用和宣传工具,包括一个数据仪表板,用于可视化 LAC 国家健康方面社会不平等的趋势、制定减少不平等目标的方法,以及一份确定和解决健康方面社会不平等的工具、手段和方法简编。EWEC-LAC 还在区域层面开展工作,强调在社会和政治层面认识到这些不平等现象的重要性,并倡导减少这些差距。在新冠疫情大流行背景下,缩小卫生公平差距的工作显得更加重要,这场大流行利用了现有的脆弱性。更加公平的卫生系统将更好地为应对未来的卫生冲击做好准备。