# About the Health For All Initiative

Our desired impact across across Low- and Middle-Income Populations (LMIPs) is to create a strategic focus across the care continuum to reduce premature deaths, address access barriers, and enable healthy lives for all.With up to 80% of health outcomes driven by non-medical factors, all organizations can take a role to address social determinants of health, close health gaps, and enable better well-being and health for all.


## What is health for all?

In 1978, governments and health systems first adopted the term "health for all" to address the needs of people who didn't have access to primary care.   Since then, many programmes have flourished within the public and private sectors to close health gaps for countries and people everywhere. A person’s behavioral, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual health are essential to health and well-being. Environmental, social, and economic factors, in addition to traditional clinical care, are part of a holistic health ecosystem. According to Health Affairs, 70% of these health outcomes are due to drivers of health such as access to financial security, housing, and other social, economic, and environmental factors.


*Key metrics and counters*


## Why should businesses care?

Every organization has a role to play in generating better health and wellbeing for all.  A healthy society requires that each of us, and every organization, prioritize actions, products, programs, and policies that promotes wellbeing.  Every organization benefits from health, and every organization has a role to play in advancing health for all. This requires systemic change across four domains of action.


### Organization

Does our workforce have the benefits and services needed to be healthy?


### Offerings

Are our products and services leading to equitable outcomes and are we delivering services that generate health?


### Community

Do our community investments support local health priorities?


### Ecosystem

How effectively are we collaborating with partners to create opportunities for health?


## Engagement Tracks

How partners can work with the World Economic Forum to address the global NCD challenge through convenings, thought leadership, workshops, programmes, and funding the initiative for greater impact


### Building the Economic Case

Co-produce a new white paper to define a sustainable and scalable approach for why health systems and the private sector should address chronic diseases - starting with cardiometabolic health - and the associated future economic impact on society.

[WHO 2025 Resolution](https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_R11-en.pdf)


### Policy Dialogues

Host a series of high-level sessions with policymakers and senior business leaders to create alignment on a new global health architecture to sustainably improve health outcomes for chronic diseases, including a greater focus on prevention

[White Paper](https://www.weforum.org/publications/closing-health-gaps-a-guide-to-impactful-place-based-change/ )


### Coordinating Impact through Governance

Coordinate the impact that public-private partnerships can have from national programmes to community health by establishing governance boards with global, regional, or national priorities

[Launch Announcement](https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/news/nus-medicine-and-world-economic-forum-collaboration-highlights-singapore-as-first-healthcare-country-lighthouse/)


## Our vision for a healthier and more inclusive world

The Health For All Initiative aims to foster a world where everyone, regardless of location, income, or background, enjoys equal access to quality health, enabling better well-being and health outcomes for all.   We aim to improve the lives of vulnerable and neglected populations including children and families, people approaching retirement, and individuals working outside of corporate settings.For organizations,  mobilize executive leadership and commitment across sectors and geographies to prioritize health for all actions across  strategy and operations.   To join the movement, we invite you to sign the Zero Health Gaps Pledge.

[Sign the Zero Health Gap Pledge](https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-health-equity-network/pledge)


## Our journey to date

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## Timeline

*Chronological events and milestones*


## Part of the Centre for Health and Healthcare

The Centre for Health and Healthcare is committed to pioneering strategies that enhance global healthcare, ensuring the well-being of people across societies and nations.

[Discover more](https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home)


*Partner organizations and sponsors*