This social media kit provides materials to support social media engagement during the seventy-fifth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific. We encourage you to participate in the online conversation and share key content across your social media platforms.
Use your personal social media channels and your own words to:
- Share a personal story related to the key topics of #RCM75.
- Reflect on your experience at #RCM75 – don’t forget to use the hashtag so we can follow along! Tag @whowpro.
- Advocate for sustainable health financing in your country.
- Call for climate action to support climate-resilient health care facilities.
- Share a success story about digital health in your country.
- Emphasize the need for investment in people-centred primary health care.
- Tell us something about oral health and share your country’s experience.
Social media essentials
The official meeting hashtag is:
#RCM75
Other hashtags relevant for the discussions:
#HealthForAll
#PrimaryHealthCare
#OralHealth
#ClimateAction
Thank you for tuning in to the seventy-fifth session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific. Watch the video to catch the key moments from #RCM75! See you next year!
Digital health
- Digital health is rapidly advancing in the Western Pacific, yet its full potential remains untapped in many countries and areas.
- Challenges include governance, stakeholder complexity, financing, and data security. Strong governance is needed to create a solid foundation.
- Advancing people-centred technologies is key to improving health outcomes and expanding access for all. Strengthening governance, infrastructure, workforce capacity, and securing sustainable financing are essential.
- WHO works with countries to accelerate digital health transformation, aiming to achieve health for all.
Health financing
- Adequate health financing is essential to ensure that everyone can access healthcare without facing financial hardship.
- However, insufficient funding and policy gaps cause financial difficulties for millions of people in the Region.
- Emerging challenges—such as slowing economic growth, ageing populations, the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), threats to health security, and climate change—further threaten both population health and the financial sustainability of the health sector.
- Countries must take strategic action by increasing public funding for health, directing resources toward primary health care, protecting the most vulnerable populations, and financing health initiatives beyond the health sector.
- WHO supports countries in improving health financing to achieve health for all.
Primary health care
- By 2050, the number of people aged 60 and over in the Western Pacific Region will double, creating a significant shift in health care needs.
- Primary health care is the foundation of a strong health system, promoting more equitable health for everyone, everywhere.
- Countries must reform their primary health care systems to ensure integrated health service delivery. This requires increased investment, political commitment, and community engagement.
- WHO works with countries to develop policies and monitor progress towards achieving transformative primary health care.
Climate-resilient health care facilities
- Climate change affects health care facilities in multiple ways, disrupting their ability to serve communities.
- Extreme weather events disrupt food systems, spread diseases, and harm mental health—significantly increasing the burden on health care facilities.
- To build climate resilience, countries must assess their vulnerabilities, adapt, and develop climate-resilient, environmentally sustainable health care facilities.
- Implementing health national adaptation plans is crucial to strengthening these systems.
- These actions will enable health systems and facilities to better respond to disasters and health emergencies.
- Together, we can work towards a safer, more resilient future.
Oral health
- In the Western Pacific Region, more and more people are suffering from oral diseases such as dental caries, severe gum disease, tooth loss, and oral cancers.
- Most oral diseases are preventable, but high costs prevent many from accessing necessary oral health care.
- Countries must improve oral health governance and research, mobilize resources, and build partnerships to develop effective solutions. Engaging families, schools, and communities in promoting oral health is also essential.
- WHO supports countries in integrating oral health into universal health coverage to provide accessible and affordable essential oral health care for all.
