Wellness Week 2023 Launch Event - September 11, Monday, 12.30 ET

Place: Bogotá, Colombia
Time: 11:30 am (Bogotá) - Washington DC 12:30 pm - Brasilia, Buenos Aires 1:30 pm.
Broadcast: PAHO TV

Context

Wellness Week 2023, under the slogan The Care We Need, The Care We Want, seeks to generate awareness about care as a key element for health and well-being. This year, wellness week aims to rethink care to achieve more comprehensive and sustainable systems and a more equitable redistribution. Likewise, it seeks to raise awareness of the importance of a more intersectoral and participatory approach. Approaching care in this way will improve the health and well-being of all people since everyone needs care throughout their lives, especially women, since traditionally, all the burden has fallen on them, mainly among those in a situation of vulnerability.

Event

This year's launch event occurs in Bogotá, Colombia, one of the five cities participating worldwide in the WHO/PAHO global project on urban governance for health and well-being. Within this framework, the event brings together mayors from various countries of the Region of the Americas to discuss what care we need and whether current policies are managing to meet the expectations of the population.

Although the role of national governments in generating more sustainable and equitable care systems is indisputable, local governments, thanks to their closeness to the people, can be key actors responding to the specific needs of each context, listening, identifying the existing vulnerabilities in the territory, and according to their different competencies, implementing public policies that comprehensively address care.

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