The document, "The Future We Want," endorsed by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) Rio+20, affirmed the intrinsic relationship between health and sustainable development.  Over time, it has become much more evident to PAHO that health plays an integral role in the context of sustainable development-as a prerequisite, an outcome, and an indicator-and this recognition has helped to shape the Organization's commitment to advancing strategic and implementation priorities such as the achievement of equitable universal health coverage and the strengthening of intersectoral collaboration for health, among others, in further alignment with the urgent needs expressed within the UNCSD outcome document.