WHO Council Reached a Consensus: Republic of Korea and United States Together With An Approach

The WHO council has far gone discuss the root causes to barriers of health care access, that includes insurance denials and systematic inequities. Their investigations have led to the triggers of insurance denials, solution based Social determinants of health (SDOH), and global health governance prioritisation. Each delegate has proposed and said their past actions, regulations, that can potentially be implemented into a new and systematic framework.

The Republic of France has shown a persuasive stance with their approach, by defining UHC, systematic inequity, identified barriers, and redefining barriers that refers to the key indicator factors from the WHO’s World Report. This advance managed to gather, at first, favors of the majority council member states. 

At first glance, France seems to dominate the council’s progress as to lead them towards their own key agendas on how to solve this issue. But by continuing the committee sessions, one motion that France had proposed which was the ‘Global Health Governance Prioritisation’ may have just divided more opinions after their proposal “France's global health governance priorities”  a "One Health" approach, and promoting a new, more inclusive global health architecture that received commentary from other delegates who expressed that France’s inclusivity does not include them.

However this excludes both the Republic of Korea and The United States as they go forward and have joined forces alongside the Republic of France. With their framework that supposedly applied to the other members of the same stances, which is the Community Diagnosis Approach.

This is a surprise approach that the Republic of Korea and The United States, who have left the WHO council, together have the same goals and ideals, despite the differences of their past actions together within a bloc that doesn’t show their actions as to what they prefer to say. The United States keeps on proposing these ‘solutions’ that when were asked about, they replied with unknown, unable to answer what solutions they were hoping for.

The Republic of Korea does not have the same past regulations with the other countries they stand with. This is worrisome, as to why they have joined stances with the ones that contributes what they call inclusivity, but do not include them. 

What concerns have France persuaded The republic of Korea that convinces them that their goals have aligned? Have The Republic of Korea ever had the same regulations and inclusivity the other members of the bloc do?