Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Since the initial years of the Group of 20 G20 Summit, experts have awaited its high-level, concrete commitments to global health [ 1 , 2 ]. As the meeting was the first important one on global health after the United Nations High-Level Meeting on UHC in September, the Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to achieve UHC by and agreed on the direction of specific policy measures toward achieving this goal.
Ahead of the G20 Summit in June, McBride and colleagues pointed out that G20 health agendas lacked greater commitment to equity [ 5 ].
Additionally, the importance of building human resources to develop health policies was stressed in the deliverables. Naturally, frontline officers have significant requirements to practically implement high-level messages, and they were verbalized to expedite specific actions.
As Dieleman and colleagues mentioned, the G20 has a substantial role in developing assistance for health [ 7 ]. While the G20 and international organizations should help developing countries in need, their domestic financing also needs to be strengthened. Population ageing is a new challenge facing the G20 HMM.
Although Japan has always been at the forefront of the issue, it has now become a global agenda. The Ministers also stressed the importance of multi-sectoral policy responses to dementia, such as promoting risk reduction and offering inclusive environments, by developing national action plans that have not yet been implemented by all the G20 members.
