Building a global community of shared future free from poverty

• 作者: Jay Pan Chu Chen Yili Yang
• 来源期刊: 全球健康杂志（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: SPECIAL ISSUE ON GLOBAL HEALTH AID FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION
• 页码范围: 113-115
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Poverty alleviation has been highlighted as one of the essential as-pects of global development.It has consistently ranked as the top pri-ority among a list of sustainable development goals proposed by the United Nations.1 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedentedly challenging climate for the global econ-omy,society,and populations worldwide,which has consequently in-tensified socioeconomic inequities among different population groups,especially for the poor and vulnerable.In 2020,global extreme poverty rose for the first time over the past 20 years under the impact of COVID-19,which resulted in an additional 120 million people living in poverty(1.90 USD/day),with the total number of impoverished residents ex-pected to reach approximately 150 million by the end of 2021.2 Such a changing climate has posed a huge obstacle to efforts to alleviate global poverty in terms of improving the affordability,accessibility,adaptabil-ity,and equity of medical services for impoverished populations.Under such circumstances,a sustainable strategy for health poverty alleviation needs to be urgently identified and adopted via global efforts to build a global community with shared future free from poverty.