The pace and breadth of change has also increased the imperative to make access to new clinically relevant information open and immediately accessible to everyone.
As health care reform takes place and millions more begin seeking care, it is imperative to ensure access to longitudinal care sites designed for continuous disease management.
Adds Sirkin: China wants to be an investor, "not because it wants to invest, but it has an imperative to get access to resources and that is the best way".
In an interview with the Guardian, Lane Fox said that there was an economic imperative to widening broadband access because people can use the web to save money, find new employment opportunities and give themselves other benefits.
While it is our moral imperative to provide universal access to treatment, primary prevention is the only sustainable way to combat HIV/AIDS.
In the future, the tension between the political imperative to expand ART access and concerns about the quality of resulting care will no doubt persist, which will continue to drive task shifting policies and strategies.
Whilst there does appear to be a political commitment expressed for UHC, in reality it is difficult for policymakers to balance competing interests of the growing for-profit private sector (in most countries) and the moral imperative to ensure equal access to healthcare.
With the recent start of the school-year, the rebuilding of classrooms and distribution of educational materials are imperative to ensure children's access to education.
In these cases, urgent action is imperative to save lives, ensure access to safe water, adequate sanitation and hygiene, health, nutrition and to protect children against the worst forms of violence and abuse, and to provide children with education - even under the worst of circumstances.
