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March 19, 2021 Global

Engaging and empowering people and communities, Strengthening governance and accountability, Reorienting the model of care, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

Universal access to healthcare: lessons learned from Public-Private Partnerships

In response to the global pandemic, International Financing Institutions and governments mobilized significant amounts of financial resources. COVID-19 hit weak and under-funded public health systems around the world harder, and showed market failure in private healthcare: we need to draw lessons and look forward. This interactive session will look at the impacts of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector, including World Bank Group-supported projects, especially for women and the poorest communities. This session will share evidence-based views on the World Bank Group’s role in health systems strengthening to understand the extent to which it is addressing the most ...

24/03/21 - 24/03/21 Virtual Belgium

Jan. 15, 2021 Europe Global

EHMA value-based primary care executive workshop

The European Health Management Association (EHMA) is hosting a two-day executive workshop on value-based primary care, on 15-16 February 2021. The workshop will discuss the latest frameworks and experiences on how primary care is evolving in the ever-changing healthcare systems and how services/management adapted to take into consideration the new reality created by COVID-19.

Comparison of experiences from different countries will be discussed, with a specific focus on the Catalan case of CASAP and the Italia Lombardy Region reform based on proactive population health management, Chronic Related Groups (CReGs) and individual care contracts.

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15/02/21 - 16/02/21 ONLINE None

Jan. 18, 2021 Europe Global

Patient Empowerment: An introduction. Patient Empowerment Mini-Series with CEmPaC

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Empowerment for Health as ‘a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health. Empowerment may be a social, cultural, psychological or political process through which individuals and social groups are able to express their needs, present their concerns, devise strategies for involvement in decision-making, and achieve political, social and cultural action to meet those needs.’

This Patient Empowerment Mini-Series, aimed at health and social care workers and service leads, presented by the International Foundation for Integrated Care, IFIC Ireland, in partnership with the Centre for Empowerment of People ...

28/01/21 - 28/01/21 ONLINE Ireland

May 4, 2020 Global

Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

Despite medical and technological advances, half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health services, and over 8.9 million preventable deaths occur every year. There is an acute global shortage of health workers, a gap that will grow to 18 million by 2030. Studies show that training high-performing community health workers can help close these gaps and save more than 3 million lives annually.

In the past few decades, many community health worker programs across the world have demonstrated their ability to ...

4/05/20 - 31/12/20 Virtual United States

Dec. 9, 2020 Global

Primary health care: transforming vision into action

Marking the two-year anniversary of the Declaration of Astana, this event, hosted by WHO, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, brings together national experiences from across the globe to launch the operational framework and discuss its relevance for strengthening PHC both in the COVID-19 pandemic context and as part of building better.

Agenda:

11:00 – 12:00 Ministerial Plenary Session (streamed in the six UN languages)

Welcome & opening remarks - H.E. Alexey Tsoi, Minister of Healthcare of Kazakstan
WHO Remarks - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO
UNICEF Remarks - Dr Henrietta Fore, Executive Director
Presentation of PHC Operational Framework ...

14/12/20 - 14/12/20 Virtual Switzerland

Nov. 3, 2020 Global

ICOPH: 6th International Conference on Public Health 2020

ICOPH 2020 is a premier event that brings together 250+ academicians, public health specialists, health professionals, healthcare providers, researchers, scientists, policymakers, pharmaceutical developers, and health workers from countries around the world to present their latest research ideas, development, and applications in all areas of Public Health.

The key intention of ICOPH 2020 is to facilitate interaction and the exchange of knowledge and ideas across professional constituencies pertaining to all areas of public health. In addition, this gathering will help the delegates to establish research as well as to find international linkage for future collaborations in their career path.

Primary Health ...

23/11/20 - 24/11/20 Virtual Conference None

May 12, 2020 Global

Seventy-third World Health Assembly (WHA73)

The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board.

This year, the 73rd World Health Assembly is held virtually in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

A reduced (de minimis) meeting was held on 18-19 May 2020.

The resumed WHA73 will take place from 9-14 November 2020.

You will be able follow proceedings on WHO webcast.

All documents can be found on the main documents page for the WHA73.

9/11/20 - 14/11/20 Geneva Switzerland

Oct. 28, 2020 Western Pacific Global

Towards an Australian Declaration on Integrated Care: Aligning finances and incentives

One of the keys to successful integrated care programs are financing and incentive arrangements that directly promote integrated care provision. Moreover, that these incentives are collective – in other words, how both financial commitments and gains are shared between care organisations and participating professionals. The ability to align financial incentives is a global issue but especially so in Australia where financial flows are highly fragmented. This webinar seeks to examine the challenges that misaligned finance and incentives bring and the potential solutions. The webinar will conclude with a discussion forum that seeks to establish the key messages that policy makers need ... Read more

29/10/20 - 29/10/20 Melbourne Australia

July 29, 2020 Global

Integrated Care in Latin America, cornerstone of the new reality: Atención Integrada en Iberoamérica piedra angular de la nueva realidad

In this webinar hosted in Spanish, we want to identify and share emerging integrated care practices to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ibero-America, as well as discuss new opportunities in the integration of health services and systems in the future.

Wednesday August 05/Miércoles 05 de Agosto
Hora: 11:00 h (Costa Rica) 12:00 h (Colombia, Mexico), 13:00 h (Bolivia, Chile), 14:00 h (Argentina, Uruguay), 19:00 h (España)

La actual pandemia de COVID-19 ha impactado rápidamente nuestras vidas, particularmente, está creando un desafío sin precedentes para nuestros sistemas de salud y ...

5/08/20 - 5/08/20 Virtual Costa Rica

June 8, 2020 Global

Global COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Impact Grant (Global Co-RIG)

The Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine (Besrour Centre) at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), thanks to the generous support of the CFPC’s Foundation for the Advancement of Family Medicine (FAFM) and the Fondation Docteur Sadok Besrour, is seeking proposals for a Global COVID-19 pandemic innovation response.

The initiative is a response to how the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting the health and economic well-being of nations. There are more than six million cases, and more than 370,000 deaths, worldwide.

* The response to such a threat must be rapid and effective to minimize the harmful impact ...

8/06/20 - 8/06/20 Virtual Canada