The Week in Headlines
This week's top stories from the World Health Assembly, the World Bank and Women Deliver
Governments around the world are engaging in serious political and technical discussions on how to expand health coverage. Still others are considering such reforms, but are struggling to navigate the legal, financial, and political frameworks of their countries to determine the best path towards universal health coverage (UHC).
Below is a list of UHC-related headlines from around the world for the week of May 27, 2013.
AfGH hosts an open dialogue with civil society on how to measure Universal Health Coverage
At the World Health Assembly last week, a move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was claimed, or at least referred to, by a majority of Member States addressing the assembly. For many Latin American, African and South-East Asian countries, including BRICS, the notion of universality is appealing because countries then determine for themselves health priorities, models of service delivery and the appropriate models of financing. The enthusiasm of these states for UHC is in contrast to the more tepid support in the outcome of the UN’s thematic consultation on health in post-2015 and the overall reluctance of the High Level Panel on the Post-MDGs to push strongly for UHC.
For many Civil Society Organisations, universality is a concept that has human rights at its centre. UHC is about ensuring that all people are covered for healthcare, including a continuum of care.
The post 2015 report issued at 19h GMT today!
The post 2015 report is going to be issued at 19h GMT today! You can get it at http://www.worldwewant2015.org/HLPREPORT
A stakeholder event, moderated by Femi Oke, enabling interaction with Panelists on the substance and recommendations of the report, will be held tomorrow, 31 May at 14h GMT.
This event will be live streamed via: http://webtv.un.org/ and www.worldwewant2015.org/HLPREPORT
Questions and comments to the event can be posted online via Twitter using #post2015hlp Reports of the event will be available on: www.worldwewant2015.org/HLPREPORT and http://post2015.iisd.org/
Social media updates from the event can be found via: @2015on @UNFoundation @WorldWeWant2015 @myworld2015
The Post-2015 African Health Agenda and UHC: Opportunities and Challenges
All African health economists, health policy analysts or those working in Africa or on research of relevance to Africa are invited to submit abstracts for the Third Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA). The conference will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from March 11-13, 2014.
Researchers and other actors are encouraged to submit abstracts on the post-2015 African health agenda, universal health coverage, or on any other interesting, innovative or topical African health sector or systems research. Proposals for organized sessions are also welcome from interested individuals or institutions.
Please see the full call for abstracts for more information. The submission deadline is August 31, 2013.
The Week in Headlines
UHC Forward's Weekly Roundup of Headlines from Around the Globe
Governments around the world are engaging in serious political and technical discussions on how to expand health coverage. Still others are considering such reforms, but are struggling to navigate the legal, financial, and political frameworks of their countries to determine the best path towards universal health coverage (UHC).
Below is a list of UHC-related headlines from around the world for the week of May 20, 2013. If you are viewing this on the web and would prefer to receive The Week in Headlines in your inbox every week, subscribe to the email edition.
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Increasing the use of evidence in the design and implementation of health financing reforms
This blog is co-authored by Gina Lagomarsino, Managing Director for Results for Development, and Simon Wright, Head of Child Survival for Save the Children UK
This week in Geneva, the global community has gathered for the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly. As we recently passed the 1000 day count down to the end of the current Millennium Development goals. The post-MDG framework is at the forefront of this year’s Assembly.
Over the past three years, UHC has been gaining traction as an overarching framework for the post-2015 development agenda. In 2010, The World Health Organization (WHO) published the World Health Report on Health Financing. In 2011, the United Nations passed a Resolution on UHC. In 2012, Thailand hosted the 2012 PMAC on UHC, and at last year’s WHA Dr.
New Resource! UHC Forward is pleased to announce the addition of the Equitable Health Financing tool
UHC Forward Save the Children UK announce new partnership on Universal Health Coverage
More than 3 billion people globally earn less than $2.50 per day.
The Week in Headlines
UHC Forward's Weekly Roundup of Headlines from Around the Globe
Governments around the world are engaging in serious political and technical discussions on how to expand health coverage. Still others are considering such reforms, but are struggling to navigate the legal, financial, and political frameworks of their countries to determine the best path towards universal health coverage (UHC).
Below is a list of UHC-related headlines from around the world for the week of May 13, 2013.
Accreditation: A continuous process for improvement
An interview with Dr. Kedar Mate, vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
A high-quality health system is defined by its cost-effectiveness, capacity to continuously learn from and prevent errors, and its commitment to the respect and dignity of the patients and families it serves.
Policymakers, payers, providers, patients and the public each have a role to play in achieving these goals; through collaboration, they can achieve an effective quality strategy that, combined with expansions in healthcare access, will achieve improvements in health outcomes.
Healthcare delivery systems must continuously improve to match the increased demand they face from patients.
The Week in Headlines
UHC Forward's Weekly Roundup of Headlines from Around the Globe
Governments around the world are engaging in serious political and technical discussions on how to expand health coverage. Still others are considering such reforms, but are struggling to navigate the legal, financial, and political frameworks of their countries to determine the best path towards universal health coverage (UHC).
Below is a list of UHC-related headlines from around the world for the week of May 6, 2013.