Wednesday, April 8, 2009

[EQ] Recordings: Health in times of global economic crisis - Oslo, Norway, 1-2 April 2009

Global economic crisis

 

Oslo, Norway, 1-2 April 2009


The global economic downturn occurs as the world is also confronted with the consequences of major demographic changes and global environmental and energy problems. The crisis therefore represents a major threat for both health and health and social protection systems.

 

            Link to recordings: http://www.smartcom.no/who/who_eng_001.html

 

Links to materials, conference programme and the webcast can be found at

url: http://www.euro.who.int/healthsystems/econcrisis/20090316_1

 

Objectives: 

 

- to review the situation in the WHO European Region by identifying the main risks for health and health systems and the main opportunities for action;

- to discuss policy options for responding to the negative impacts of the economic crisis on health systems and
  health outcomes in low-, middle- and high-income Member States in the European Region;

- to identify health- and health systems- related measures that could be used in the short and medium terms
  to counter the economic downturn and, in the longer term, to help address (some) structural issues confronting our societies.

 

 

 

 

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

 

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

 

13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and opening

Objectives and scope of the meeting

Mr Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, Minister of Health and Care Services

Dr Marc Danzon, WHO Regional Director for Europe

Message from the WHO Director-general Dr Margaret Chan

 

Session 1: Impact of the economic downturn on health systems and health outcomes in the Member States in the WHO European Region

The ongoing financial and economic crisis: main effects on society and on health systems

Chair: Dr Marc Danzon, WHO Regional Director for Europe

Opening speech by Mr Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Keynote speakers:

Prof Alan Maynard, Professor of Health Economics, University of York

Prof Guillem López-Casasnovas, Professor in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

and Member of the Board of the Bank of Spain

Prof Tomica Milosavljevic, Minister of Health of Serbia

 

Chair: Dr Bjørn-Inge Larsen, Director-General, Norwegian Directorate of Health

Keynote speaker:

Prof Sir Michael Marmot, Director, International Institute for Society and Health and MRC

Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College

London, United Kingdom

 

Thursday, 2 April 2009

 

Session 2: Strengthening health and health systems in the context of the crisis

The Millennium Development Goals in the light of the ongoing economic crisis

Message from Mr Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway

Financial and human resource aspects of the crisis; effects on the migration of health personnel

Chair: Prof Elias Mossialos, Director, LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

 

Keynote speakers:

Mr Philippe Douste-Blazy, Chair of the Executive Board of UNITAID

Mrs Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative and Co-chair, Health Workers Global Policy Advisory Council

09:50-10:30 Panel with representatives of Member States

10:30-11:00 Debate and conclusions moderated by Prof Elias Mossialos

11:30-11:50 Protecting public health through strengthened health systems in the European Region

Chair: Dr Bjørn-Inge Larsen, Director-General, Norwegian Directorate of Health

 

Keynote speaker:

Prof Martin McKee, Research Director, European Centre on Health of Societies in

Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

 

Session 3: Strategies to overcome health consequences of crisis

14:15-14:35 Chair: Dr Nata Menabde, Deputy Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe

 

Keynote speaker:

Mr Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, Minister of Health and Care Services

14:35-15:20 Panel with partners’ representatives

15:20-16:00 Recommendations of the meeting. Final remarks and closure

Dr Bjørn-Inge Larsen, Director-General, Norwegian Directorate of Health

Dr Marc Danzon, WHO Regional Director for Europe

 

 

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