Friday, September 18, 2009

[EQ] Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

Montreux, Switzerland  16-19 November 2010

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is an international collaboration based in WHO Geneva

            Announcement: http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/alliancehpsr_symposiumbrochure_2010.pdf

“….To share evidence, identify significant knowledge gaps, and set a research agenda that reflects the needs of low and middle-income countries.

 

The symposium will be dedicated to improving the scientific evidence needed by health policy-makers and practitioners to inform their decisions related to accelerating universal health coverage.

 

Achieving and sustaining universal health coverage requires attention to a broad range of issues that are central to health systems performance.

This includes drawing on the six interdependent health system building blocks
– finance, workforce, services, technologies, information, and governance –

and understanding how policies and programmes from within and beyond the health sector can be developed and implemented effectively, efficiently, and equitably.

 

Although universal health coverage is highly country and context specific, rigorous scientific research has the potential to generate evidence to inform better policy and practice within and across countries. For example, robust methodologies could be instrumental in identifying how the services for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, immunization and maternal and child health can be scaled up to reach the poor and disadvantaged more quickly and sustainably in low-income countries.

 

Similarly, prospective monitoring and evaluation of universal health coverage policies in middle-income countries can help to better target the vulnerable populations and make important mid-course corrections.

The specific objectives of the symposium are to:   

 

• share state-of-the art research on universal health coverage;

• develop a global agenda of priority research on accelerating progress towards universal health coverage;

• facilitate greater research collaboration and learning communities across disciplines, sectors, initiatives and countries;

• strengthen the scientific rigor of the field of health systems research including concepts, frameworks, measures and methods;

• identify mechanisms for strengthening capacities – individual, institutional and infrastructural
   – for research on health systems particularly in low- and middle-income countries.



 

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[EQ] Parallel trade and affordable access to medicines

Parallel trade and affordable access to medicines

Eurohealth Volume 15 Number 2, 2009 - 18 September 2009

Available online as PDF file [48p.] at:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/LSEHealthAndSocialCare/LSEHealth/documents/eurohealth/Eurohealth%20v15n2.pdf

- The effects of parallel trade on affordable access to medicines

“……  A stylised demand curve for patented medicines in the EU was constructed and the price and availability of medicines were predicted by comparing the situation in which prices converge with differentiated prices.

Parallel trade causes prices of patented medicines to converge. A single EU price would reduce both the numbers of patients with affordable access to patented medicines and profits by about 25% compared to optimally differentiated prices.

The best option from the point of view of health care policy would be to prohibit the repackaging of medicines and require traceability throughout the supply chain.

This paper is based on research commissioned by the EC to help assess the impact of policy options…”

By Dermot Glynn, Chairman of Europe Economics, London, United Kingdom.

Also in this issue:

- The growth of voluntary health insurance in Denmark;

- Improving efficiency of allocating public funds to pharmaceuticals:
- A pilot study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;
  Snapshots (Belarus primary care, Poland legal restructuring of the economy of hospitals, Italy’s new fiscal federalism);

- Health impact assessments: is the environment a model?;

- European Parliament report on palliative care;

- Health information technology in the United States;

- Evidence informed decision making articles.

Editorial Team

Editor: David McDaid

Founding Editor: Elias Mossialos

Deputy Editors: Sherry Merkur - Philipa Mladovsky

Assistant Editors: Azusa Sato - Lucia Kossarova

Editorial Board:

Reinhard Busse, Josep Figueras, Walter Holland, Julian Le Grand, Martin McKee, Elias Mossialos



 

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[EQ] Call for innovative technologies that address global health concerns

Call for innovative technologies that address global health concerns

WHO Department of Essential Health Technologies

Website: http://www.who.int/medical_devices/call/en/index.html

31 January 2010- Deadline for submission of applications

“…..Medical devices are indispensable in health care delivery as tools for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. However, despite the exponential growth of scientific and technological development, availability of and access to appropriate and affordable health technologies in low- and middle-income countries are still insufficient.

One of the goals of the WHO Department of Essential Health Technologies is to help make available the benefits of core health technologies by developing a framework for health technology programmes and by challenging the scientific and business community to identify develop and/or adapt innovative technologies to address global health concerns.

The call for innovative technologies aims at identifying and evaluating innovative medical devices, either existing or under development, which address global health concerns and which are likely to be accessible, appropriate and affordable for use in low- and middle-income countries. …”

Eligibility and scope

Submission of applications

Screening and selection

Terms, conditions and disclaimers

Application form [doc 320kb]

Key dates

·         11 September- Opening date for applications

·         31 January 2010- Deadline for submission of applications

·         27-29 April 2010- Selection of applications

·         30 June 2010- Posting of selected technologies on the WHO website



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