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Session: From Planning to Sustainability: Is the Journey Too Long?
4150.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
From Planning to Sustainability: Is the Journey Too Long?
This session provides insight into innovative models and tools for financing health care programs. Results can be used to promote managerial and institutional efficiency, increase funding diversification, develop strategic plans for financial sustainability, and track health care expenditures.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to describe how results from innovative models and the application of tools can be used for planning and implementing sustainable programs.
Moderator(s):Samir N Banoob, MD, DrPH
12:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
12:35 PMAn Atlas of Appropriateness of Hospital Admissions in the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy  [ Recorded presentation ]
Daniel Z. Louis, MS, Andrea Donatini, MSc, Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, Joseph S. Gonnella, MD, Carol Rabinowitz, Monica Fiorini, Marianna Rossi, Sabine Mall, Gioia Virgilio, Elaine J. Yuen, PhD, Vittorio Maio, PharmD, Francesco Taroni, MD
12:50 PMBusiness planning for social return on investment  [ Recorded presentation ]
Elizabeth M. Lewis, MBA, Fiona E. Nauseda, BA, Judith B. Seltzer, MPH, MS
1:05 PMLessons learned from the GAVI Financial Sustainability Plan 2003 review process
C. Natasha Hsi, MPH
1:20 PMComparative analysis of HIV/AIDS health care expenditures using the national health accounts framework: Findings from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia  [ Recorded presentation ]
Catherine Chanfreau, MD, MPH, Susna R. De, MSc, MPH, Tania Dmytraczenko, PhD, Gilbert Kombe, MD, MPH, Marie Tien, MHS
1:35 PMWithdrawn -- Decentralization and equity in a federal country: The argentinean case
Daniel A. Maceira, Ph D
1:50 PMConcluding Remarks
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:International Health
Endorsed by:Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA