5054.0 Strengthening Health Systems in Developing Settings 2

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session investigates the challenges surrounding the process of health systems strengthening from decentralization in the Philippines to health reform in Armenia.
Session Objectives: * Describe the components of an integrated model of health systems reform. * Identify best practices in improving access and quality of health care through an integrated, multi-sectoral approach to health sector reform. * Identify the need for appropriate local resource allocation for effective health care decentralisation
Moderator:
Thomas Hall

8:30am
Health Reform in Armenia: An Integrated and Synergistic Model
Richard Yoder, PhD, MPH, MPIA
     
8:48am
Creating partnerships for change: Improving access and quality of healthcare through an integrated multi-sectoral approach to health sector reform in West Bank and Gaza
Wafa Shikaki, MA, Damianos Odeh, PhD and Daoud Abdeen, MD, MPH
                    
9:06am
Devolving Health Care in the Philippines: The context-dependence of decentralisation and health care reform
Paul Kadetz, PhD, MSN, MPH
     
9:24am
Financial Protection Effect of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme
Ha Nguyen, Yogesh Rajkotia, PhD and Hong Wang
     

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Social Work, Vision Care Section

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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