Informe CEPAL-OPS: salud y economía: una convergencia necesaria para enfrentar COVID-19

La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) y la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) presentaron el informe conjunto Salud y economía: una convergencia necesaria para enfrentar la enfermedad por el coronavirus del 2019 (COVID-19) y retomar la senda hacia el desarrollo sostenible. El informe aborda la necesidad de tomar medidas de salud para aplanar la curva de COVID-19 y así reanudar la reactivación de la economía en los países de la región de las Américas.

Live: ECLAC and PAHO present joint report on health and the economy in the context of COVID-19

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) presented on Thursday, July 30, a joint report entitled Health and the Economy: A Convergence Needed to Address COVID-19 and Retake the Path of Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, in which they will address the need to take health-related measures to flatten the curve of COVID-19 and thereby resume the reactivation of the economy in countries in the Americas region.

Press briefing eclac and PAHO july 30, 2020

Exemplars in Global Health COVID-19 Webinar

On July 20, Exemplars in Global Health co-hosted its inaugural webinar in partnership with Amref Health Africa, the Center for Global Development, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The conversation featured global experts discussing best practices in COVID-19 response, takeaways from the collective response to date, and how critical learnings from successful country responses to COVID-19 and prior disease outbreaks could shape future response efforts.

Rapport du Forum Déliberatif de la note de politique relative aux stratégies damélioration des allocations budgétaires pour la santé au Burkina Faso

Du 19 au 20 janvier 2012, a eu lieu dans la salle de conférence du programme d'appui au développement sanitaire (PADS), le forum délibératif (dialogue politique) de la note de politique sur « les stratégies d'amélioration des allocations budgétaires pour la santé au Burkina Faso ¼. Il avait pour objectifs de: présenter la note de politique aux participants; recueillir les amendements nécessaires à l'amélioration de la note de politique; aire éventuellement le choix de(s) l'option (s) politique (s)adaptée (s); réaliser les évaluations y afférentes. Le forum a regroupé plus d'une vingtaine de participants représentant le ministère de la santé, de l'économie et des finances et de la société civile (ONG et Associations). Les participants sont venus des directions centrales, régionales, des hôpitaux, des centres de recherche en santé, des districts sanitaires, etc.

More money for HRH: more HRH for the money

Health costs are spiralling out of control all over the world in context of global financial crisis while some countries are still struggling to offer basic health services. The health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is most often unfunded, including the health workforce, which represents the single largest item in health budgets. On the other hand, countries do not meet the minimum health staffing levels to provide essential care.Ministries of Finance and Health need to jointly identify and allocate additional financial resources - for HRH - to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of current capital and recurrent expenditures

Funding health care: options for Europe

Health care systems face ever changing and often competing demands for resources. For a health care system to be sustainable it must be able to pay for investment in buildings and equipment, training and remuneration of personnel and for drugs and other consumables. How these financial resources are generated and managed ­ the process of collecting revenue and pooling funds ­ raises important issues for policy-makers and planners. This policy brief aims to summarise these issues from an international perspective and consider how funding systems can be designed in order to achieve policy objectives. It looks first at the different sources of revenue and then at the impact of different systems of funding on specific objectives related to social policy, politics and economics. Finally, it considers implementation issues and some of the wider dimensions that policy-makers need to consider.