[EQ] Evidence for health-system reform: Global Lessons based on National Experiences

Conference: Evidence for health-system reform: Global Lessons based on
National Experiences

Website:
http://www.salud.gob.mx/pagina_principal_2005/archivos/conf_int_prog_activid
ad_minist.pdf

October 4–6, 2006, the Mexican Government, in collaboration with The Lancet,
will be hosting a joint Ministerial and scientific conference to review,
evaluate, and draw lessons from health reforms.

To document some country experiences of health-system reforms as they have
great global relevance to policymakers struggling to adapt to profound
development, demographic, and disease transitions; to distil more widely
applicable lessons, and to propose interventions that could protect and
advance the health of vulnerable peoples worldwide. MailScanner has detected
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Lancet.com Vol 368 July 1, 2006

Paper: Bridging the divide: global lessons from evidence-based health
policy in Mexico
Frenk J
The Lancet - Vol. 368, Issue 9539, 09 September 2006, Pages 954-961
Summary | Full Text

“…..During the past 6 years, Mexico has undergone a large-scale
transformation of its health system. This paper provides an overview of the
main features of the Mexican reform experience. Because of its high degree
of social inequality, Mexico is a microcosm of the range of problems that
affect countries at all levels of development. Its health system had not
kept up with the pressures of the double burden of disease, whereby
malnutrition, common infections, and reproductive health problems coexist
with non-communicable disease and injury. With half of its population
uninsured, Mexico was facing an unacceptable paradox: whereas health is a
key factor in the fight against poverty, a large number of families became
impoverished by expenditures in health care and drugs. The reform was
designed to correct this paradox by introducing a new scheme called Popular
Health Insurance (Seguro Popular). This innovative initiative is gradually
protecting the 50 million Mexicans, most of them poor, who had until now
been excluded from formal social insurance. This paper reports encouraging
results in the achievement of the ultimate objective of the reform:
universal access to high-quality services with social protection for all…..”
(AU)

            Content:

Summary - New dynamics of poverty and health

Empowerment through evidence

>From evidence to action

Entitlements and priorities

Searching for the diagonal

Protecting investments in prevention

Healthy policies

Global public goods for local decision-making

The ABCDE of successful reform

            Conference Program in Spanish:

            Programa Versión preliminar sujeta a cambios

Foro Ministerial: Evidencias para la Reforma de los Sistemas de Salud:
Lecciones Globales a partir de experiencias nacionales

Octubre 5 y 6, Mexico – 2006

Website:
http://www.salud.gob.mx/pagina_principal_2005/conferencia_internacional.html

Sesión Inaugural:

Ponente: Dr. Julio Frenk Mora

Moderador: Richard Horton (The Lancet)

Sesión 1. Rectoría efectiva como resultado del fortalecimiento de los
ministerios de salud

Moderador: Dr. Guillermo Soberón (pc) y Dr. Harvey Fineberg (NIH)

Sesión 2. Diseño de paquetes de servicios de intervención e integración de
prioridades específicas

Moderador: Dr. Cristian Baeza (Banco Mundial)

Sesión 3. Acceso a medicamentos esenciales

Moderadores:

Dra. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Ex Ministra de Finanzas de Nigeria)

Dr. Jesús Reyes Heroles (StructurA)

Sesión 4. Fortalecimiento de los recursos humanos en el contexto de
reformas.

Moderador: Dr. Haile Debas (UC San Francisco)

Sesión 5. Vinculación de la salud con otras metas sociales y económicas y el
cumplimiento de los objetivos del Milenio

Moderadores:

Dra. Flavia Bustreo (Banco Mundial)

Embajador Carlos Elizondo Mayer (pc)

Sesión 6. Evaluación y Monitoreo

Moderador: Adam Wagstaff (Banco Mundial)

Sesión 7. Cooperación Global para la generación de evidencias: el caso del
programa de control de enfermedades

Moderadores:

Sir George Alleyne (OPS)

Dr. Jaime Sepúlveda (SSA)

Sesión 8. El papel de las instancias no gubernamentales en el desarrollo de
evidencias para la reforma

Moderadores:

Lic. Xochitl Gálvez (pc)

Dr. David de Ferranti (Brookings Institute)

Los paneles cuentan con la participación de delegados de los siguientes
países:

Afganistán, Australia, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Guyana, Jamaica,
Japón, Kenia, Namibia, Portugal, Ruanda, Sri Lanka, Surinam, entre otros.

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