| 26 Octobre 2012
Universal health coverage ensures that all people have access to needed preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services, while also ensuring those who use these services do not suffer financial hardship. Moving towards universal coverage requires a strong, efficient health system and financing.
Participating in this special symposium will be more than 1800 policy-makers, researchers and funders from across the world, tasked with identifying what works and what doesn’t, and the best types of research to support access to health services for all.
The Symposium is hosted by the Peking University Health Sciences Center, and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and BRAC University in Bangladesh.
WHEN: Wednesday 31 October – Saturday 3 November 2012
SELECTED SESSIONS:
- Achieving universal health coverage: learning from Chile, Japan, Malaysia and Sweden
- Reaching the poor through a government's pharmaceutical distribution system: the case of Kenya
- Achieving universal health coverage after donors leave: What are the funding options and challenges? Lessons from Indonesia
- Regulation, management and institutional arrangements for universal health coverage: where we are at and the way forward, comparing Brazil, South Africa, India, China,Thailand and Ghana
- Who benefits from government spending on care? A comparative study covering five continents
Health financing in post-conflict states: What do we know and what are the gaps?
THE CHINA EXPERIENCE: China is among the countries being highlighted as it undergoes a major health system reform:
- Migration and health in China, health challenges, knowledge gaps and policy implications
- Expanding coverage through new financing schemes and institutions
- Health financing reforms and their impacts: reflecting on gains and setbacks
- The dynamics of population ageing and lessons for health
- Access to pharmaceuticals among adults with cardiovascular diseases: an impact of the free medicine policy in rural Beijing, China
- Integrating tuberculosis control programs with China’s healthcare reform to achieve universal health coverage: a pilot experiment in rural China
WHERE: Beijing International Convention Center, No.8 Beichen Dong Road, Chaoyang District www.bicc.com.cn
