Financing of Primary Health Care and Integrated Services and Care: Challenges and Opportunities

Date: 
Friday, August 25, 2023
Time: 
10:30 a.m. (EDT)
Description: 

The evidence for the need to increase public investment in resilient health systems cost-effectively to improve household access and financial protection is overwhelming. The COVID-19 pandemic reinforced this reality by exposing the weak response capacity of health systems, bringing significant disruptions in the provision and availability of essential health services, exacerbating pre-existing access barriers and, therefore, inequities in access, mainly for the most vulnerable population groups.

Objective(s) of the meeting: 

This virtual seminar aims to promote debate, in the Region, on the PHC financing proposals issued by the Lancet Commission and the resolutions approved by PAHO member countries to strengthen the PHC approach and promote the integration of services and people-centered care from practice with a territorial vision.

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Speakers. Brief summary of the curriculum: 

Presentation and Introduction

  • Claudia Pescetto, Advisor, Health Economics and Financing, (PAHO/WHO) 

Main presentation: Results of the Lancet Commission 

  • Kara Hanson, Professor of Health Systems Economics and Dean, Faculty of Public Health and Policy - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine  

The Perspective of the Development Banks 

  • Moderation: Claudia Pescetto (PAHO/WHO) 
  • Ramiro Guerrero, Principal Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank 
  • Gianluca Cafagna, Health Specialist at the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank 
  • Kara Hanson, Professor of Health Systems Economics and Dean, Faculty of Public Health and Policy - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 

Countries vision: Experts panel 

  • Moderation: Juan Pablo Pagano Sansone, Specialist, Health Economics and Financing, (PAHO/WHO)  
  • Maria Angelica Borges Dos Santos, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, FIOCRUZ, Brazil 
  • Soledad Martínez, PHC Division Chief, Ministry of Public Health of Chile 
  • Magdalena Rathe, Fundación PLENITUD, Dominican Republic 

Integrative vision from PAHO/WHO

  • Teri Reynolds, Unit Chief Health Systems and Clinical Services, WHO
  • Ernesto Báscolo, Unit Chief, Primary Health Care and Integrated Services Delivery, PAHO/WHO

Closing remarks

  • James Fitzgerald, Director of Health Systems and Services, PAHO/WHO
Keywords: 
Primary Health Care, Health for All, Health Financing