Webinar

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

Summary

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.

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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START DATE: August 25, 2023
Start time: 10:00
End time: 12:30

Presenter and Moderator

Natalia Houghton
Specialist in Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Systems and Services, PAHO/WHO
Shams Syed
Special Programme for Primary Health Care, WHO (TBC)
James Fitzgerald
Director, Department of Health Systems and Services, PAHO/WHO

Speaker

Katherine Rouleau
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Sergio Minué
Professor, Andalusian School of Public Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Primary Health Care
Patricia Castillo
Health Director at Renca municipality, Chile; epresentative of the Executive Committee of the Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities Movement of the Americas (HMCC)
Ernesto Báscolo
Unit Chief, Primary Health Care and Integrated Service Delivery, PAHO/WHO
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