Webinar

Webinar: Financing primary care and integrated health care

Introduction Webinar

The Strategy for Building Resilient Health Systems approved by PAHO/WHO Member States recognizes the need for increased and sustained financing to help improve the resilience of health systems, based on the principles of universal health. It emphasizes the need to prioritize investments in the first level of care (FLC) because of its impact on the levels of access and coverage in the territories.

Public health budgets serve as a public policy mechanism where governments’ health priorities are reflected, the care model is articulated, and resources are reallocated in the face of emergency events such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

Summary

This webinar aims to follow up on the discussion on the financing of primary health care and to analyze the prioritization of PHC in public spending in selected countries.

Operational LevelModels of care| Purchasing and payment systems

START DATE: May 29, 2024

Start time: 16:30

End time: 18:00

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