UHC watch – tracking affordable access to health care in Europe and central Asia youtube.com/shorts/VMZ40dV… a través de @YouTube
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Jorge Alejandro García MD
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Jorge Alejandro García MD
@docalejorgito
MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing LSE/LSHTM, Chevening Scholarship ⚕️🌎 Medical doctor and social entrepreneur 🇨🇴🇨🇴
Manizales, Colombia เข้าร่วม Ekim 2009
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Ahora en Bluesky. Sígueme y dime si estás allí //Now in Bluesky. Follow me and let me know of you're there
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What can countries do to make health care more affordable for people in Europe?
Join a webinar hosted by hosted by DG SANTE @EU_Health & #WHOBarcelona
📅Tuesday 4 June 2024
⏰ 10.00-12.00 CEST
Register now 👉 tinyurl.com/w4jun
#EUHealth #EUHPP @sarahmsthomson @joncylus
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Let's put the message clear out there. There is no evidence supporting using user charges as a good tool to rationing health care. They harm people! #WHOBarcelona #UHC @mylene_lagarde @sarahmsthomson @WHO_Europe
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Thursday 15 June, 1100-1230
Can Lisa afford to pay for medicines?
Speakers:
@TamasEvetovits @TayaraAl #WHOBarcelona
Gintaras Kacevicius National Health Insurance Fund #Lithuania
Kaija Kasekamp #Estonia
@nedamk @IAPOvoice
@smoldoisaeva @WHOKyrgyzstan
@drsarahgarner @WHO_Europe
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Drawing on evidence and good practice, we will explore key issues around #CoveragePolicy – the way in which health coverage is designed and implemented.
Connect online to:
• Explore what needs to change and why
• Learn from good policies to make progress towards #UHC
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Today! The #WHOBarcelona Forum on #FinancialProtection welcomes more than 100 international health financing experts from 35 countries in Europe. #UHC @WHO_Europe @sarahmsthomson
Live streaming 📹 lnkd.in/ecJjFUuB
Program➡️ bit.ly/3WWPKuE
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WHO officials have presented a report “Can people afford to pay for health care? New evidence on financial protection in Ukraine”
It is an analysis of financial protection in 🇺🇦 before the war escalation, covering the period from 2009 to 2021 & the health reform impact since2017
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Happy to have contributed to the Ukrianian policy dialogue discussing how to improve financial protection in the country. #WHOBarcelona @sarahmsthomson
WHO Ukraine@WHOUkraine
WHO officials have presented a report “Can people afford to pay for health care? New evidence on financial protection in Ukraine” It is an analysis of financial protection in 🇺🇦 before the war escalation, covering the period from 2009 to 2021 & the health reform impact since2017
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Jorge Alejandro García MD รีทวีตแล้ว
NEW @WHO_Europe report on financial protection in Belgium 🇧🇪 is out now in the #WHOBarcelona series on affordable access to health care
Around 5% of Belgian households experienced catastrophic health spending in 2020 – why & what can be done to bring this number down? 🧵
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Jorge Alejandro García MD รีทวีตแล้ว
We will produce a country case study to document Spain´s history of PHC reforms so other countries can learn from such experience, as well as identifying pressing challenges and solutions to move forward.
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Today is UHC day! Health for all!
sarahthomson.bsky.social@sarahmsthomson
On #UHCDay @WHO_Europe calls on countries to learn from previous shocks and prevent out-of-pocket payments for health care from pushing people into poverty this winter - especially people affected by conflict and low-income households who.int/europe/news/it…
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Jorge Alejandro García MD รีทวีตแล้ว
The #WHOBarcelona Office is working with national technical experts from Kazakhstan to monitor financial protection and analyze coverage policy. Great to work with such an engaged team interpreting results and understanding the story behind the numbers @WHO_Europe
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Jorge Alejandro García MD รีทวีตแล้ว
@joncylus highlighting that having few formal user charges might not necessarily mean low catastrophic spending. Possible explanations: low public funding? People unaware of entitlements? Narrow benefit package (BP)?Outpatient medicines excluded from BP?#WHOBarcelona
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Jorge Alejandro García MD รีทวีตแล้ว
#WHOBarcelona is working closely with these countries which (in most cases) are generating equity-sensitive and actionable information on financial protection-a key dimension of #UHC- for the first time. To ACT effectively you should MONITOR effectively.
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Trainers are technical experts from #WHOBarcelona, @OBShealth, WHO Headquarters and Consulting group Curatio. @joncylus @TayaraAl @JosCerezo14 @vladgordeev @bakkazieva @marinakaranikol @VDimkovski
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TODAY, representatives from 9 countries in eastern Europe and central Asia are meeting in Tbilisi 🇬🇪, to improve their capacity to monitor financial protection for universal health coverage at a workshop led by #WHOBarcelona #UHC #FinancialProtection @sarahmsthomson @WHO_Europe
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