The 3rd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research is scheduled to take place in Capetown from 30th September - 3rd October 2014. Organized by the Health Systems Global and its partners, the symposium will bring together its members with full range of players involved in health system and policy research. The participants will include researchers , policy makers , implementers , civil society and other relevant stakeholders from national and regional associations and professional organizations. There is a lot of enthusiasm already on what is going to happen in this symposium. In the recent blog post , Kristof puts it in perspective on the Neymer Hazard and Messi of health system research who are expected to contribute to the symposium. The Emerging voices for Global health will join the old dinosaurs ( as he puts it ) to make the ball rolling in health system research.
The theme for this conference is ''People- centered health systems'', that is reorienting health systems to be people-centered.
In order to overcome the current challenges in the health systems (especially in developing economies where there is considerable fragmentation of the health system building blocks), the relevance of this symposium need not be overemphasized.
The core values of people-centered health systems ; empowerment , participation , the central role of family and community in in any process of development and ending gender and all other forms of discrimination, will be met by the health systems if the patient is considered across all levels of the system.
Will this symposium give solutions to contemporary challenges in governing health systems?- For example the low participation of civil society organizations and in particular the crackdown on civil societies that are in the front line of giving voice to the people.The fact that there are still many patients who suffer from catastrophic expenditures ( as a result of out of pocket payments) when they fall ill and the limited funding to health care interventions (Most African countries for example have never reached the Abuja Declaration target of allocating 15% of the country budget to health care).
Many more challenges still:- human resource for health crisis, poor information on health services and policies and the problem of counterfeit medicines.
Okay,amid such challenges, I am optimistic that the symposium is going to shade light on the possible solutions.
The theme for this conference is ''People- centered health systems'', that is reorienting health systems to be people-centered.
In order to overcome the current challenges in the health systems (especially in developing economies where there is considerable fragmentation of the health system building blocks), the relevance of this symposium need not be overemphasized.
The core values of people-centered health systems ; empowerment , participation , the central role of family and community in in any process of development and ending gender and all other forms of discrimination, will be met by the health systems if the patient is considered across all levels of the system.
Will this symposium give solutions to contemporary challenges in governing health systems?- For example the low participation of civil society organizations and in particular the crackdown on civil societies that are in the front line of giving voice to the people.The fact that there are still many patients who suffer from catastrophic expenditures ( as a result of out of pocket payments) when they fall ill and the limited funding to health care interventions (Most African countries for example have never reached the Abuja Declaration target of allocating 15% of the country budget to health care).
Many more challenges still:- human resource for health crisis, poor information on health services and policies and the problem of counterfeit medicines.
Okay,amid such challenges, I am optimistic that the symposium is going to shade light on the possible solutions.
