Some insights from the Beijing Symposium on HSR

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The Symposium on Health system research was concluded on 3rd November this year.Remarkable progress has been noted interms  of form, content and organisation.The first global  Strategy on  Health policy and system research was announced by WHO.The strategy has three major aims; unifying the world of research and decision making in connection to various displines of research to strengthen health systems. It also aims at contributing to the broader understanding of this field by clarifying the scope of Health policy and systems research.In addition, this strategy is envesieged to serve as an agent for change and calls for more prominent role for Health policy and systems research especially this time when the focus is towards a broader goal of Universal health coverage.
"Inclusion of inovations towards Universal health coverage " was the overall theme of the conference; says Kristof DeCoster when giving his  reflections on the symposium  in the IHP blog. He also points out on the impact health system researchers and the public health community have on power and politicians at country level to the grassroots.
The Beijing statement higlights the concluding statement of the conference and provides the prospects for the 2014 3rd Global symposium on Health systems research.