| 2d BLOCK - Setting the scene: Social health protection and quality health care |
| Plenary presentation |
Chairperson: Dr. Jean-Bosco Ndihokubwayo, WHO/AFRO, Brazzaville Congo |
Setting the right incentives: Achieving quality in health care through combined provider payment mechanisms
Dr. Peggy McNamara, Agency for Healthcare & Quality U.S.A - abstract / slides
Mr Philip Akanzinge, Ghana Health Service Coordinator, National Health Insurance, Ghana - abstract / slides |
| Parallel Sessions |
1. How to find the appropriate provider payment mechanism?
Chairperson: Dr. J. Kirigia, WHO/AFRO
Dr. Pia Schneider, Senior Health Economist, The Worldbank, USA - slides
Mr McDonald Chaora, Group Executive Officer, CIMAS Medical Aid Society, Zimbabwe - abstract / slides
Dr. Obinna Onwujekwe, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugucampus, Enugu Nigeria - abstract
Dr Hyacinth Ichoku, University of Nigeria Nsukka - abstract |
2. Contracting and quality-based purchasing: What are the results in achieving quality in health care
Chairperson: Dr. Serge Mayaka-Ma Nitu, Experte National en Economie de la Sante, D.R. Congo
Mr Dieudonné Mufwankolo, Director MoH Congo, Program for Promoting Mutual Health Organisations(MoH) - abstract / slides
Dr. Farba Lamine Sall, Health Economic Adviser, WHO Senegal - abstract / slides |
3a. Quality assurance through community-based schemes in India
Chairperson: Dr. Matthias Rompel, Team Leader, Coordinator Sector Initiative Systems of Social Protection GTZ
Ms Ashita Abrahams, Asia Microinsurance Network, ILO STEP India - abstract / slides |
3b. Performance-based payment and quality-based purchasing: What are the results in achieving quality in health care provision?
Dr. Bonaventure Nzeyimana, professional in charge of health care, Rwanda - abstract / slides |
| Workshops (parallel) |
1. Strengthening contracts and improving purchaser-provider-MoH relationships
Mr Alhassane Barry, Conseiller Technique, GTZ Guinea - slides |
2. Ensuring quality services in areas serving the poor and informal workers
Ms Christine Bockstal, Senior Specialist, STEP Regional Coordination in Africa, ILO Dakar, Senegal (ILO) - abstract / slides |
3. Vouchers as payment mechanisms: Kenya
Ms Christine Schmitz , Project Manager Kenya, KfW - abstract |
4. Subsidized health insurance contributions: Rwanda
Dr. Claude Sekabaraga, Director of Planning, Policies and Capacity building unit, Ministry of Health, Rwanda - abstract / slides |
5. The challenge of setting the right incentive to providers in order to increase quality in Lesotho
Ms Mathuntsane Mohapi, Senior Economist, Minstry of Health, Lesotho - abstract / slides |
6. Need of Defining and Designing Clinical Pathway in a Social Health Insurance System - An Indian Scenario
Dr. Nishant Jain, Senior Technical Specialist, Health Insurance and Health Finance, GTZ India - abstract |
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| 3d BLOCK - Social health protection and demand side strengthening to increase quality in health care |
| Plenary presentation |
Chairperson: Mr Tharcisse Nkanagu, Coordinator Social Security Activities Africa Region, ILO |
Achieving quality in health care through demand-side strengthening, by examples of good practice
Dr. Oumar Ouattara, Mutualité Mali and Dr. Werner Soors, Research Assistant, Prins Leopold Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Belgium - abstract / slides
Mr Yousoufa Wade, Comité National du Dialogue Social, Senegal - abstract / slides |
| Parallel sessions |
1a. Health financing mechanisms to assure quality healthcare
Chairperson: Dr. Xenia Scheil-Adlung, Health Policy Coordinator, Social Security Department, ILO
Dr. Daniel Kress, Deputy Director, Global Health Advocacy, Gates Foundation, USA - slides |
1b. International financing, SWAP and the impact on quality of health care services
Dr. Salome Ngata, Senior Programme Officer, GTZ Kenya - abstract / slides |
1c. Output-based Aid: Towards ensuring quality health care through social health protection
Prof Richard O. Muga, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Great Lakes University of Kisumu, Kenya
substitute speaker: Ms Christine Schmitz, Project Manager Kenya, KfW - abstract |
2. Demand-side instruments: Effects on quality (choice, responsiveness) and efficiency, equity
Chairperson: Dr. Jose Manuel Freire Campo, Chairman, Department of International Health, Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Carlos III Institute, Ministry of Health
Dr. Pia Schneider, Senior Health Economist, The Worldbank, USA - abstract / slides
Mr Cheickna Touré, Union des Mutuelles, Mali - abstract / slides |
3. Enabling access to health care to informal sector workers and poor people: Does their membership improve quality?
Chairperson: Dr. Caroline Jehu-Appiah, MoH Ghana
Dr. Olivia Nieveras, GTZ Cambodia - abstract / slides
Dr. Shaaban Sheuya, Tanzania Network of Community Health Funds (TNCHF) - abstract / slides |
| Workshops (parallel) continuation |
1. Strengthening contracts and improving purchaser-provider-MoH relationships
Mr Alhassane Barry, Conseiller Technique, GTZ Guinea |
2. Ensuring quality services in areas serving the poor and informal workers
Ms Christine Bockstal, Senior Specialist, STEP Regional Coordination in Africa, ILO Dakar, Senegal (ILO) |
3. Vouchers as payment mechanisms: Kenya
Ms Christine Schmitz , Project Manager Kenya, KfW |
4. Subsidized health insurance contributions: Rwanda
Dr. Claude Sekabaraga, Director of Planning, Policies and Capacity Building Unit, Ministry of Health, Rwanda |
5. The challenge of setting the right incentive to providers in order to increase quality in Lesotho
Ms Mathuntsane Mohapi, Senior Economist, Minstry of Health, Lesotho |
6. Need of Defining and Designing Clinical Pathway in a Social Health Insurance System - An Indian Scenario
Dr. Nishant Jain, Senior Technical Specialist, Health Insurance and Health Finance, GTZ India |
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