Background
The increasing demand for health services in Asia and the Pacific is driven by various factors such as its increasing greying population and rise of noncommunicable diseases which imposes heavy costs on individual pockets and the public health budgets. Given the fiscal and institutional constrains, most governments lack the service capacity and resources to address this growing demand. These gaps have provided opportunities for the private sector to expand its operation and galvanize an integral role in the provision of health services. Through the years, the private sector has demonstrated to provide greater service capacity, service responsiveness, and increase coverage, access, choice and types of services.
The challenge of mixed health systems, which is predominantly existing in low-and middle-income countries in the region, remains to be one of the barriers decelerating the strengthening of health systems. With the global goal of achieving a universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030, there is a stronger pressure now for the region to strengthen its health system and improve the effectiveness, efficiency, access, equity and quality of service delivery. To accelerate progress in achieving this goal, appropriate safeguards and policy measures must be established to provide an enabling environment for the private sector to integrate in the health system.
With the aim to support achievement of health sector goals, the ANHSS in collaboration with the Center for Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada will organize a knowledge transfer and capacity building course on private sector engagement with the theme Towards more Effective and Collaborative Service Delivery for Universal Health Care. These events aim to gather health and health system experts, policymakers, business and non-profit organizations, academicians, and others to collaboratively discuss knowledge, good practices including harmonization and adaptation measures, challenges, and innovations concerning universal health care.
Private Sector Engagement Course
The web-based course aims to provide knowledge and skills to profit and non-profit organizations, institutions, and individuals such as policymakers, academicians, health advocates, and social innovators whose primary purpose is to improve health so that they can contribute to the strengthening of health systems for the effective delivery, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of universal health care.
The course is delivered through a series of webinars, conducted every Wednesday at 09.00 (UTC+7) starting from the 12th of August.
For registrations and more information please visit the course web page.
Speakers
ANHSS Knowledge Event and Workshop on UHC in collaboration with AIM. Philippines, Manila. 2019
With an aim to support achievement of health sector goals, the ANHSS in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Management organized a knowledge transfer and capacity building course on private sector engagement followed by a half-day summit with the theme Health Systems Strengthening: Towards Effective and Collaborative Service Delivery for Universal Health Care. (more…)