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Conference: Health financing in developing countries
Many countries, confronted with low health care access and payment collection problems, now promote policies that exempt the poorest and most vulnerable from paying user fees. Community based health insurance sometimes complements these strategies. Such experiences of targeted “free medical care” are currently supported by the international community. However, despite the momentum to abolish user fees and generally promote universal health coverage, many questions remain: How did these policies emerge? How have they been put in place? Which evidence of their impacts on health and economic outcomes is there? How did they affect the health sector? How can local initiatives be scaled up? How sustainable are these policies?
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This 2-days conference, built around the presentation of two recent research programmes and NGOs innovative projects, co-financed by AFD, proposes to provide some insights on these critical issues. It also aims at challenging the methods used to evaluate health financing policies, and at questioning the use of research to improve public policies and donors’ strategies.
What can be learnt from innovative research methodologies and NGOs approaches?
The first day of the conference will cover the presentation of two ambitious studies:
- Removal of User Fees: an evaluation of a public policy in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger (Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, LASDEL and Valery Ridde, University of Montréal);
- Micro-health insurance: an experimental impact evaluation in Cambodia (David Levine, University of California, Berkeley and Ian Ramage, DOMREI).
The second day (morning) will present innovative approaches in micro-health insurance promoted by NGOs in Senegal and Cambodia.
Jacky Mathonnat (CERDI), Mead Over (CGD), J.-P. Olivier de Sardan (LASDEL), Valery Ridde (Université de Montréal), David Levine (University of California, Berkeley), Ian Ramage (DOMREI), Michael Clarke (CRDI), Hélène Giacobino (J-Pal), Ir Por (National Institute of Public Health, Cambodia), Saidou Ekoye (Niger’s Ministry of Health), Bruno Galland and Allan Boutbien (CIDR), Marc Nabeth (Colombus consulting) and Pascale Le Roy (GRET) will participate to the conference.
The program
May, 27: Health financing in developing countries: from research to policy change?
- 9:30-10:00 - Introduction to health financing hot issues
- 10:00-13:00 - Strategies to improve healthcare financial access: Which effects on patients and the health system? How sustainable?
- 14:00 -15:30 - Methods to evaluate health financing policies: What can be sound expectations in terms of quantitative / qualitative methods and their interaction?
- 15:30-17:00 - Panel session on the use of research – evaluation: Which policy use? Which research spillovers?
- 17:00 - “Removal of User Fees in Niger” from Malam Saguirou (film projection)
May, 28: Health financing in developing countries: how can innovative NGOs initiatives in health micro-insurance be scaled up?
- 9:30-11:00 - Pricing and design of micro-health insurance: the experience of Senegal and Cambodia
- 11:00-12:15 - From health micro-insurance to social health protection: the experience of SKY and HIP projects in Cambodia
Presentations will be both in French and in English. Simultaneous translation from French to English will be insured.
Annual Presentation of the 2013 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa
Subsidies are intended to protect consumers by keeping prices low. But they also come at a high cost. They are expensive for governments—and therefore taxpayers—to finance and can hinder governments’ efforts to reduce budget deficits.
They also compete with other priority public spending on roads, schools, and healthcare.
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