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Check this page frequently to keep up-to-date on conferences,
training, workshops, and other events related to health
accounts in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to health economics
in general. Where possible, we have
included links to relevant event documents.
Several organizations provide training in the preparation and use
of health accounts. While we do not necessarily endorse any
particular program, we provide information for the benefit of
potential trainees.
We encourage you to contact the sponsors listed below for
additional information about content, dates, costs, and language and
other requirements.
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Conferences
| 5th World Congress
of the International
Health Economics Association (iHEA) |
9-13 July, 2005
Barcelona,
Spain |
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This bi-annual event has become
one of the most important in the
health economics field. In 2005 it will be held in Barcelona,
Spain, under the theme "Investing in
Health". The PDF version of the Abstracts Book can
be found here,
and the Congress agenda is available here.
Since 1999 the
Congress has also featured the PHRplus-organized World
Symposium on National Health Accounts, sponsored by USAID
and the Swedish
International Development Agency. This year it
will take place on July 7 and 8.
The iHEA
website offers information about many other noteworthy
health economics conferences around the world. |
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Congress on Health Economics in Latin America and the
Caribbean |
30 November - 3 December, 2004
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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The conference was held under the theme "The
Contribution of Health Economics to the Achievement of Equity
and Efficiency in Health Systems and Services ", and took
place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was be
hosted by the Brazilian Association of Health Economics (ABRES)
and the Argentine Association of Health Economics (AES).
Congress presentations and documents in Portuguese may be
accessed here.
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VII
International Symposium on Health Economics |
13-16 October, 2004
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
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The symposium was held in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba,
and was co-sponsored by the National Association of Economists
and Accountants of Cuba, the Ministry of Public Health of
Cuba, the Pan-American Health Organization, and the Cuban
Society for Health Economics.
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| 26th
Australian Conference of Health Economists of the Australian
Health Economics Society (AHES) |
30 September - 1 October, 2004
Melbourne,
Australia |
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The 26th
Australian Conference of Health Economists, organized by the
Australian Health Economics Society, was held in Melbourne,
Australia, on Thursday, 30 September, and Friday, 1st
October, 2004. |
| 1st
Conference of the Canadian Association for Health Services and
Policy Research |
25-28 May, 2004
Montréal, PQ, Canada |
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Canadian
Association for Health Services and Policy Research held its first conference, highlighting the themes of
learning from international comparisons and knowledge exchange
between researchers and decision-makers. The conference took place in Montréal,
Québec, Canada. |
| Tercera
Reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística
de las Américas-CEPAL |
24-25 May, 2004
Santiago de Chile, Chile |
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The 3rd Meeting of
the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the
Americas of ECLAC was held in Santiago de Chile, Chile, on
Monday the 24th and Tuesday the 25th of May, 2004. Documents
for the conference can be obtained at the following ECLAC
webpage. |
| Innovations
in Health Financing |
20-21 April, 2004
Mexico City,
Mexico |
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The Ministry of
Health of Mexico organized an international conference
“Innovations in Health Financing” in Mexico City,
Mexico, to promote the sharing of best practices among
countries with interest in resolving the challenges of
equitable and sustainable financing of health systems. All
presentations can be downloaded from the Conference
Agenda webpage. |
| 5th
EUROLAC Forum |
13-16 April, 2004
Recife, Brazil |
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Since 1999 the Latin American
region of the World Bank, together with the Inter-American
Development Bank, the Pan-American Health Organization, and
the host governments, have been organizing technical forums on
issues related to health reform. These forums were
initiated in an effort to improve learning and exchange of
experience between European and Latin American
countries. The EUROLAC events have been alternately
hosted by European countries (France and Spain), and Latin
American countries (Costa Rica, Brazil).
This year's event,
entitled "Improving Health System Performance and Health
Outcomes", was held in Recife, Brazil. It included
a session on health accounts organized by the IDB, showcasing
a panel of four presenters from Argentina
(182 KB), Colombia
(754 KB), Mexico
(283 KB), and Spain
(1.1 MB) (click to download the PowerPoint presentations). |
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| Courses
of the International Monetary Fund Institute |
20 February- 31 March, 2006 Washington,
DC, USA |
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IMF courses
relevant to the subject of health accounts include:
Applications can
be filed on
line. General information about the program and
other courses can be found in the special
brochure of the Institute. Also, see here
for courses offered at the IMF regional training center
in Brasilia, Brazil. |
| Flagship
Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing |
17 October-4 November, 2005
Washington, DC, USA |
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The newly re-designed 2005
Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable
Financing is offered by the Harvard
School of Public Health and the World
Bank Institute. The course introduces a practical and
comprehensive framework for understanding health systems and
their performance and a structured approach to developing
health system reform policies to improve that
performance. Specific course modules examine the
theoretical and empirical basis for reform strategies in such
diverse areas as health financing, payment systems,
organizational change, regulation, and population and provider
behavior, making extensive use of case materials from
countries in all regions and at all levels of development.
Click here
to obtain the course brochure and an application form.
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| Financing
of Social Security |
6-10 September, 2004
Santiago, Chile |
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This course is being organized by ILPES,
the training institute of the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and
will take place in Santiago, Chile. It examines
the ongoing reforms in the diverse areas of social security,
such as pensions, and health and unemployment insurance, and
of sectoral social policies, such as housing and transfers to
sectors of extreme poverty. Comparative analysis will be
conducted of the advances, obstacles and challenges to the
existing systems, and of the public/private mix of service
financing and provision. Visit the ILPES
2004 Courses webpage for information on other training
events. |
| The
World Bank Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable
Financing |
12-23 July, 2004
San Pedro
Sula, Honduras |
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The 8th Latin America and the
Caribbean Regional Course on Health Sector Reform and
Sustainable Financing took place in San Pedro
Sula, Honduras. The objective of this
program was to impart knowledge of policies, economy,
management and financing of health systems to those
responsible for the formulation and implementation of public
policies, and to researchers, academics, providers, and
functionaries of health care systems in developing
countries. The program is sponsored by the World
Bank Institute and the Ministry
of Health of Honduras. It was conducted by Bitrán
and Associates, Inc of Chile. To learn about
other Flagship Program events please visit the World
Bank Institute Events page. |
| Harvard Executive Short Courses |
2005-2006 Boston,
MA, USA |
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Every year the International
Health Systems Program of the Harvard School of Public Health
in Boston, MA, offers several short courses oriented
towards practitioners from middle- and low-income countries to
help improve the performance of their health systems.
Upcoming courses include, among
others:
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| York
University Health Studies |
Fall/Winter 2005-2006
Toronto, Canada |
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The Atkinson Faculty of York
University in Toronto, Canada, offers several courses of interest to health
economists at the level of Bachelor degree. Among them are: "Introduction to
Health Care Financial Management", "International
Agencies in Health Care: The World Bank vs. the World Health
Organization (WHO)", "Advanced Health Management
Finance", "Measuring Health System
Performance/Effectiveness", and "Health Care Leadership".
Check the following page
for admission requirements. |
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| The 3rd
PAHO
Workshop on Harmonization of Health and Social Protection
Accounts - System of National Accounts. The MERCOSUR Countries |
November 7-8, 2005
Montevideo, Uruguay |
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This third workshop
of the series (for 1st and 2nd workshops see further below)
involved Southern Cone countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Paraguay, and Uruguay, with the participation of ECLAC.
The event
information may be found on the PAHO website
[Spanish]. |
| Regional
Technical Consultation: Harmonization of Health Accounts and
the National Systems in Countries of the Americas |
July 21-22, 2005 Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic |
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With the
sponsorship of PAHO, ECLAC, and the Central Bank of the
Dominican Republic, the objective of the Consultation was to
gather health and national accounts experts (M. Ascues, M.
Castro, E. Orosz, J.-P. Poullier, C. Reyes, J. van Tongergen)
and obtain their views on the possibility of harmonizing
concepts, classifications, and methods of estimating uses
under the different health accounts approaches, with the
National Accounts. The new Satellite
Health Account Manual was launched, prepared by
international accountants with the support of PAHO. The
Consultation aimed to define the necessary next steps for the
institutionalization of the production of economic and
financial indicators related to health, and to promote their
use in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of public
policies in health and human development. A common
regional definition of the boundaries of the health sector was
sought, which could be used in international comparisons of
health expenditure. Available
are: the meeting agenda,
participants
list, and the description
of the event. |
| The
First PAHO Workshop on Satellite Health Accounts in the
Americas |
May 30-31, 2005 |
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This workshop presented experiences and summarized lessons
learned in the development of Satellite Health Accounts pilot
studies, with the purpose of producing a methodological
guide for the development of Satellite Accounts in
Health. Recommendations were made to promote the
development and use of Satellite Health Accounts in the
design, implementation, and monitoring of public health
policies, and for the development of national health accounts
systems. The PAHO website offers the activity
brief, event
agenda, list
of participants, presentations,
and a list
of documents on Satellite Health Accounts.
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| The
Second PAHO Workshop on Harmonization of Health and Social
Protection Accounts - System of National Accounts.
Andean Community: Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru y Venezuela |
May 27-28, 2004 |
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The workshop, the
second of a series of three, will be held in Quito, Ecuador.
The supporting documentation can be found here.
The first workshop, for Centro-American countries, took place
in November 2003 in San José, Costa Rica, and the documents
from it can be be found on the PAHO
website.
The workshops´ objectives are: (a) to
promote the exchange of experiences about methodological
aspects of health accounts studies among professionals of the
Andean countries, (b) to identify the concepts,
classifications, and methods of estimation that would permit
the harmonization of expenditure and financing indicators with
the indicators of the System of National Accounts of the
countries, and (c) to identify concepts, classifications, and
methods of estimation that would allow the development of
internationally comparable indicators of expenditure and
financing in health and social protection. |
| The
First PAHO Workshop on Harmonization of Health and Social
Protection Accounts - System of National Accounts: Central America,
Panama and the Dominican Republic |
November 24-25, 2003 |
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The objectives of
this workshop were to advance the methodological definitions
in the estimation of indicators, to permit the regular
production of expenditure financing source indicators in
health and social protection, as part of the national
statistical system and/or the System of National Accounts of
the countries. The workshop took place on 24th and 25th of
November 2003, in San José, Costa Rica. (agenda,
presentations,
participants
list) |
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Organizations |
| Instituto
Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planificación Económica y
Social (ECLAC-ILPES) |
The mission of Latin American and
Caribbean Institute of Economic and Social Planning, part of
the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL),
is to act as the central ECLAC body for training, and in this
role to contribute to the dissemination of the work of the
ECLAC System. It's program centers around organizing
courses, conferences, seminars, and experts´ meetings on
multi-sectoral topics. |
| Fundación
Mexicana para la Salud (FUNSALUD) |
This private non-profit organization
offers training and research stipends and awards. It also
sponsors a variety of training events in the region. |
| Harvard
International Health Systems Group Training Programs |
IHSP Training Program's mission is to
strengthen the capacity of health system practitioners from
middle and lower income countries to improve the performance
of their health systems. IHSP courses blend theoretical
knowledge, practical tools, and hands-on practice in using
those tools. |
| Instituto Interamericano para Desarrollo Social - INDES |
The Inter-American Institute for Social
Development is the IDB's program for sharing knowledge with
policymakers, that offers a variety of courses on-line as well
as in Latin American and Caribbean countries. |
| International
Monetary Fund Institute |
The IMF Institute was established in
1964 to offer training in management economics to the
officials of IMF member countries. In addition to the courses
offered at the headquarters in Washington, DC, training is
conducted in regional
centres in Austria, Brazil,
China, Tunisia, Singapore y the United Arab Emirates, and occasionally
in large member countries and those with special circumstances.
At the headquarters the courses are offered in four languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. The curses
offered at the regional training center in Brasilia are in
Spanish or Portuguese. |
| PAHO
Training Program in International Health |
The PAHO Training Program in
International Health aims to strengthen the capacity of
institutions in the Region and the Member States to (i)
analyze the factors that affect their health
situation; (ii) design innovative policies using international
experiences and mobilizing political, financial, and
technical resources; (iii) participate
in the definition of action agenda of international
organizations; and (iv) develop
cooperative relations, projects, and networks among
professionals and institutions in the Region. |
| World Bank Institute (WBI) |
The WBI offers a wide variety of learning
programs, evaluation
activities, knowledge
sharing activities, partnerships,
publications,
electronic
discussions, B-SPAN (videos
on the web), TV
documentaries; and scholarships programs. |
| World Bank's
Flagship Program on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable
Financing |
Training
program that provides intensive, state-of-the-art knowledge
and training on options for health sector development and best practices, to policymakers and
development partners. The next two-week training program for
Europe and Central Asia will take place in Budapest, Hungary,
on June 14-25, 2004.
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