1 / 9

Pacific network for NHA and evidence based policy making - update

Pacific network for NHA and evidence based policy making - update. World Health Organization. 4th Technical Review Meeting, Nossal Institute Martina Pellny, WHO DPS, Fiji Melbourne, 10 October 2011. Overview on NHA status. Another observation specific to the Pacific.

sylvie
Download Presentation

Pacific network for NHA and evidence based policy making - update

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Pacific network for NHA and evidence based policy making - update World Health Organization 4th Technical Review Meeting, Nossal Institute Martina Pellny, WHO DPS, Fiji Melbourne, 10 October 2011

  2. Overview on NHA status

  3. Another observation specific to the Pacific Relatively high percentage of external funding for health – thus many donors, with many external experts, undertaking different financial analysis, with various methodologies…

  4. Update on the Pacific Network • Aim: to create local regional capacity and skills for NHA and evidence based policy making and to ensure continued methods • At the Nadi meeting in May 2010, CHIPSR was designated as technical resource centre, WHO DPS based in Fiji as the coordinating body • A number of proposals for funding activities have been submitted by WHO and CHIPSR

  5. Network set-up WHO CHIPSR With staff from the Pacific, linking with FNU and USP Supporting research institutions: IHP, Nossal Institute, Curtin University, AIHW etc

  6. Network TOR/ ongoing activities

  7. Thanks New website: http://www.wpro.who.int/southpacific (click on programs/ health financing) With sub-sides on: • Country NHA reports of PICs • Newsletter on activities in the Pacific • Products from the ADB-WHO project on “Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy-Making in the Pacific: Support for the Development of National Health Accounts” that ended in August 2010

  8. Products from the ADB-WHO project • Training material can be used beyond the Pacific: • Developing health accounts classification and a health accounts database: • Scoping of data for development of health accounts • Design of surveys with specific reference to private hospitals

  9. Products from the ADB-WHO project • Country case studies and studies on the use of NHA: • NHA implementation in Pacific Island Countries: the experience of PNG, Samoa and Tonga • Why invest in NHA – the Pacific Island Countries View • A study on the use of NHA for policy-making in PICS – with recommendations for advocacy and capacity building

More Related