Workshop
Bi‐Regional Forum of Health Care Organizations
(Domain 3) on People –Centered Health Care
Date : 26-27 March 2009
Where : Manila Pavilion Hotel, United Nations Avenue, Manila, Philippines
» Welcome Addressee
| Assoc. Prof. Pratap Singhasivanon Secretary General/Coordinator SEAMEO TROPMED Network Represented by Dr. Nina G. Gloriani Director, TROPMED/Philippines Dean of the College of Public Health, University of the Philippines |
» Keynote
| Dr. Linda Milan Director for Building Healthy Communities and Populations and Officer-in-charge WHO Western Pacific Region |
» Presentation
| Domain 1: Informed and empowered individuals, families and communitie Prof. Junko Tashiro, RN,MW, PHN, PhD Prof. Assoc. Director WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing in PHC St. Luke’s College of Nursing, Tokyo, Japan Domain 2: Competent and responsive health practitioners Dr. Alejandro Dizon Chief Quality Officer and Chair Hospital Performance Improvement Council St. Luke’s Medical Center, Philippines Domain 3: Efficient and benevolent health care organizations Dr. Anuwat Supachutikul Chief Executive Officer The Institute of Hospital Quality Improvement and Accreditation (HA-Thailand) Domain 4: Supportive and humanitarian health care systems Dr. Alberto Romualdez Dean, Graduate School of Health Sciences Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila And former Secretary of Health, Philippines |
» Opening Ceremony
» Programme
» List of Participants
» Photo Gallery
Background
Dr. Shigeru Omi, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific made a call for strategic adjustments in Asia’s health care system. This was issued during the International Symposium in Tokyo entitled “People‐centered Health Care: Reorienting Health Systems in the 21st Century” organized last November 25, 2007. Dr. Omi stated that one of the problems in the current system is “healing has become too narrow, with the patient viewed as little more than a set of symptoms”. He stressed that “knowledge and technology are our great allies, but we must use them judiciously and holistically, within a people‐friendly system that views members of the public as full and equal partners in preventing disease and enhancing health and well‐being”. (1)
A people‐ centered approach involves a balanced consideration of the values, needs, expectations, preferences, capacities, and health and well‐being of all the constituents and stakeholders of the health care system. Achieving the desired reorientation towards a people‐centered health care would involve comprehensive and positive changes spanning four key policy and action domains to include: (i) individuals, families and communities; (ii) health practitioners; (iii) health care organizations; and (iv) health systems. (2)
In July 2008, underscoring the fact that one of the action domains of a people‐ centered health care is health practitioners, a bi‐regional forum of medical training institutions on “People‐centered Health Care” was organized in Manila Philippines. The forum was attended by Deans/Directors of medical faculties; Presidents/Directors of Medical Training Associations/Consortia; Policy makers responsible for medical education and SEAMEO TROPMED Regional Centre Directors. The forum aimed to: (i) recognize the relevance of the concept and its domain; (ii) agree on the needed core competencies of people‐centered health practitioners; (iii) define the role of the training institutions in advocating for a “people‐centered health care”; and (iv) identify the measures on how to promote and integrate the core competencies of people centered health practitioners in the continuum of medical education and training.
Rational
Another action domain of a people‐centered health care is health care organizations. The organization of the health care delivery influence to a great extent the quality of the health care provided to the people. The Policy Framework of the People‐ Centered Health Care suggested several strategic responses such as:
- Providing a conducive and comfortable environment for people receiving health care and for health practitioners
- Ensuring effective and efficient coordination of care
- Establishing and strengthening multidisciplinary care teams
- Strengthening the integration of patient education, family involvement, self‐management and counseling into health care
- Providing standards and incentives for safe quality and ethical services
- Introducing and strengthening models of care
- Enhancing leadership capacity of health services mangers in championing people‐centered health care
It is in this context that this regional forum of health policy makers is being planned. There’s a need for policy makers of health care facilities/organizations to be clarified about the concept and the initiative and define the strategic measures that the health care organizations can implement to promote the concept.
Objectives
At the end of the forum, the participants will be able to:
- recognize the relevance of the concept and its domain;
- define the role of the health care organizations in advocating for a “people‐centered health care”;
- agree on the effective interventions that can be adopted at the organizational/institutional level that will respond to the eeds of patients, health practitioners and other staff; and
- identify the measures on how to promote and integrate the core concepts of people‐centered health care in their own organizations.
Date and Venue of the Forum
A two‐ day forum will be organized on last week of March 2009 in Manila, Philippines
Participants
The estimated number of participants from selected countries in WPRO and SEARO
will be 30 and will be composed of the following;
- Policy makers of health care facilities of the Ministry of Health
- Managers /Directors of medical facilities
- Presidents/Directors of Hospital Associations/Consortia
- SEAMEO TROPMED Regional Centre Directors
International experts on health care reform will be invited to discuss the concept and its domains. Countries to be involved:
| WPRO | SEARO |
| Cambodia Lao PDR Malaysia Mongolia Philippines Vietnam People’s Republic of China Republic of Korea |
Bhutan Indonesia Myanmar Thailand |
Implementing Agency SEAMEO Tropical Medicine and Public Health (SEAMEO TROPMED) Network in collaboration with WPRO will organize the meeting to include invitation, travel arrangements and organization of the meeting as well as secretariat services.
SEAMEO TROPMED Network is a regional cooperation network established 1966 for education, training and research in tropical medicine and public health under the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization. The mission of SEAMEO TROPMED is to promote health and to prevent and/or control diseases, thus improving the living conditions of people through relevant programmes and services. One specific objective of the Network is to develop the capacity of individuals and institutions in delivering quality healthcare. The Network operates through the Regional Centre for Community Nutrition in Indonesia; Regional Centre for Microbiology, Parasitology and Entomology in Malaysia; Regional Centre for Public Health, Hospital Administration and Occupational Health in the Philippines; and Regional Centre for Tropical Medicine in Thailand. These Regional Centres are affiliated with academic and research institutions which provide the physical facilities, faculty and technical staff in respective Member Countries. A Network Coordinating Office is based in Bangkok, Thailand.