ISEQH 2011 - ISEQH 6th International Conference: Making Policy a Health Equity Building Process

International Society for Equity in Health
6th International Conference: Making Policy a Health Equity Building Process
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
26-28 September, 2011

Equity is an important issue to champion for, and is far for been overcome
by governments, international or global institution, or academia. However
nobody disagrees with it because is too broad. We would like to provide more
detail, be more specific and, at the same time, offer a multi disciplinary
look. Following this, we intend to “qualify” equity, defining a series of
key topics:

? Inequity in access to essential drugs
? Inequity in access to high cost treatments
? Inequity in access to primary health care
? Inequity in the process of health care provision
? Sexual and reproductive health and equity
? Financially catastrophic out of pocket expenditures in health
? Community Participants and health equity
? Quality assurance and its impact to equity
? Communication campaigns, advocacy and health
? Equity to care in different health systems and the impact on equity of
Health reforms (decentralization, primary health care strategies,
georeference).
? Impact evaluation of health programs and health promotion interventions
? Environment, water, sanitation and inequity in health status and treatment

Equity is not only a research issue. It requires an interdisciplinary
approach and a research & policy partnership showing clear experiences about
how to reach equity in health. Therefore, we identify certain arenas where
research and policymaking interact:

i- Political economy of health reforms
ii- Program evaluation
iii- Governance

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

All participants are invited to submit an abstract for symposia and/or oral
and/or poster presentations to abstracts-AT-iseqh.org. It is not necessary to
be a member of the International Society for Equity in Health to submit an
abstract. Members of the Scientific Program Committee will review abstracts.
All accepted abstracts would be published in a program and abstract book.

For more information please visit our site on www.iseqh.org