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September 26, 2011
International Society for Equity in Health 6th International Conference: Making Policy a Health Equity Building Process
Location: Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Dates: September 26-28, 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 and policy partnership showing clear experiences about how to reach equity in health. Therefore, we identify certain arenas where research and policymaking interact:
- Political economy of health reforms
- Program evaluation
- Governance
Important Dates and Deadlines:
Organized Session Submission Deadline: Mar 4 Extended to June 25
Organized Session Selections Announced: Apr 4 Extended to July 15
Individual Abstract Submission Deadline: Mar 25 Extended to May 25
Early Bird Registration Deadline: Apr 15 Extended to June 15
Individual Abstract Selections Announced: Apr 25 Extended to June 25
Draft Program Posted: May 25 Extended to July 30
Participant Registration Deadline (Presenter/Chair/Discussant): Jul 15 Extended to Aug 15
Call For Submissions
All participants are invited to submit an abstract for symposia and/or oral and/or poster presentations to abstracts@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 http://www.iseqh.org
