Equity in Health

Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia

International Society for Equity in Health- ISEqH- Call for Submissions

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

Cartagena de Indias, Colombia - September 26-28, 2011

Website: http://bit.ly/gzVkTf

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