The state of health policy and systems research: Reflections from the 2018 5th global symposium
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Date
2019
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Health Policy and Planning
Abstract
The latest version of this event, the 5th Global Symposium on
Health Systems Research, took place in Liverpool, UK from 8 to 12
October 2018, and drew 2247 participants from >125 countries—the
largest gathering to date of health systems researchers from across the
globe.Organized by Health Systems Global (HSG), it took place 40 years
after the Alma-Ata Conference on Primary Health Care and 70 years
after the creation of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. The
conference theme, Advancing Health Systems for All in the Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) Era, was chosen to echo some of the themes
that have shaped health system development since Alma-Ata, and to enable
reflection on the achievements and challenges facing health systems
in 2018; but also to draw attention to some of the important ways in
which the struggle for ‘health for all’ and the context of health system
development has changed in these past 40 years.
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Health Policy, Global Symposium, Health systems, United Kingdom, National health service
Citation
Hanson, K., Rasanathan, K., & George, A. (2019). The state of health policy and systems research: Reflections from the 2018 5th global symposium. Health Policy and Planning, 34, II1-II3. doi:10.1093/heapol/czz113