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Regional health policy - Promoting equity in spite of crosscurrents?
The health system reflects one of the largest organized activities of modern society. Current trends of health policy in Europe focus on devolution, i.e. shifting responsibilities towards the regional and local level.
The workshop intended to promote the debate on regional health policy, illustrating the broad scope of the topic. Examples of “good practice” were identified, facilitating mutual learning for the benefit of all interested regions.
LIGA.NRW as WHO Collaborating Centre for Regional Health Policy and Public Health organized the workshop in coordination with the WHO Regions for Health Network.
Programme of the workshop
Regional health policy - Promoting equity in spite of crosscurrents?
Welcome
Dr. Eleftheria Lehmann, Director General of LIGA.NRW
Erio Ziglio, Video message from the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Venice, Italy
Session 1: Health in European regions
Population health
- Population health in European regions (Interregional comparisons based on EU cofunded projects)
Wolfgang Hellmeier & Ixhel Escamilla, LIGA.NRW, Bielefeld, Germany
Regional health policy
- Results of a literature search and in-depth interviews with regional health policy experts
Claudia Hornberg, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Between Scylla and Charybdis: Positioning European regions in the 21st century
Neil Riley, Public Health Wales, United Kingdom
EU (health) policy
- EU policies, EU Health strategy, EU structural funds, "Regional health"
Kai Michelsen, Maastricht University, the Netherlands - Health in European regions: Euregion Meuse-Rhine (EMR), EuPrevent”
Karl-Heinz Feldhoff, Heinsberg County, Germany
Session 2: Pursuing health equity
Children and youth
- Equity in health projects for children and adolescents
Petra Kolip, University of Bielefeld, Germany - Special "Alternative Youth Settings" in Hungarian shopping centres - aiming to strengthen social cohesion
Mariann Penzes, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary
Workers and unemployed persons
- Unemployment and health - some facts and strategies
Manfred Dickersbach, LIGA.NRW, Bielefeld, Germany
Senior citizens
- Senior citizen's health projects and equity. Focus: Caregiving
Hanneli Döhner, University of Hamburg, Germany - Promotion of health-enhancing physical activity for the elderly - Current activities in North Rhine-Westphalia
Gudula Ward & Gunnar Geuter, LIGA.NRW, WHO CC for Regional Health Policy and Public Health, Bielefeld, Germany
Session 3: Methods and tools to support equity in regional health policy
Systems performance
- Health System Performance Assessment - contributing to regional health policy
Ann-Lise Guisset, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark - Health needs and access to health services by migrants across the European Regions: a proposal to build a minimum set of shared indicators
Barbara Pacelli, Agenzia Sanitaria e Soziale Regione Emilia Romagna, Bologna, Italy
Innovations
- How to develop health regions as driving forces for quality of life, growth and innovation? The experience of North Rhine-Westphalia
Karin Scharfenorth, Cluster Management “Health Care Economy” North Rhine-Westphalia, Bochum, Germany - Health economy and health innovation - searching for a patient-oriented model of value-based health care
Michaela Evans, Institute for Work and Technology (IAT), Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Impact
- Health impact modelling – Results from an international workshop in Düsseldorf, March 2010
Odile Mekel, LIGA.NRW, WHO CC for Regional Health Policy and Public Health, Bielefeld, Germany
Additional presentation
- Lower Saxony, Region for Health
Ute Sonntag, Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit und Akademie für Sozialmedizin Niedersachsen e.V., Germany
Session 4: Perspectives / Discussion
- Reducing health inequalities from a regional perspective
What works, what doesn’t work
Annual RHN Conference in Genk (Belgium), Nov. 2010
Solvejg Wallyn, Flemish Agency Care and Health; International Relations, Brussels, Belgium
Workshop report
LIGA.Fokus 15
Regional Health Policy - Promoting equity in spite of cross-currents?
Regionale Gesundheitspolitik - Förderung von Chancengleichheit trotz Hindernissen?
Bochum, Germany, 13-14 Sept 2010
Düsseldorf: LIGA.NRW 2011, 104 S.
ISBN 978-3-88139-189-4