Health systems financing in low-income African and Asian countries (France)

This conference aims at bringing together national and international specialists coming from different origins and countries (governments, universities, research fellows, international organizations and aid agencies, public and private insurance establishments, health practitioners, etc.) to share conceptual, empirical and policy analysis - using various ap- proaches (quantitative, institutional,...) - as well as experiences concerning a broad spectrum of questions raised by the financing of health systems in African and Asian low-income countries.
Theme 1: Evolution of public expenditure in health, macro-economic environment and budget constraints.
Theme 2: Mobilization of domestic and foreign financing; resources for the (public and private) financing of health.
Theme 3: Funding systems and the objectives of health policies.
Theme 4: Decentralization, administrative reforms, modes of managing resources.
Theme 5: Articulation between the public and the private sector and contractualization.
Theme 6: Traditional mechanisms of insurance and alternatives forms.
Theme 7: Financing of health systems, efficiency and equity.
Theme 8: Payment procedures of the suppliers of ambulatory and hospi- tal health care and consequences on the supply (quality, prices, ac- tivities, etc.) and on the demand of health care (access, equity,...).
Theme 9: Useful lessons for low-income countries from experiences in industrialized and middle-income countries; international comparisons.
Theme 10: Actors approaches and policies.