FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE PUBLIC - PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE Regional Conference 2017

FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE PUBLIC - PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE Maha El Rabbat 2017

INTRODUCTION “A time to urgently and significantly scale up efforts to accelerate the transition towards universal access and availability to affordable and quality healthcare services in line with the SDGs” “achieve UHC including financial risk protection , access to quality essential health care services , and to safe, effective and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all” Population coverage, service coverage , financial risk protection

INTRODUCTION Challenges faced by countries in the region show that countries:  Implementing complex health reforms; Recent shifts in needs: economic, demographic, epidemiological transitions ( communicable and NCDs), conflict and limited resources;

INTRODUCTION *Governments are faced with : - Rising healthcare costs - Increased demand for healthcare services in the face of ongoing budget constraints *“quality of care in the public sector is poor, and accessibility and affordability to comprehensive health services is a challenge” Many are increasingly turning to partnerships with the private sector

Public Private Partnerships in Health An approach to address public health problems through the combined efforts of public, private and development organizations by contributing or sharing their core competency

Why Partnerships In Health Sector? - Desire to improve operations of public health services and facilities and to expand access to higher quality services - Opportunity to leverage private investment for the benefit of public services - Desire to formalize arrangements with non-profit partners who deliver an important share of public services

Public–private partnerships are essential in moving towards UHC Filling gaps in coverage Preventing government from overstretching its capacity in delivering for all, and Harnessing the rapidly growing private sector towards national and state policy goals

Note Path to partnership is not so well- known and can be challenging Private sector growth has taken place with too little policy to guide growth Private sector utilization is particularly high in countries in the Region where public sector spending on health is low the private sector emergence to be a result of insufficient or underperforming public sector services Essential information on private sector composition, service coverage, quality and pricing continues to be patchy

What are partnerships not...? Getting the public sector out of providing services Privatization! IF IT IS PROPERLY and EFFECTIVELY REGULATED

Optimum regulation of the private sector growth policies and those of the health sector This calls for effective governance mechanisms

Path to partnership is not so well- known and can be challenging.

Objectives Providing decision makers with policy options to expand access to quality and efficient essential health services Provide a platform for policy dialogue and experience exchange To answer the question: “how can public/private interests become better aligned for the provision of equitable services toward universal health coverage?”

Sponsors The conference is supported by major financial contributions from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and by the financial and technical support of the World Health Organization.

APPROACH Sessions are interactive we are offering opportunities for discussions at the end of each session Please note that the issues we are addressing might be wide ranging and that discrepancies are present in and between countries

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