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

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

3. 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

4. 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;

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

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

13. 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?”

14. 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.

15. 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

16. THANK YOU