World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (WNTDD) will be celebrated on Sunday 30 January 2022. To mark this celebration, WHO is organizing a virtual event, calling on everyone to address the inequalities that characterize NTDs. WNTDD is an opportunity to re-energize the momentum to end the suffering from these 20 diseases that are caused by a variety of pathogens including viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and toxins. The day provides an opportunity to focus on the millions of people who have limited or no access to prevention, treatment and care services. Join us to celebrate the event on 26 January 2022 14 ...

IFIC Ireland hosts and facilitates a series of six webinars titled ‘Realising Integrated Care’ which forms one of the key delivery mechanisms enabling knowledge mobilisation across all stakeholders with an interest in developing and implementing integrated care within the healthcare systems on the island of Ireland. 

Integrated Care is about bringing together a collaboration of organizations and their staff to coordinate services around patients in order to improve health and well-being outcomes and overall satisfaction with services. Integration is context driven; it requires shared vision, trusting relationships, resources and alignment across health and social service ecosystems.

This webinar will bring together patient partners and health leaders who attended the first-ever North American Conference on Integrated Care and are advancing integrated people-centred health systems (#NACIC2021).

Join this patient and family advisor-led panel to learn:

1. Insights from the recent NACIC conference: what worked, how to continue to ...

Planning for quality is required at the national, district and facility-levels to enhance quality of care, and drive efforts towards universal health coverage. WHO recently launched Quality Health Services: a planning guide to support key actions required to improve the quality of health services for the entire population, recognizing the unique pathway for each country. The planning guide focuses on actions required at the national, district and facility levels to enhance quality of health services, providing guidance on implementing key activities at each of these three levels. It is intended to support those working at all levels of the health ...

The world requires urgent action on WASH for the benefit of people across the world. Compassion is increasingly recognized as a critical consideration for health and development. The need for compassion—awareness, empathy and action—to be at the heart of quality of care efforts has never been so important. The confluence of these three areas—compassion/WASH/quality—requires active exploration to help us collectively accelerate urgent action. Join us as we learn how specific WASH tools are vectors for compassion in the health arena and explore how this “compassion-WASH-quality” triangulation can yield positive results for people.

The new report from the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), Realising the true value of integrated care describes the steps we must take to create a radically different future beyond Covid-19. The report is a powerful call to reset our compass to a new reality based on solidarity and collaboration for population health. IFIC Scotland and partners will explore this new future in series 5 of their Integrated Care Matters webinars.

Guest panelists, members of IFICs international Special Interest Groups, will share their experiences and insights and challenge us to design a better future that improves lives and opportunities ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Empowerment for Health as ‘a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health. Empowerment may be a social, cultural, psychological or political process through which individuals and social groups are able to express their needs, present their concerns, devise strategies for involvement in decision-making, and achieve political, social and cultural action to meet those needs.’

The unexpected events of the past year have led to a neglect of chronic conditions. We have witnessed a decline in the physical, mental, and emotional health of our older citizens in Europe.

Now more than ever, there is a need for an integrated approach to care, shifting the focus from a silo-based approach to social and health care delivery.

The Horizon 2020 ValueCare pilot site partners of Valencia, Spain, in coordination with the Covenant on Demographic Change are delighted to announce the international online event, free and open to the general public: INTEGRATED CARE IN EUROPE: KEYS, CHALLENGES AND ...