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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to our free webinar:

Webinar: A European standard for patient participation in person-centred care

Date: Thursday 25 February 2021

Time: 14.00-15.30 CET (GMT+1)

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Event details: The European standard Patient involvement in healthcare - Minimum requirements for person-centred care (CEN/TC 450) was adopted in 2020. It can be used to facilitate the introduction of, work with and research on person-centred care in a number of different ways by health and care actors, patient organisations, researchers, businesses and others. It ...

The PHC for UHC webinar will present the 2020 achievements of the Regional Joint Workplan 2020-2021 for East Mediterranean Region Global Action Plan Accelerators 1 partners. The achievements are products of the joint collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) and United Nations partners, including United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) in the East Mediterranean Region.