Catalog of Learning Activities

WBI Program: Health Systems
Activity Title: 12th Global Flagship Core Course on Health Sector Reform
Activity ID: HNP09-01-271
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Contact Info

Task Manager: Hadia A. Karam
Email: Hsamaha@worldbank.org
Task Admin: Sawdatou Wane
Email: swane@worldbank.org

Date and Cost

Start Date: October 12 2009
End Date: October 30 2009
Cost: Fees Apply

Description

The annual Flagship Course will be offered October 12 – 30, 2009 to about 60 participants. This year’s course has undertaken a quality enhancement and technical review which has led to revised and new learning modules, including new country case studies being prepared for the upcoming course. Participants in the Core Course join required sessions covering the major core elements of the Flagship course including: • Analyzing Health Sector Performance • Specific Strategies for Financing Health Care • Designing Benefit Packages and Targeting Beneficiaries • Paying, Contracting, and Regulating Providers • Organizational Strategies in Ambulatory Health Care •Hospital Reform Strategies • Organizational Reform and Management of Public Providers • Decentralization: Sharing Resources and Responsibilities

Objective

The Course will enable participants to: • Speak a “common language” about dimensions of health sector reform and achieve deeper understanding of heath finance issues and sustainable financing options; • Situate their health systems within a taxonomy of health systems according to structural, financial, and functional characteristics; • Assess how well their national health systems perform according to explicit criteria including health status, financial protection, citizen satisfaction, efficiency, and sustainability. • Determine alternate paths their national health systems could take, and why it would be desirable to pursue some paths over others; • Understand how to move their national health system from its current state to a participant-defined future state; and • Understand how to select and apply tools and procedures to make desired changes. and to assess their effects.

Topic(s)

Health Nutrition and Population

Participants

Audience: Mid- to High- level government officials, hospital managers, NGO representatives, Donor agencies, WB staff

Target Country(s): World Wide

Partners: Harvard University, Bitran Y Asociados

Site Information

Delivery Modes: Face to Face (150 Hours)

Locations:Washington DC, United States of America
 Languages: English