CERGAS Seminar "How you measure matters and other lessons learned from a decade of monitoring affordable access to health care in Europe"

Can people in Europe afford to pay for health care? 10 years ago there was no answer to this question because no one was monitoring the problem, so the WHO Barcelona Office set up a project to fill this crucial gap in health system performance assessment. Find out how we developed a new approach to measuring financial protection in health, the obstacles we faced from key global players and how we eventually persuaded them to adopt our approach for Sustainable Development Goal 3.8.2 on universal health coverage.

Speaker:

Sarah Thomson is Senior Health Financing Specialist at the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing, where she leads a project looking at whether people can afford to pay for health care and coordinates UHC Watch, an online platform tracking progress on affordable access to health care in Europe and Central Asia. She has also led studies on the history, politics and performance of private health insurance globally and the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis on health systems in Europe. Before moving to Barcelona, Sarah was an Associate Professor in Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Deputy Director of LSE Health and Head of the LSE Hub of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Sarah has a PhD in health policy from the LSE.

Link zoom:

https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/94152132363?pwd=7COydLHwZPZjoL9iRKL1UqlTsoiFY2.1

Meeting ID:

941 5213 2363

Passcode:

860500

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