CONFERENCE: Geneva Health Forum - Globalization, Crisis, and Health Systems: Confronting Regional Perspectives
19-21 APRIL 2010 | GENEVA
Organizer: Geneva University Hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva
Event dates: 19-21 April 2010
Venue: Geneva
Health systems around the world are facing unprecedented challenges, many related to or exacerbated by globalization. The 2010 edition of the Geneva Health Forum aims to elucidate the global or transboundary issues that directly or indirectly influence health systems. It also aims to provide deeper insight into how health crises impact society as a whole.
As with any crisis -- be it health related, humanitarian, or environmental -- the current economic downturn presents challenges and threats for health systems. It reveals existing weaknesses and disparities, while offering new opportunities to re-examine health systems. Through dynamic confrontation of perspectives, the Geneva Health Forum 2010 aims to identify sustainable responses to crises, which ensure comprehensive primary healthcare, access to medicines, and prevention. It also addresses the power imbalances at the origin of most social inequalities in health.