Call for Papers and Posters

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Conference Themes

 

Conference presentations will be organised along the following seven (7) subthemes:

  • Evaluating our Fiscal Space
  • Health and Sustainable Development
  • Health and Economic Diversification in the Region
  • Economic and Security Implications of Communicable and Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
  • Public Policy: the Financing of Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage (UHC)'
  • Public Policy: Resource Challenges in Health
  • Social Security Challenges & Opportunities.

Papers and Posters under the ‘Evaluating our Fiscal Space’ thematic area may explore, but not be  limited to:

  1. Government Expenditure Patterns
  2. Assessment of the Fiscal Machinery
  3. The Role of Fiscal Policy on Population Health
  4. Fiscal Space for Education & Training;
  5. Fiscal Space and Social Security

Papers and Posters under the 'Health and Sustainable Development' thematic area may explore, but not be limited to:

  1. Health and the Development Agenda
  2. Health and Economic Growth
  3. Health and Climate Change;
  4. Health and Equity
  5. Health and Crime

Papers and Posters under the ‘Health and Economic Diversification in the Region’ thematic area may explore, but not be limited to:

  1. Health and Tourism;
  2. Health and Sport
  3. Health and Wellness
  4. Offshore Medical and Nursing Education

Papers and Posters under the ‘Economic and Security Implications of Communicable and Non Communicable Diseases (NDCs)’ thematic area may explore, but not be limited to:

  1. New and not so new infectious diseases;
  2. HIV and NCDs;

Papers and Posters under the ‘Public Policy:. the Financing of Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage (UHC)' thematic area may explore, but not be limited to:

  1. Universal Access to Health-Universal Health Coverage Challenges;
  2. National Institutes of Health - so Close and Yet so Far from Implementation;
  3. Private Health Insurance Systems; 
  4. Provider Payments and Pay for Performance in Health
  5. Monitoring & Evaluation of Health Services Delivery Systems;

Papers and Posters under the ‘Public Policy: Resource Challenges in Health’ thematic area may explore, but not be limited to:

  1. Migration of Human Resources (HR);
  2. Paying for the Training of HR--Public or Private Responsibility;
  3. Opportunities for Tapping into the Diaspora;
  4. Quality Issues in Health Systems – Perception versus Reality
  5. Information Technology in Health Care Delivery - Opportunities & Challenges;
  6. Values Education within HR Development

Papers and Posters under the ‘Social Security Challenges & Opportunities’ thematic area may explore, but not be limited to:

  1. Pension Reform
  2. Relevance of Public Private Partnerships in the Policy Framework for Social Security
  3. Efficient Delivery of Social Services
  4. Monitoring & Evaluation in Social Services Delivery
  5. Information and Communication Technology and Social Services Delivery – Opportunities & Challenges;