Subject: Re: Update on the WHO Europe financial protection study
From: Jorge Alejandro García Ramírez<[email-masked]>
To: "THOMSON, Sarah" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:22:42 +0000

What a great update Sarah! Congratulations to everyone involved and to you, Tamás and Jon  for the leadership. I'm very proud of all the work done in 2019 and for having the opportunity to join the team

Looking forward to continuing our work in 2020

Wishing all of you a happy new year!

Jorge Alejandro

El mié., 18 dic. 2019 a las 7:42, THOMSON, Sarah (<[email-masked]>) escribió:

Dear colleagues

An end of year update -

Our report on financial protection in Europe -
Can people afford to pay for health care? - is now available in Russian and
summaries of the report are available in English, French, German and Spanish (Russian summary to follow shortly).

We disseminated the findings of the 2019 report via a range of events and publications this year, including:

EU Social Protection Committee Indicators Sub-Group, Brussels, 6 February & 20 June

EU HSPA Expert Group, Valletta, 4 June

WHO high-level conference
on health equity, Tallinn, 11-13 June

OECD report
Health for everyone? Social inequalities in health and health systems (chapter on affordability and financial protection), September

WHO 2019 global report

Primary health care on the road to universal health coverage (chapter on financial protection), September

The UHC 2030’s Civil Society Engagement Mechanism

Reflections on WHO 2019 UHC monitoring report commended our work in Europe for counting further impoverished people and linking financial protection results to data on unmet need for health care, September

WHO & World Bank

Global monitoring report on financial protection in health 2019, September

European
Health Forum Gastein, 2-4 October, where we highlighted findings from the Austria and Estonia country reports

OECD report

Health at a glance 2019 (chapter on access to health care), November

European Commission
State of health in the EU companion report 2019 (chapter on accessibility), December

European Commission
State of health in the EU country profiles (selected countries), December

WHO Global Meeting to Accelerate Progress on SDG target 3.4 on NCDs and Mental Health, Muscat, 9-12 December

BMJ Opinion

We must change how we measure the impact of health spending on poor people if we are serious about ‘leaving no one behind’, 12 December

For those of you in Bangkok in January, we will be at
PMAC UHC Forum 2020.

Country reviews for Poland, Sweden, Moldova and Ireland are now ready to be published online, with Slovenia soon to follow. Country reviews for Albania, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Greece, the Netherlands, Portugal and Turkey are being
updated with more recent data and will be published next year. The findings for Moldova were presented at two high-level policy dialogue events in Chisinau. The findings for Latvia were presented at a high-level meeting in the Latvian parliament.

New countries joined the study this year – Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland – and in 2020 we will include the last remaining EU member states – Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, Malta and Romania.

We are also working towards the publication of a brief on coverage policy to be published in the European Observatory’s policy brief series in 2020 and a
second regional report on financial protection in Europe in 2021.

We couldn’t have done any of this without your valuable contribution.

We’d specially like to highlight the work of our colleagues José Cerezo, Marina Karanikolos, Mary MacLennan, Ilaria Mosca, Erica Richardson and Pooja Yerramilli in editing the country reports; Ruth Oberhauser and Juan García Domínguez in
coordinating the production of the reports; and our copy editors Nancy Gravesen, Alex Mathieson and Nicole Satterley. Jorge Alejandro García Ramírez also joined our team this year.

With thanks to all of you and good wishes for 2020 -

Sarah, Tamás & Jon

Sarah Thomson

Senior Health Financing Specialist

WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Strengthening

Can
people afford to pay for health care?

New
evidence on financial protection in Europe

+34 607 072 924

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Jorge Alejandro García Ramírez

Medical Doctor, Universidad de Caldas, Colombia
MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing, LSE & LSHTM, UK

Grupo de investigación Promoción de la salud y Prevención de la Enfermedad

Facultad de Ciencias para la Salud, Universidad de Caldas, Colombia

Email: [email-masked]

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgegarciamd

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