The World Economic Forum – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 13 April 2009 |
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The World Economic Forum's initiative on New Models in Healthcare Delivery hosted a private meeting in association with the Latin America regional meeting.
The ACCESS Health International presented the work performed in India with identification and documentation of innovation in healthcare delivery with an aim to
facilitate knowledge transfer and support implementation of best practices. One example was how efficient school health programs developed in India can be implemented in schools in Latin America.
The strategy of the initiative on New Models in Healthcare Delivery builds upon the initial Delivery Models research discussions presented at the World Economic Forum on India, November 2008, the
Healthcare Governors Meeting, Annual Meeting in Davos 2009 and the meeting on New Models in Healthcare Delivery held at the World Economic Forum on Latin America, April 2009.
At the Healthcare Governors Meeting Dr. Dzau from Duke University Health Systems and Jean-Michel Halfon, Emerging Markets, Pfizer the urgency and rationale of this topic.
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Healthcare is already global but the challenges are somewhat different between the developed and developing countries.
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Healthcare spending is approaching a negative tipping point. The current model of high-cost and reimbursement-driven healthcare in developed countries is not sustainable.
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Poor access to healthcare for the majority of the population in developing countries. This adversely affects the well-being of these populations,
stunts their economic growth, and limits markets accessible to healthcare products.
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Strengthening innovative health systems contributes to
improving the health of the world’s underserved; but it could also help grow new markets for
healthcare products in these developing economies.
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Developed market systems can learn from emerging market innovations. Doing more with less and possibly disrupting entrenched delivery systems in the process.
The World Economic Forum meeting on Latin America narrowed down areas for further work and recognized that identifying and documenting health care delivery models
is necessary while there is a need to find an effective mechanism to transfer information to inspiration and knowledge for implementation of models if best practices
are to spread. This conclusion was based on experiences from Vera Cordeiro, Founder of Renascer. They are willing to train people from other countries, have developed
manuals and implementation strategies for replication in English and have been recognized internationally for the effective and innovative delivery model. Despite the
tools for replication and a broad international network, has the model only been brought to the United States and still not to any of the emerging markets where the model is needed.
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