Secretariat IHF Secretariat says Good bye to Dwight Moe Mr. Dwight Moe, having worked five years as Project and Event Manager, left the IHF in December 2009, to pursue other career goals. Read more
IHF international relations and activities The International Hospital Federation (IHF) online tuberculosis manual toolkit for hospital decision-makers presented at Lilly MDR-TB Partnership Sixth Annual Summit, 2-4 December 2009, Cancun, Mexico The IHF, represented by Sheila Anazonwu, Programme Development & Knowledge Manager, presented to partners of the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership and attendees of the 40th Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease International Conference its online tuberculosis manual toolkit for hospital decision makers. Read more
Migration of Health Workers In conjunction with the WHO-HPH Task Force on Migrant-Friendly and Culturally Competent Health Care, COST, the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research organized a meeting on November, 26-27, 2009, about migration of health workers. Read more
World Economic Forum: Towards a Charter on Global Health Data Availability of information is a prerequisite to health systems improvement which would allow setting priorities, allocating resources, assessing effectiveness and performance, and promoting accountability. Recognized as a cornerstone to any health reform in the developed world, availability of information also plays a key role in helping emerging countries priorities interventions. IHF participated to a workshop held on December 10th, 2009, in Cologny, Switzerland. Read more
International Conference on Safe Hospitals: launch of the One Million Safe Schools and Hospital Campaign This conference was held on December 2-3, 2009, in Manila. IHF was represented by Eric de Roodenbeke, CEO. The event also featured the launching of the One Million Safe Schools and Hospitals Campaign organized by ISDR, WHO and partner agencies. Read more
Membership corner
IHF sadly announces the death of Dr. Juljan Dieter Czapski, Vice-President and governing council member of the IHF from 1991 to 1997 Dr. Juljan Dieter Czapski passed away on 12 January 2010. Dr. Czapski was IHF Vice-President and Governing Council member for Brazil from 1991-1997, during which period he was also Technical Director of FENAESS (Brazilian National Federation of Health Services Establishments). As IHF Vice-President, Dr. Czapski represented the IHF at Pan-American Health conferences as well as Regional Committee meetings of the World Health Organization. Read more
French Hospital Federation renews mandate of Gérard Vincent The Governing Council of the French Hospital Federation, at its meeting of 20 January 2010, voted for renewal of Mr. Gérard Vincent’s mandate as Director General, for another 3-year period. Read more
IHF events
IHF 37th World Hospital Congress, 29-31 March 2011, Dubai IHF 37th World Hospital Congress is formulated on the theme ‘Shifting Paradigms: Anticipating the Ethical Challenges of New Health Technologies and Procedures in Globalizing World’ with the motto of ‘Developing Ethics in Hospitals and Health Services’. Read more
WHO round up
Breaking news on health Health Resources Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS)
The Global Health Cluster developed a tool (HeRAMS) to be used as soon as possible and throughout the duration of a crisis for the collection, collation and analysis of health sector information for each facility, mobile clinic or site with community-based interventions in order to monitor the availability of resources.Read more
From International Organizations
JCI marks ten years of Global Accreditation
Joint Commission International (JCI) is marking the tenth anniversary of the first health care organization to be awarded accreditation under its globally developed international standards for hospitals. Read more
Intergovernmental organizations Healthcare quality indicators project : Patient safety Indicators report 2009
OECD health Working Papers are designed to make available to a wider readership health studies prepared for use within the OECD. This time, S. Drösler, P. Romano and L. Wei report on the progress in the research and development of the set of patient safety indicators developed by the Health Care Quality Indicators project. Read more
Hospital and Health Services World News
Provision of secondary care in fragile state contexts This article of The Lancet, Volume 375, Issue 9711, January 2010, written by F. Campbell and L. Doull, addresses the case for provision of secondary care in the particular contexts of fragile state. Read more
Support Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking The ‘SUPPORT tools for evidence-informed health policymaking’ were recently published as a supplement in Health Research Policy and Systems. This open access publication provides a set of tools that can be used by those involved in finding and using research evidence to support evidence-informed health policymaking.Read more
Africa Who are Health Managers? A case study from three African countries This publication, WHO, Human Resources for Health Observer - Issue No. 1, October 2009,
co-funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), summarizes the findings of a study lead in Ethiopia, Ghana and United Republic of Tanzania. It looked at who the managers are and what their backgrounds are as well as whether they have effective support systems in an enabling organizational environment. Read more
Europe Immigrants’ Access to Ambulatory Care in France This article was published by the Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics, Question d’Economie de la Santé, n° 146, September 2009. It was written by P. Dourgnon, F. Jusot, C. Sermet and J. Silva. Read more
Migration and Health in Norvegia : challenges and trends The report was published by Helsedirektoratet, the Norwegian Directorate of Health in May 2009. Read more
Diversity and equality of opportunity: Fundamentals for effective action in the microcosm of the health care institution This manual, Published by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) in collaboration with H+ Swiss Hospital Association, aims to provide the administrators of Swiss health care institutions – hospitals, clinics and long-term-care facilities – with practical support in addressing the societal issues surrounding diversity and migration. Read more
Spanish health district tests a new public–private mix This article was published in the Bulletin of the WHO, Volume 87, Number 12, December 2009. Mireia Bes reports from Valencia on a new model for managing public hospitals. Read more
International Events
Geneva Health Forum: Globalization, Crisis and Health Systems: Confronting Regional Perspectives, 19-21 April 2010, International Conference Center, Geneva Read more
Healthcon 2010 : Multiple Dimensions of Healthcare, Australian Healthcare and Hospital Association Congress, Adelaide, 22-24 September 2010 Read more
National Healthcare Leadership Conference, Canada, June 7-8 2010 Read more
European Health Management Association (EHMA) annual Conference, 30 June-2 July, Lahti, Finland Read more
First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Switzerland, 16-19 November 2010, Call for abstract Read more
Hôpital Expo, May 2010, 18-21, Paris, « Porte de Versailles » Read more
NHS Confederation Annual Conference and Exhibition, June 23-25, Liverpool, United Kingdom Read more
Health, Crisis and Reform: Equity and Social Exclusion. Buenos Aires, October, 20th Read more
The Environmental Health: Global Perspectives and Challenges; Conceive, Design, Deliver. April, 4th and 5th, 2010, Dubai. Read more
