SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

 

Ghana was recently recognised by the United Nations Development Programme and the World Health Organisation and awarded at its 2010 Global South-South Development Exposition for successful innovation for scaling up coverage under its health insurance scheme and fitting into broad development agenda, the world was put on notice: Finally an African and developing country success story to share with a possible global application.

While the rest of the world has an appreciation of this achievement, the question is still being asked by many African and developing countries as to the exact nature of social health insurance in general and what is unique about the Ghana health insurance that made it successful. How may the lessons apply in their different contexts? For some countries, there is a black out on information. Almost every dissemination mechanism used to date is in English leaving several African and developing countries in the dark. Thirdly, attempts by some international and civil society organisations to tell the story has led to distortions, inter-institutional hegemony over who had the greatest influence and undermining the opportunity for others to learn from the Ghana experience.

The Pan African Health Congress on Universal Coverage now invites you to join in the discussions
We look forward to our international experts making arguments pro and contra.
The Call for Abstracts is now open for submissions. If you wish to submit an abstract for consideration by the Program Committee, you must also intend to register for the Congress. Registrations must be completed by end of September 2011 to enable presentations to be included in the final program.

On-line submission is the only method of receipt of abstracts.
The abstracts will be judged anonymously by reviewers on the clarity and appropriateness of the originality, aims, materials and methods, results and conclusions. A value will be awarded for each of these criteria and the overall scores are used to select abstracts for presentation.

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