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3378.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM | |||
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| This panel looks at different ways to make health care more accessible and ultimately more affordable. Whether through specific treatment strategies or different financial mechanisms, the need to find alternatives to the high cost of health services is inevitable. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Participants will understand the importance of looking critically at the issues of financing and sustainability, particularly cost effectiveness of the proposed interventions. | |||
| A.K. Nandakumar, PhD | |||
| Introductory Remarks | |||
| Developing a Basic Package of Health Services for Afghanistan Peter Salama, MBBS, MPH, William Newbrander, PhD, Ferozuddin Feroz, Dr, Abdullah Sherzai, MD | |||
Decentralized Community-Controlled Financing of Primary Health Care Shows Cost-Efficiency in Peru ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Laura C. Altobelli, DrPH, MPH, Ana Sovero-Utrilla, MS, MPH, Ricardo Diaz-Romero, MD, MHA | |||
| Withdrawn -- Overcoming barriers in the political environment to achieve sustainability: The case of donor phase-out in Turkey Jeffrey Sine, PhD, Maureen Clyde, BA, Zerrin Baser, MD | |||
| Introducing Alternative Treatment Strategies for STIs in Jamaica: What is Cost Effective? Carol S. Shepherd, ScD, MS, MS, Lori Bollinger, PhD, Margaret Rowan, MBA, CPA, Kathy McClure, MPH | |||
| Possible effects of National Health Insurance on preference and actual outpatient visits in Taiwan Nan-Shen Chen, Hsing-Yi Chang, Shu-Fang Shih, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Yaw-Tang Shih | |||
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| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | International Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | Chiropractic Health Care; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||