Workshop Summary: PHRplus Community-Based Health Financing Coordination Meeting. Information Sharing, Key Findings, Knowledge-Building Needs

摘要

PHRplus held a workshop on January 30, 2002 to discuss the work PHRplus has done with community-based health insurance/financing (CBHI/F). The purpose of the meeting was to exchange information, reflect on lessons learned, identify outstanding questions, and promote better information sharing across the project. The team recognized the continuing need for technical assistance to CBHI/F schemes especially in the areas of financial management and training. The team also concluded that as the schemes become larger and multiply, technical assistance must be provided in a more economical way. Given the experience PHRplus has in the field of CBHI/F schemes, workshop participants felt that facilitating information sharing on this subject is crucial. The idea of creating a portion of the website for best practices and discussion on the CBHI/F schemes was one such idea for promoting exchange. Workshop participants recognized that it is important to learn as much as possible from the activities PHRplus is undertaking presently. Monitoring and evaluation of technical assistance and some in-depth research into CBHI/F is needed.