Keynote: A deep dive into accessible health and how we can achieve it

Our esteemed keynote speaker, Dr. Mariam Jashi, Global Board Member of the UNITE Parliamentarians’ Network for Global Health, Secretary General of the Medical Women’s International Association and Chair of the Advisory Board at Tbilisi Medical Academy in Georgia provided a national and regional viewpoint on humanising healthcare and the importance of patient engagement and collaboration across multiple stakeholders.

KEY TAKEAWAY:

There needs to be optimum alignment and synergy of the interests, rights, and resource capacities between all healthcare stakeholders to ensure a truly inclusive, equitable, holistic and human-centred approach to universal healthcare. To be most effective, partnerships need to be based on shared responsibility, mutual accountability, and empowerment. There also exists a real need for better policy instruments to help engage patients in policy making to co-create healthcare policies that meet current needs.

Session glossary:

Civil Society Organizations (CSO), Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH), A minimum of 4 Antenatal Care visits for pregnant women (4 + ANC), Child vaccination with 3 doses of Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (DPT3), Insecticide-Treated Nets for Malaria prevention (ITNs), Fasting Plasma Glucose levels (FPG)