Jorge Alejandro García MD

MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing LSE/LSHTM, Chevening Scholarship ⚕️🌎 Medical doctor and social entrepreneur 🇨🇴🇨🇴

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

UHC watch – tracking affordable access to health care in Europe and central Asia https://t.co/kA62FpFWOG a través de @YouTube

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

Ahora en Bluesky. Sígueme y dime si estás allí //Now in Bluesky. Follow me and let me know of you're there

https://t.co/dDYeZwNYSE

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

What can countries do to make health care more affordable for people in Europe?

Join a webinar hosted by hosted by DG SANTE @EU_Health & #WHOBarcelona

📅Tuesday 4 June 2024
⏰ 10.00-12.00 CEST

Register now 👉 https://t.co/nxhhWdSezX

#EUHealth #EUHPP @sarahmsthomson @joncylus

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

Let's put the message clear out there. There is no evidence supporting using user charges as a good tool to rationing health care. They harm people! #WHOBarcelona #UHC @mylene_lagarde @sarahmsthomson @WHO_Europe

[sarahthomson.bsky.social @sarahmsthomson]

Thursday 15 June, 1100-1230

Can Lisa afford to pay for medicines?

Speakers:
@TamasEvetovits @TayaraAl #WHOBarcelona
Gintaras Kacevicius National Health Insurance Fund #Lithuania
Kaija Kasekamp #Estonia
@nedamk @IAPOvoice
@smoldoisaeva @WHOKyrgyzstan
@drsarahgarner @WHO_Europe

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

Agenda for Day 1 ⏲🖐

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

Today! The #WHOBarcelona Forum on #FinancialProtection welcomes more than 100 international health financing experts from 35 countries in Europe. #UHC @WHO_Europe @sarahmsthomson

Live streaming 📹 https://t.co/OYNOmKw8MZ
Program➡️ https://t.co/u5YEDSQRD5

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

Drawing on evidence and good practice, we will explore key issues around #CoveragePolicy – the way in which health coverage is designed and implemented.

Connect online to:
• Explore what needs to change and why
• Learn from good policies to make progress towards #UHC

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

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[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

@WHOUkraine @HabichtJarno @WHO_Europe @hans_kluge @WHO @UN @UN_Ukraine @EUDelegationUA @eu_near @sarahmsthomson @TamasEvetovits

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

Happy to have contributed to the Ukrianian policy dialogue discussing how to improve financial protection in the country. #WHOBarcelona @sarahmsthomson

[WHO Ukraine @WHOUkraine]

WHO officials have presented a report “Can people afford to pay for health care? New evidence on financial protection in Ukraine”

It is an analysis of financial protection in 🇺🇦 before the war escalation, covering the period from 2009 to 2021 & the health reform impact since2017

[sarahthomson.bsky.social @sarahmsthomson]

NEW @WHO_Europe report on financial protection in Belgium 🇧🇪 is out now in the #WHOBarcelona series on affordable access to health care

Around 5% of Belgian households experienced catastrophic health spending in 2020 – why & what can be done to bring this number down? 🧵

[José Cerezo @JosCerezo14]

We will produce a country case study to document Spain´s history of PHC reforms so other countries can learn from such experience, as well as identifying pressing challenges and solutions to move forward.

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

Today is UHC day! Health for all!

[sarahthomson.bsky.social @sarahmsthomson]

On #UHCDay @WHO_Europe calls on countries to learn from previous shocks and prevent out-of-pocket payments for health care from pushing people into poverty this winter - especially people affected by conflict and low-income households

https://t.co/8JL1FKfst4

[Lynn Al Tayara @TayaraAl]

The #WHOBarcelona Office is working with national technical experts from Kazakhstan to monitor financial protection and analyze coverage policy. Great to work with such an engaged team interpreting results and understanding the story behind the numbers @WHO_Europe

[José Cerezo @JosCerezo14]

@joncylus highlighting that having few formal user charges might not necessarily mean low catastrophic spending. Possible explanations: low public funding? People unaware of entitlements? Narrow benefit package (BP)?Outpatient medicines excluded from BP?#WHOBarcelona

[José Cerezo @JosCerezo14]

#WHOBarcelona is working closely with these countries which (in most cases) are generating equity-sensitive and actionable information on financial protection-a key dimension of #UHC- for the first time. To ACT effectively you should MONITOR effectively.

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

@TamasEvetovits @natasha_azzmus @hans_kluge

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

TODAY, representatives from 9 countries in eastern Europe and central Asia are meeting in Tbilisi 🇬🇪, to improve their capacity to monitor financial protection for universal health coverage at a workshop led by #WHOBarcelona #UHC #FinancialProtection @sarahmsthomson @WHO_Europe

[Jorge Alejandro García MD @docalejorgito]

Trainers are technical experts from #WHOBarcelona, @OBShealth, WHO Headquarters and Consulting group Curatio. @joncylus @TayaraAl @JosCerezo14 @vladgordeev @bakkazieva @marinakaranikol @VDimkovski