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IHF NEWSLETTER Conference and events calendar IHF EVENTS 2005 10-12 September International Medical Care and Diagnostic 20-22 September 34th International Hospital Congress * Conference and Exhibition – IMD Nice, France Dubai, UAE dwight@ihf-fih.org index@emirates.net.ae or dwight@ihf-fih.org www.nice2005-ihf-fhf.fr www.hospitalmanagement.net/ihf/events.html 2006 9-10 January 2-5 April Anti-Smoking Regional Conference Regional Conference Kuwait Taipei, Taiwan dwight@ihf-fih.org dwight@ihf-fih.org www.hospitalmanagement.net/ihf/events.html www.hospitalmanagement.net/ihf/events.html 15-17 May MCC Hospital World 2006 Hotel Radisson SAS Cologne, Germany dwight@ihf-fih.org or mcc@mcc-seminare.de www.hospitalmanagement.net/ihf/events.html/www.mcc-seminare.de 2007 5-9 November 35th International Hospital Congress * Seoul, Korea www.hospitalmanagement.net/ihf/events.html COLLABORATIVE EVENTS 2005 13 - 15 May 29 - 30 September Medic Africa Hospital Management Asia Corinthia Bab Hotel, Tripoli, Libya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia sheila@ihf-fih.org or info@fsg.co.uk sheila@ihf-fih.org or ashok@optionsinfo.com October Medic Africa Kampala, Uganda sheila@ihf-fih.org or info@fsg.co.uk/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT : IHF Project & Event Manager, International Hospital Federation, Immeuble JB Say, 13 Chemin du Levant, 01210 Ferney Voltaire, France E-Mail: dwight@ihf-fih.org Or visit the IHF website: www.hospitalmanagement.net/ihf/events.html Events marked * are interpreted into English, French and Spanish. All other events will be in English/host country language only. IHF members will automatically receive brochures and registration forms on all the above events approximately six months before the start date. IHF members will be entitled to a discount on IHF congresses, pan-regional conferences and field study courses. 06 | World Hospitals and Health Services | Vol. 40 No. 4
IHF NEWSLETTER International news round up WORLD WHO announces theme of World Health Day 2005 HIGHLIGHTING AN INVISIBLE HEALTH CRISIS, the World Health Organization (WHO) is making maternal and child health the focus of World Health Day on 7 April 2005. The WHO is also launching the World Health Report – also dedicated to maternal and child health – on World Health Day for the first time ever. In developing countries, pregnancy and childbirth is one of the leading causes of death for women of reproductive age, and one child in 12 does not reach his or her fifth birthday. Yet, the fate of these women and children is too often overlooked or ignored. The slogan for World Health Day 2005 ‘Make Every Mother and Child Count’ reflects the reality that today, governments and the international community need to make the health of women and children a higher priority. World Health Day 2005 Make every mother and child count Launch of new alliance to improve global patient safety A SERIES OF KEY ACTIONS to cut the number of illnesses, injuries and deaths suffered by patients during health care was announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners on 27 October 2004 with the launch of the World Alliance for Patient Safety under the chairmanship of Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom. The creation of the World Alliance comes two years after the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly Resolution on Patient Safety in 2002 called on Member States to pay the closest possible attention to the problem of patient safety and to establish and strengthen science-based systems necessary for improving patient safety and quality of health care, including the monitoring of drugs, medical equipment and technology. The Alliance has a firm objective to deliver six programmes within the next two years: ➜ a key element will be the Global Patient Safety Challenge, focusing over 2005-2006 on the challenge of health care associated infection; ➜ Patients for Patient Safety involving patient organisations and individuals in Alliance work; ➜ Taxonomy for Patient Safety ensuring consistency in the concepts, principles, norms and terminology used in patient safety work; ➜ Research for Patient Safety developing a rapid assessment tool for use in developing countries and undertaking global prevalence studies of adverse effects; ➜ Solutions for Patient Safety promoting existing interventions and coordinating activity internationally to ensure new solutions are delivered; ➜ Reporting and Learning generating best practice guidelines for existing and new reporting systems, and facilitating early learning from information available. The World Alliance for Patient Safety will build on existing national efforts and initiatives sharing the same vision and link with programmes for improving patient safety. It is expected that its work will eventually lead to much greater long-term safety in health care. For more information contact: Pauline Philip, Patient Safety Unit WHO/Geneva; philipp@who.int Global Forum addresses disparities in health research The World Health Day 2005 website, includes a toolkit for organisers of World Health Day activities and the World Health Day slogan and design shown above. For more information see: www.who.int/entity/world-healthday/2005/en THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING of the Global Forum for Health Research, was held in Mexico City, 16–20 November 2004 in conjunction with the WHO Ministerial Summit on Health Research and brought together over 700 participants from government, intergovernmental organisations, NGOs, the private sector, researchers and research councils to consider ‘health research to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)’. The forum found that the vicious circle of poverty and ill health at which the MDGs are targeted will not be broken without intensified effort to close the continuing ‘10/90 gap’. In many developing countries, efforts for poverty eradication have been undermined by deterioration in the population’s health. The attainment of the MDG poverty target will depend on increased research directed to the health needs of those living in absolute poverty, and to improving access to affordable products and services in a variety of settings. Health policy and systems research and social sciences, behavioural and operational research are vital to this aim. Vol. 40 No. 4 WORLD | World hospitals Hospitals and and health Health services Services | 13| 07
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