High-level regional meeting: Health systems respond to NCDs: experience of the European Region: Sitges, Spain, 16–18 April 2018: briefing note for presenters and panellists
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This briefing note was prepared for presenters and panellists at the High-level regional meeting on “Health systems respond to NCDs: the European experience”, held in Sitges, Spain on 16–18 April 2018. The objectives of the High-level regional meeting were: to discuss policy directions and country experiences for a comprehensive and aligned health system response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs); to highlight the equity and gender dimensions of health system transformation for better NCD outcomes, including those left behind by traditional, mainstream approaches; to explore the possibility of accelerating health system transformation for faster reductions in premature NCD mortality (leapfrogging); and to tease out factors that have enabled successful, large-scale health system transformations. This note provides background information for the above and summarizes the policy directions proposed for discussion by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. These policy directions are based on five years of multidisciplinary and contextualized country work in the WHO European Region. Country-based good practices featured extensively at the meeting and in the regional synthesis report. The note is organized around the following topics: (1) NCD trends in the WHO European Region; (2) the status of core NCD interventions and services; (3) a comprehensive and aligned health system response to NCDs; (4) equity-enhancing policies in the health system response to NCDs; (5) opportunities and challenges for leapfrogging in the health system response to NCDs; and (6) leading large-scale system transformation.
This briefing note was prepared for presenters and panellists at the High-level regional meeting on “Health systems respond to NCDs: the European experience”, held in Sitges, Spain on 16–18 April 2018. The objectives of the High-level regional meeting were: to discuss policy directions and country experiences for a comprehensive and aligned health system response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs); to highlight the equity and gender dimensions of health system transformation for better NCD outcomes, including those left behind by traditional, mainstream approaches; to explore the possibility of accelerating health system transformation for faster reductions in premature NCD mortality (leapfrogging); and to tease out factors that have enabled successful, large-scale health system transformations. This note provides background information for the above and summarizes the policy directions proposed for discussion by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. These policy directions are based on five years of multidisciplinary and contextualized country work in the WHO European Region. Country-based good practices featured extensively at the meeting and in the regional synthesis report. The note is organized around the following topics: (1) NCD trends in the WHO European Region; (2) the status of core NCD interventions and services; (3) a comprehensive and aligned health system response to NCDs; (4) equity-enhancing policies in the health system response to NCDs; (5) opportunities and challenges for leapfrogging in the health system response to NCDs; and (6) leading large-scale system transformation.