iHEA has a number of upcoming webinars, which you can register for by following the links below!

Economics of COVID-19: Exploring key issues of impact on the economy

Measuring financial protection for chronic illness in low- and middle-income countries

Thursday, April 9th, 2020
8:00 AM ET - check your timezone online here
Speaker: Adrianna Murphy

Presented by the Financing for Universal Health Coverage SIG

Objective: To reflect on implications and challenges of various approaches to measuring financial protection for chronic illness in low- and middle-income countries.

The Sustainable Development Goal 3, Target 8, aims to achieve Universal Health Coverage for all, including financial protection. Efforts to monitor financial protection use indicators of catastrophic spending and impoverishment that may not accurately reflect the economic burden experienced by households in low- and middle-income countries, particularly for those suffering from chronic illness. This webinar will present experiences and preliminary findings from i) implementing household pictorial expenditure diaries, alongside traditional household expenditure surveys, in a sample of people with chronic non-communicable diseases in Tanzania, South Africa and Zimbabwe, ii) using an alternative measure of catastrophic spending to those in the SDGs, proposed by WHO Europe, in a survey of 18 countries at all levels of development and iii) conducting qualitative research on the impact of distress financing on households with chronic NCDs in Zimbabwe.

Assessing technical efficiency of health systems and programs: A discussion of traditional and new approaches

Friday, April 24, 2020
9:00 AM ET - check your timezone online here
Speakers: Cathy Cantelmo; Arin Dutta; David Khaoya; Rebecca Ross

Presented by the Healthy Systems' Efficiency Special Interest Group

This webinar, presented by experts from Palladium, shall begin with a review of traditional methodologies to assess technical efficiency of health services, such as data envelopment analysis and stochastic distance function. The review will include a presentation of an analysis of efficiency in for-profit hospitals in Indonesia, as well as a discussion of limitations of such analyses. Palladium will then present two examples of new approaches to assessing technical efficiency that aim to overcome challenges in using technical efficiency analyses for programmatic and resource allocation decision-making. This includes a presentation of a new tool for assessing technical efficiency of family planning programs and a study conducted at the county-level in Kenya. The presentation shall conclude with applications of emerging approaches and the need for further research.

Methods for incorporating equity into economic evaluation

Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
8:00 AM ET - check your timezone online here
Speakers: Richard Cookson; Stéphane Verguet 

Presented by the Equity informative economic evaluation Special Interest Group

Equity in health and healthcare is an area of growing global policy interest. Health economists are familiar with well-established economic evaluation methods that provide information about the efficiency of alternative healthcare and public health decisions in terms of aggregate costs and benefits. However, there is now a growing literature and interest in using the methods of economic evaluation to provide information about equity in the distribution of costs and benefits. 

Our first webinar will provide an introduction to some of the key principles and methods of equity-informative health economic evaluation. We will then be running a second webinar to showcase some empirical applications to health policy in low- and middle-income countries. 

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