About the Conference
ORIGIN OF CONFERENCES
In response to requests from Caribbean governments to ‘do more in health’, Heads of Caribbean Social Security Organizations at their 17th General Meeting (Belize City, June 2006) agreed to establish a Caribbean forum for discussing approaches, challenges and lessons learnt in addressing health financing matters.
As such, these Health Financing Conferences have been organized to share knowledge, test ideas, and learn from those who have responsibility for planning or administering health financing initiatives.
Recognizing that knowledge in health and related health financing matters do not reside with a single professional group, the Conferences have actively expanded participation by involving experts and officials with first-hand health experience from international organizations, Ministries of Health, health insurers, third party administrators, as well as health services networks, research agencies, IT companies and academic institutions.
PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
The eleven (11) previous Conferences were hosted by and held in:-
Year |
Location |
Hosts |
2006 |
Turks & Caicos Islands |
National Insurance Board (NIB) |
2007 |
Aruba |
General Health Insurance (AZV) |
2008 |
Trinidad & Tobago |
National Insurance Board (NIB) & Ministry of Health (MOH) |
2009 |
St Maarten |
Department of Public Health (DPH) |
2010 |
Belize |
Social Security Board (SSB) |
2011 |
Bermuda |
Bermuda Health Council (BHEC) & Health Insurance Department (HID) |
2012 |
Curacao |
Social Insurance Bank (SVB) |
2013 |
Jamaica |
National Health Fund (NHF) |
2014 |
Trinidad &Tobago |
The University of the West Indies, HEU, Centre for Health Economics (UWI-HEU) |
2015 |
Turks & Caicos Islands |
National Health Insurance Board (NHIB) |
2016 |
Bonaire |
Health Insurance Office (ZVK) |
DEBRIEFING NOTE FROM 11TH CONFERENCE
The attached Debriefing Note (2016) summarizes the main presentations, issues and suggestions from the 11th Conference, which was held in Bonaire.
Debriefing Note 11th Conference
THE 12TH CONFERENCE
This year’s Conference is hosted by the State Health Insurance Foundation (SZF) of Surinam—the national agency with almost four (4) decades of experience in the health insurance business and now responsible for managing the universal health insurance plans for the country.
As in past Conferences with different themes, this year we will be continuing our focus from the 11th Conference on ‘Health Financing: Strategic Management, Spending Wisely-2’ with particular attention to chronic diseases, hospital, pharmaceutical and catastrophic care.
Invitation Letter 12th Conference
As can be seen from the Program/Agenda, we have a well-planned mix of:--
- feature papers, panel discussions and expert commentaries;
- Caribbean and non-Caribbean speakers;
- new and experienced presenters;
- and, of course, the full benefits of open one-on-one sharing of insights, experiences and suggestions from participants during and outside Conference hours.
