Health: Management, service care and financing I

Today it was inaugurated the seminar organized by the CISS. Presentation will be posted in the CISS web page, nevertheless in this blog during the next few days we would like to highlight the most important lessons that apply for all countries (country´s experiences can be download from the page). In its presentation Dr. Freire from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III stressed that: i) the current situation, global economic crisis and a possible reform to the USA health care system, will have a significant impact on the future of health systems around the world; ii) nevertheless, it has been proved that public financing is the only way to reach universal coverage (private financing is ineffective for these purposes); iii) social security and public services should complement each other; the former has been in the history of the world the way health systems have developed.