An Integrated Health Care Delivery System for Haiti

Title: An Integrated Health Care Delivery System for Haiti

Overview:

As Haiti has continued to develop, it faces the double burden of communicable disease and chronic disease. A rapidly growing population with a high percentage of young people, Haiti’s increasingly elderly population is often overlooked. Poor healthcare infrastructure is one of the biggest barriers to development in Haiti, but finding financial resources, and a pathway to provide better access and better health care for populations has been elusive.

In the past, most foreign aid directed at healthcare Haiti has been for immediate needs, such as managing the cholera epidemic. There has been little provision to address the underlying, fractured healthcare delivery systems, plagued by or lack of coordination, misalignment of incentives, and inefficient allocation of resources. This panel will explore a paradigm shift in Haiti towards investment in an integrated delivery system. – building the workforce, establishing comprehensive primary care services, and ensuring accountability. provide a long-term and holistic analysis of sustainable health systems.

  • Strengthen the work force
  • Embrace data and information to transform health and care.
  • Innovate healthcare delivery
  • Increase access
  • Improve population health
  • Manage costs

Moderator: Marjorie Pierre Brennan, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Children’s National Health System

Participants:

  • Paul Pierre MD, MPH, Deputy Medical Director, Partners in Health, Boston, MA
  • Nancy Charles Larco, MD, Medecine Interne, Maladies metaboliques, Bois-Verna Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  • Lee D. Jacobs, MD, Bethesda Referral & Teaching Hospital, Inc., Port Lafito, Haiti