The provisional program-schedule of the 22nd World Congress is on-line but here is a summary of the five panels organized by RC25 – followed by information on another panel organized by SG19.

8 July (Sunday) 15.00-16.45

Policy Analysis, Health Politics and Policy Change: Values, Ideas and Policies

(Chair: Theodore Marmor; Co-chair & Discussant: Shelby Hockenberry; Discussant: Pieter Fourie)

SCHOOL OF PHARMACY / FACULTAD DE FARMACIA - Classroom 223

·         Reforms and New Public Management in the French Healthcare System (Monika Steffen)

·         Cross-border Perceptions of US and Canadian Health Care Systems (François Petry; Nadeau Richard; Éric Bélanger)

·         Divided and Universal: Gradual Changes in Japanese Health Insurance (Ryozo Matsuda)

·         Fertilize This: Comparing Decision-making Processes in the Regulation of Infertility Treatments Provision in Canada and Britain (Audrey L’Espérance)

·         Pay for Performance: Physician’s Involvement in P4P System Design (Christiaan Lako; Pauline Rosenau)

·         Politics and Policy Analysis: The Field of “Collective Health” in Brazil (Jeni Vaitsman; José Mendes Ribeiro; Lenaura Lobato)

 

9 July (Monday) 09.00-10.45 

Comparative Health Policy: Foundations, Foibles and Futures

(Chair: James Björkman; Discussant: Christa Altenstetter)

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM / FACULTAD DE CIENCAS DE LA INFORMACION - Classroom 8   

·         Abortion in Western European Health Systems (Deborah McFarlane, Dominika Ornatowska)

·         "Consumer-driven Health Care" in Switzerland and The Netherlands: Much Discussed, but Much Misunderstood (Kieke Okma)

·         Critique of Basic Universalism: Guidelines for Comparative Research between Chile and Argentina (Paula Ferro Ariella; Marisol Mancini)

·         Federalism and Social Justice in Health Financing and Provision in Brazil (Nilson Costa)

·         Marketization of Public Health Services? Comparing Public Hospital Service Policies in Germany and France via their Instrumentation (Renate Reiter)

·         The Promises and Pitfalls of Comparative Policy Studies in Health Care (Theodore Marmor)

 

9 July (Monday) 11.00-12.45

Policy Analysis, Health Politics & Policy Change: Arguments, Evidence and Policies

(Chair: Monika Steffen; Co-chair: Jeni Vaitsman; Discussants: Iris Geva-May; Lenaura Lobato)

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM / FACULTAD DE CIENCAS DE LA INFORMACION - Classroom 8

·          Coalitions of Policy Change in Health Care and Public Health (Dorte Hering)

·         Constructing Knowledge on Hospital Activity in France: A Co-production of State and Academia (Renaud Gay)

·         Health Policy and Health Reform in Russia: Problem Solving or Problem Making? (Tatiana Chubarova; Natalia Grigorieva)

·         Hygiene Inspection Disclosure System as an Instrument to Improve Public Health (Anne Lévy; Markus Gmür)

·         Introducing Economic and Managerial Knowledge within Health Policy instruments: France, England and Germany (Magali Robelet; Patrick Hassenteufel; Daniel Benamouzig)

·         The Role of Evidence in HIV Policy in Switzerland: A Success Story? (Kathrin Frey)

 

9 July (Monday) 13.00-14.45

The Changing Architecture of Global Health Governance

(Chair: Pieter Fourie; Co-chair: Pauline Rosenau; Discussant: Kieke Okma)

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM / FACULTAD DE CIENCAS DE LA INFORMACION - Classroom 8  

·         Global Health Governance and the African Postcolonial State (Ricardo Pereira)

·         Global Health Regimes in Promoting Policy Transfer: The Role of the WHO and Private Actors in the Diffusion of E-health Policies (Achim Lang)

·         Regulatory Policy of Medical Technology. Demystifying the Role of the FDA, 1976-2011 (Christa Altenstetter)

·         The Emergence of Surge Capacities in Pandemics: A Comparative Epidemic Policy Analysis from SARS to H1N1 in Taiwan and Singapore (Allen Lai)

·         The Impact of Economic Uncertainty and Grant Mismanagement on the Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Addressing Global Health Policy: The Global Fund in Times of Change (Shelby Hockenberry)

·         The Politics of Pre-Empting Poor Pharmaceutical Patents: Brazil, India, and Beyond (Kenneth Shadlen)

 

9 July (Monday) 15.00-16.45

Patient Empowerment and Democratic Policy: Political Challenges and Theoretical Issues (co-sponsored by RC25 & RC32)

(Chair: Fabrizio Cantelli; Co-chair: James Björkman; Discussant: Naonori Kodate)

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM / FACULTAD DE CIENCAS DE LA INFORMACION - Classroom 12

·         Broadening the Patient Safety Discourse: Theorizing Patient and Public Involvement as Empowerment (Josephine Ocloo)

·         Consumer Empowerment in U.S. Federal Government Health Sector Organizations (Pauline Rosenau, Christina Daw; David Buck)

·         Is Empowerment Possible in Professional Practice? (Per-Anders Tengland)

·         Perceived Ethnicity: Reversing the Patient-Provider Relationship (Dorothée Prud'homme)

·         Reforming the Welfare State in the Age of Financial Crises: How Personalization of Social Care is Quietly Revolutionizing Welfare Provision (Barry Macleod-Cullinane)

·         Towards a Politics of Vitality: New Ways to Understand Patients’ Activism (Jorge Castillo Sepúlveda; Patricia Núñez; Francisco Tirado)

 

ADDITIONAL PANEL FROM RESEARCH COMMITTEE 19 ON GENDER POLITICS & POLICY

12 July (Thursday) 11.00-12.45

Comparative Health Politics and Policy (Chair: Patrick Hassenteufel)

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM / FACULTAD DE CIENCAS DE LA INFORMACION - Classroom 13

·         A Fresh Look at Health Legacy Foundations: Philanthropy, Public Policy and Hospital Conversions in the Aftermath of the ACA (Sabrina Niggel; William Brandon)

·         Health Care Governance in Federal Systems: Can Europe's Experimental Governance Models Work in Canada? (Katherine Fierlbeck)

·         Introducing Economic and Managerial Knowledge within Health Policy Instruments: A Comparison between France, England & Germany (Patrick Hassenteufel) – NB: identical title in RC25 panel on 9 July at 11.00

·         Japan’s Healthcare Reform from a Comparative Perspective (Toshiyuki Nishikawa)

·         The Effects of Contracts on Health Policy: The Case of Primary Health Care in Spain (Rosario Morillo Balado)

 

Note: the author of this panel’s second paper – Katherine Fierlbeck, Professor at Canada’s Dalhousie University – is an RC25 member and last year published Health Care in Canada: A Citizen’s Guide to Policy and Politics (University of Toronto Press, 2011), ISBN 9781442609839. Its blurb notes that the book examines the pressures faced by the Canadian health care system [and] explores how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.