Health systems in southern Mediterranean countries are undergoing an endemic crisis. All health sector workers, users and investors agree that current health policies are incapable of satisfying the needs of the populations concerned. Southern Mediterranean countries therefore face major common challenges over the next 20 years: to develop health policies adapted to the basic needs of their inhabitants that are realistic in economic terms and supported by the majority of the population.
In 2011, IPEMED is therefore launching a wide debate on reforming current health policies. It involves experts from North and South of the region with the aim of defining funding priorities and the diseases to be treated. The first stage consists in the production of an overview of health public systems in the Maghreb countries with the publication of a report including several concrete and... 
Health systems in southern Mediterranean countries are undergoing an endemic crisis. All health sector workers, users and investors agree that current health policies are incapable of satisfying the needs of the populations concerned. Southern Mediterranean countries therefore face major common challenges over the next 20 years: to develop health policies adapted to the basic needs of their inhabitants that are realistic in economic terms and supported by the majority of the population.
In 2011, IPEMED is therefore launching a wide debate on reforming current health policies. It involves experts from North and South of the region with the aim of defining funding priorities and the diseases to be treated. The first stage consists in the production of an overview of health public systems in the Maghreb countries with the publication of a report including several concrete and realistic recommendations on health programmes focused on inhabitants’ needs in 2020-2030.
Several stakes will be examined:
- The main limits of current health systems in terms of capacities of financing, human resources and equipment and efficiency and transparency of the pharmaceutical market,
- How to face the priority question of NCD (Non Communicable Diseases / not contagious diseases) as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases or cancer
- How to organize a Euro-Mediterranean market of health and medicines
- The priority objectives in health
- Needs and possible reforms allowing answering these priority objectives
It is not a question of replacing public authorities in the definition of a new health policy for every country but to elaborate a report allowing every country, which would like to implement some reforms, to find valuable elements of reflection to accompany its efforts.
This high-level workgroup, coordinated by Pr Farid Chaoui and Pr Michel Legros, is composed of the following experts:
- Mohamed Adbelmoumene, former Vice-president of the WHO, former Minister of Health and former Minister of social services and employment in Algeria.
- Noureddine Achour, professor of preventive and social medicine at the Faculty of medicine of Tunis and General Director of the Observatory of new and emergent diseases.
- Noureddine Fikri Benbrahim, professor of social medicine, public health and hygiene at the Faculty of Rabat and Vice-president of the University Mohammed V Souissi in Rabat
- Jea -Paul Grangaud, professor of pediatrics and former director of the prevention department at the Algerian Ministry of Health
- Habib Rejeb, WHO/ EMRO consultant in training in community health and training of trainers
Develop health systems in the Mediterranean via different axes (under study) and take into account the needs of populations
Develop health systems in the Mediterranean via different axes (under study) and take into account the needs of populations
May/June 2011 : Set up an expert group of three or four experts on health systems in the Maghreb charged with directing the study and validating its conclusions
June 2011 : first expert group work session
July/ August 2011 : writing of the national reports analyzing the state of arts of public health systems in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
October 2011 : second meeting of the expert group.
October/November 2011 : Launching of a call for papers (2-3 pages’ note) for specials health experts (health economist, health manager, health lawyer, etc.)
November 2011 : Mid-term report
December 2011 : presentation of the mid-term report to IPEMED’s Scientific council
January 2012 : deadline for the final report (including the elements of specialised health experts from the call for papers as well as recommendations from IPEMED’s Scientific council) and summary (note IPEMED)
February 2012 : organization of a seminar in order to complete and deepen the report
March/April 2012 : publication of the final report and the summary (note IPEMED)
May/June 2011 : Set up an expert group of three or four experts on health systems in the Maghreb charged with directing the study and validating its conclusions
June 2011 : first expert group work session
July/ August 2011 : writing of the national reports analyzing the state of arts of public health systems in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
October 2011 : second meeting of the expert group.
October/November 2011 : Launching of a call for papers (2-3 pages’ note) for specials health experts (health economist, health manager, health lawyer, etc.)
November 2011 : Mid-term report
December 2011 : presentation of the mid-term report to IPEMED’s Scientific council
January 2012 : deadline for the final report (including the elements of specialised health experts from the call for papers as well as recommendations from IPEMED’s Scientific council) and summary (note IPEMED)
February 2012 : organization of a seminar in order to complete and deepen the report
March/April 2012 : publication of the final report and the summary (note IPEMED)
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