The 2nd HPD report - Health Policy Monitor

Call for Support
International Network for Health Policy & Reform
Dear friends and colleagues,
With this letter, we cordially invite you to actively support our network. Your contribution
of connections, expertise or funding can help us consolidate and broaden our
initiative and sustain the continuity of this project through the years to come.
Why do we invite you to join us? What’s in it for you?
The Bertelsmann Foundation initiated this network of health policy experts to
bridge the gap between research and policy. Our reports highlight information—
mostly from the world of health economics or medicine—that deserves a broader
audience, a wider context. We focus on the politics of policy: the dynamics, interactions
and driving forces that bring about health policy reform. If we know the
solutions (e.g., evidence-based practice), where do obstacles arise? What makes it so
difficult to put sound proposals into effect? The answer to these questions underpins
our work: Health policy reform is about interests, values, opportunistic considerations—not
just about efficiency, equity, factual evidence or rational decisionmaking.
So how does health policy work, and why? What can we learn from other countries?
Are health reform policies transferable? If so, under what conditions? What
constitutes “good” health policy reform? How do various countries cope with demographic
transition and technology on the one hand and issues of equity, access and
distribution on the other?
Do these questions appeal to you? Join us! You can help us find answers that promote
sustainable health policy reform.
Are you interested in going beyond what you read in the newspapers or see on
television? Join us! You can help us deepen and broaden our network, making it
more representative of the health policy reform processes taking place in industrialized
countries around the world.
What you can do
You can provide the Health Policy Network with virtual, practical and financial
support through one or more of the following activities:
– Become an ambassador
– Become a country patron
– Become a host
– Become a health policy facilitator
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