Building Collaborative Advantage Through Smart Capacitating Investment
When Invest4Health started on January 2-23, the consortium was driven by a shared vision: to incentivise a shift from hospital-centric care to smart capacitating investment in health promotion and disease prevention at scale across multiple levels with sustainable returns and localised benefits. The first 18 months saw an immense effort to get people and processes […]
Development of SCI-compatible financing methods – Milestones of Work Package 4
The current status of preventive public health and wellbeing interventions in Europe involves a combination of funding from public and private sources. On average, public spending on preventive care accounts for 2.8% of total health expenditure across EU countries, ranging from 0.8% to 4.4%. While there is significant variation between countries, preventive interventions are typically […]
Using Smart Capacitating Investment in low-resource settings – Invest4Health at a WHO event in Geneva
Last week WHO hosted a well-structured and intense workshop in Geneva, Switzerland on making hospitals fit for purpose. The overarching vision is for hospitals to contribute to primary healthcare-oriented health systems. As such, the event is part of a process of re-imagining care. Three main themes were addressed by over 50 participants who shared experience […]
Invest4Health Workshop at the International Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Conference – 20-22 September 2023, Vienna
We are delighted to announce that Invest4Health Consortium members will host a workshop at the International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Conference, 20-22 Sep 2023, in Vienna. Many governments’ fiscal space and budgetary resources are shrinking, all while demand for public services, including healthcare, is rising sharply. Hospital-focused healthcare models and ‘traditional’ […]