HEALTH EQUITY EUROPE!
The Governmental Advisory Board (GAB) plays a crucial role in providing policy guidance and engagement with stakeholders to promote health equity in Europe. Led by Giuseppe Ruocco, Chief Medical Officer of the Italian Ministry of Health, the GAB aims to offer feedback, guidance, and support for the implementation of initiatives addressing health inequalities. With a focus on collaboration and alignment with European health policies, the GAB works towards integrating Joint Action Health Equity Europe (JAHEE) results into policy agendas. Its composition includes designated members from participating countries, representatives from WHO and DG Sante, and national policymakers involved in decision-making on social determinants of health.
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JOINT ACTION HEALTH EQUITY EUROPE! The Governmental Advisory Board What is expected from the GAB Next steps Giuseppe Ruocco Chief Medical Officer Italian Ministry of Health Co-funded by the Health Program of the European Union - CHAFEA 1
The role of the GAB Provide policy guidance on the progress and results of the Joint Action Engage stakeholders and policy makers
Specific objectives of GAB/1 Provide feedback and policy guidance on the progress and results of the Joint Action by contributing to WP4 key deliverables and milestones as: 1. the integration and sustainability plan, including country specific recommendations on how to integrate JAHEE results in the policy agenda and how to advance in governance; 2. the final JAHEE consensus policy document, which includes key recommendations issued through the Joint Action on what works and what does not in tackling health inequalities, with a clear focus on governance and on the political, institutional and practical success factors and barriers that influence the building of policies aimed at health equity;
Specific objectives of GAB/2 To engage stakeholders and policy makers (especially in the MSs which are participating to the JA with institutions not belonging to the MoH) to facilitate a dialogue to support the implementation and encourage the scaling up of the practices, aimed at tackling health inequalities at European, national, regional and local level; to generate synergies, collaboration and mutual learning amongst MS experiences and promising practices; to support the alignment of the activities and results of the JA-JAHEE with European health policies.
GAB composition Governmental advisory board will be composed by: one designated member per each JAHEE participating country; coordinators and staff of the WP4 of JAHEE; WP leaders of JAHEE representative from the DG Sante; representatives from the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) National representatives (one for each Country plus optional alternate) should: come from the ministry of health (or from health authorities operating at regional level, if needed) or from other ministries which decision can affect the distribution of the social determinants of health be policy makers or high officers with decision making responsibilities on the planning, development or implementation of policies (or in condition to effectively communicate with them)
State of the art of GAB the JAHEE proposal says a governmental officer board will be set up by month 3 Each JAHEE partner has been requested (formal letter by the WP1 coordinator, with ToR enclosed) to probe the MoH for the designation of an appropriate representative of the country in the GAB at the moment we have suggestions for designation only from 12 countries: Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain (mostly ministerial directors or senior officers or ministerial advisor) We still miss 12 countries: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom (Wales)
Expected consultations of GAB during JAHEE 3 consultations (M12, M24, M33 according to the proposal) Possible harmonization and economy of scale in engaging ministerial officers in several GAB in different Joint Actions: meeting of WP4s with the DG Sante in Luxembourg 7 November Provisional roadmap of the three consultations (time and objectives) First consultation mid November 2019 (teleconference) for validating the Terms of Reference of the GAB and the future agenda Second consultation in December 2019 (teleconference) for discussing and validating a plan of dissemination and engagement of the main products and messages of JAHEE Third consultation in April or June 2020 (face to face before or during the final conference) for discussing and validating the final recommendations and messages of JAHEE
Expected impact from GAB WP4 and WP5 to 9 expect from the GAB representatives to have three different levels of impact: at national, multilateral and European level. For instance in the case of the Italy the representative in the GAB (the Chief Medical Officer) is playing the following roles: At national level (depending on the state of the art of the health equity agenda) harmonization of the main policy messages coming from the Italian partners (National institutes and regions engaged in the six operational WPs 4, and 5 to 9) and integration in the policy agenda of the MoH (the Ministry himself and the general deputies of the MoF) and of other ministries eventually involved At sub European level supporting the potential for multilateral cooperation between countries and partners At European level supporting the inclusion on the JAHEE results into the European agenda (Health program, European Semester, European Social Pillar, Structural Funds, Research program )