World Health Innovation Summit Newsletter December 2021

World Health Innovation Summit Newsletter December 2021

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KINSHASA PROCESS

GSPA -STUDENT FRAMEWORK

16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM

After 18 months of negotiations Roland Schatz has announced the Kinshasa Process supporting Sustainable & Responsible Development of the Mining Sector.

A call for action for students, to embrace social prescribing, personalised care, and sustainable development goals.

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign Join us 10th December 2021 @1pm GMT.

AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT IN DRC WANTS TO ACHIEVE SDGS It was one day like no other in Nguma village in the bateke plateau, southwest of Kinshasa.

The founder of the "United Nations Global Sustainability Index Institute" Roland Schatz returned on Friday, November 26 to honor his promise made to the students of EP Nguma in March 2021. Indeed, he promised them school supplies and toys for children.

GLOBAL SOCIAL PRESCRIBING ALLIANCE

THE FIRST SDG CITIES CONFERENCE IN SHANGHAI ANNOUNCES SEVEN PILOT PROJECTS Shanghai, China, 4 November 2021 –The first Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Cities Conference co-hosted by UN-Habitat and the Municipality of Shanghai aimed at supporting 1000 cities become economically, socially and environmentally sustainable by 2030, announced seven new pilot projects.

New pilot SDG Citieswere announced. They included Shanghai; La Paz, Bolivia; Vitoria Gasteiz, Basque, Spain; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; Penang Bay, Malaysia; Menzel Ennour in Tunisia; and Kuwait City. They will be joined by ten more by the end of the year and will test an array of SDG Cities digital tools being availed by UN-Habitat and partners in areas of urban data, institutional capacity assessment and development and project preparation and financing.

SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE FOR PATIENTS AND POPULATIONS

Healthcare organisations should provide care that patients and populations need. This statement is so axiomatic that it hardly merits stating. And yet it is clear that much of the provision of healthcare is not as effective or efficient as it could be – at a patient or population level. Nor is it always based on population needs.

Too much of healthcare is focused on hospital care. In many countries secondary and tertiary care centres are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of the healthcare spend. Medical education is still carried out predominantly in hospital settings and too many undergraduate and postgraduate trainees aspire to become hospital specialists rather than primary care generalists.

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World Health Innovation Summit Newsletter December 2021