Every country struggles with their healthcare system - how best to deliver care and sustainably finance it. Self-care is one way to achieve both. Such an important topic and thank you to Business Fights Poverty for convening this conversation!
My key take away is that so much is happening in this space and that is a wonderful thing. These are perhaps rather dull words, but my key take away is we need to keep collaborating and organizing! (albeit always allowing for lots of innovation)
And a second one, if I may, is that the lens the WHO have promoted, of looking at self care A) through a users perspective but b) also through a strong health system perspective, that is vital if we are to avoid the pitfalls and seize the opportunities.
Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this - wonderful insights, wisdom and suggestions.
I really want to say very interesting talk. In terms of how Covid has affected the self care agenda - I love the quote from Einstein that our founder Ali Parsi is to say the definition of insanity is ‘doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results’. we now have an opportunity after covid 19 to reassess the way we’ve been doing things and do things in a very different way we lost far too much as a society to even contemplate to go back to our old ways.
It’s forced us to start looking at the way we deliver health care in a fundamentally different way what the system saw was that as soon as the pressure on the system grew almost the entire functionality of the system at the beginning came to a hold forcing everybody to rethink the way they’ve been delivering healthcare