INVITATION
Corvinus Health Policy and Health Economics Conference Series 2015/4 Department of Health Economics, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest
Health Research Group, Central European University
Hungarian Health Economics Association
Health and Health Care Economics Section of the Hungarian Economic Association
Health Economics Study Circle, Corvinus University of Budapest
INFORMAL PAYMENTS IN MATERNITY CARE
September 29, 2015 18:00-20:00
Corvinus University of Budapest
Budapest, Közraktár utca 4-6. Room C VII.
Conference chairperson:
Dr. Valentin Brodszky, Department of Health Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest
Speakers:
Dr. Tetiana Stepurko, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev
Dr. Nicholas Rubashkin, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California.
Dr. Saraswathi Vedam, The University of British Columbia, Canada Petra Baji, Ph.D., Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Prof. Péter Mihályi, University of Pannonia, Central European University
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Program
Conference chairperson:
Dr. Valentin Brodszky, Department of Health Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest
18.00 Opening
Prof. Erzsébet Kovács, Dean, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest
Dr. András Inotai, chair, Hungarian Health Economics Association
18.15 The role of informal payments in maternity care
Dr. Tetiana Stepurko, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev
18.30 Mothered centered maternity care – Delivery models Quality indicators, the Canadian survey
Dr. Saraswathi Vedam, The University of British Columbia, Canada 18.45 Mothered centered maternity care survey in Hungary
Dr. Nicholas Rubashkin, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California.
19:00 Mothered centered maternity care survey – Some results on informal payments Petra Baji, Ph.D., Corvinus University of Budapest
19:15 Discussion
Prof. Péter Mihályi, University of Pannonia, Central European University 19:45 Take home message & Closing
Scientific program committee:
Petra Baji, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Health Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest
Valentin Brodszky, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Health Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest
Andrew Cartwright, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Public Policy, Central European University (CEU), Budapest
Prof. László Gulácsi, head, Department of Health Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest
András Inotai, Ph.D., chair, Hungarian Health Economics Association
Márta Péntek, M.D., Ph.D., habil. associate professor, Department of Health Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest
3 Tetiana Stepurko, Ph.D. National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiev, Ukraine, is head of Health care management Master Program, assistant professor at School of Public Health NaUKMA and a member of organizational committee of Summer School ‘Healthcare system transformation: Eastern Europe’. Her PhD research at Maastricht University was focused on informal patient payments for health care services in Central and Eastern European Countries.
Saraswathi Vedam, RM, FACNM, MSN, Sci D (h.c) is Associate Professor at UBC Midwifery in the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. She has been in active clinical practice for 30 years.
She serves as Senior Advisor to the MANA Division of Research, Executive Board Member, Canadian Association of Midwifery Educators, and Founding Chair of the historic Home Birth Consensus Summits. Her
scholarly work includes a development of scales to measure attitudes to planned home birth among maternity care providers, and a community based participatory study on women’s preferences for model of care and decision-making during pregnancy which resulted in the development of two new scales to measure Women’s Autonomy in Decision Making and Respectful Maternity Care. In 2010, she chaired the 5th International Normal Labour and Birth Research conference in Vancouver.
Nicholas Rubashkin, M.D., M.A. obtained his MD and MA (Anthropology) from Stanford University and is an obstetrician of Hungarian descent. In 2014 he was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences at Semmelweis University in Budapest, where he and his team surveyed Hungarian women regarding their preferences and satisfaction with birth care. The survey focuses on many issues particular to maternity care in Central/Eastern Europe, such as informal cash payments. He is a board member of the organisation Human Rights in Childbirth; he currently lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Petra Baji, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Department of Health Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest. Her PhD research at Maastricht University was focused on formal and informal out-of-pocket patient payments for health care services.
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Stepurko T, Pavlova M, Levenets O, Gryga I, Groot W. Informal patient payments in maternity hospitals in Kiev, Ukraine. Int J Health Plann Manage. 2013 Apr-Jun;28(2):e169- 87. doi: 10.1002/hpm.2155. Epub 2012 Dec 13.
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Baji P, Pavlova M, Gulácsi L, Groot W. (2012): Changes in equity in out-of-pocket payments during the period of health care reforms: evidence from Hungary. International Journal for Equity in Health, 11(1):36.
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Petra Baji: Out-of-pocket patient payments for health care services in Hungary:
Past experience and future perspectives.
Tetiana Stepurko: Informal Patient Payments in Central and Eastern European Countries
