Health services and social dialogue

Meetings

Within its Sectoral Activities Programme the ILO has held several meetings for the health sector. As health has to date been largely a public sector, these events were "joint" (i.e. bipartite) meetings involving governments and workers' representatives with some participation of private employers in this sector. The meetings include: Social Dialogue in the Health Services: Institutions, capacity and effectiveness, 2002, and Terms of Employment and Working Conditions in Health Sector Reforms, 1998. In 1999, the ILO organized jointly with the DSE and WHO an international round table on the impact of public sector reform on health personnel. Country case studies, the round table discussions and the list of critical questions to be answered before a reform is implemented have been published (see list of health publications).

The more recent international health services meetings were related to specific activities in the health sector:

• ILO/WHO/IOM Inter-regional Tripartite Meeting on Health Services
  Orientation to social dialogue for countries participating in the Action Programme on International Migration of Health Care Workers: The Supply Side Geneva, 22 March 2006
  

• Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Develop Joint ILO/WHO Guidelines on Health Services and HIV/AIDS
  Geneva, 19-21 April 2005