Thu 14th November @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm GMT
The rising cancer burden demands innovative solutions that leverage, develop, and enhance synergies across various systems. The future of cancer control and health system strengthening is interconnected, personalized, adaptable to new knowledge, and essential to achieving universal health coverage.
The panel will cover the following key topics:
– The Cancer And Health Systems Approach: Highlight how addressing cancer-specific challenges can simultaneously strengthen health systems.
– Cancer Burden: Focusing on redefining our understanding of its complexity and how this should shape desired outcomes. We will introduce a global collaborative study capturing people’s perspectives of the cancer burden using an interactive online dashboard.
– A Value Approach to Investing in Cancer: Analyse the global and multi-dimensional costs and benefits of reducing the cancer burden with data from a pilot study in Mexico and Peru for select cancers covering out-of-pocket expenses and the value of alleviating suffering.
Learning objectives
This panel will invite attendees to:
– Think critically about the cancer burden and how it is measured as a starting point to better understand the challenges and benefits of designing more effective person-centered strategies.
– Reflect on the benefits of expanding cancer control and the impact on health systems, accelerating progress toward universal health coverage.
– Share elements of a strengthened case for investment in cancer control, by incorporating the experiences of individuals with cancer into the cost-benefit analysis.