Health Policy Innovations
The introduction of health goals and targets has not just been an internal managerial effort but also a response of the health sector to the major restructuring of late modern societies which brings with it new complexities, new risks and new benefits in all spheres of life. …From the start health goals and targets were a modernization strategy which allowed for a new positioning as well as an expansion of territoriality for the health sector.
Kickbusch, Ilona Perspectives on health governance in the 21st century in Marinker, Health targets in Europe 2002
Ilona Kickbusch has contributed to health policy innovations throughout her career. She was a member of the core group that developed the first European Health Policy based on health targets at the WHO Regional Office for Europe which was adopted by the member states in 1984. She was responsible for the section on “lifestyles and health” and has since then advised many countries and organizations on target setting for health particular in relation to health promotion and intersectoral health challenges.
Adelaide Thinker in Residence
Ilona Kickbusch was invited by the premier of South Australia to contribute to health policy innovation in South Australia. During her time in Adelaide she was able to demonstrate the central role that health plays in the economies and social life of twenty-first century societies and highlight the implications of this for the development of South Australia. In particular she developed recommendations on Health in All Policies – which will be announced towards the end of 2008. More details on this exciting programme and residency can be found on the Thinkers website > www.thinkers.sa.gov.au
Health Policy Innovations
Ilona Kickbusch served as the chair of the Academic Advisory Board AAB
on Health Policy Innovation of the Merck Company Foundation from 2006-2008.
In a recent publication on Innovation
in Health Policy: Responding to the Health Society, (*.pdf) Ilona Kickbusch outlines the challenges on which the Board focused
its work. The outcome is presented in a book “Policy Innovations for Health” which was published by Springer in October 2008.
Ilona Kickbusch is a member of the international advisory group for the European research project “The role of knowledge in the construction and regulation of health and education policy in Europe” KNOWandPOL
European Health Policy Forum Gastein 2006
She chaired a forum on health policy innovations which discussed four key dimensions of health policy: values, ethics, trust and good governance. The powerpoints of the introduction can be accessed here.
Millennium Development Goals: At the global level Ilona Kickbusch has served as the senior advisor on the Millennium Development Goals and Health Targets to the Pan American Health Organization. In this context she developed a determinants based approach to the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals (*.ppt) and advised on a special MDG issue of PERSPECTIVES IN HEALTH.
Health Values
Ilona Kickbusch served as a member of the MSD academic advisory board on health targets for several years. A special focus of the work of this board has been a new focus on the role of values in health policy which was reflected in two important events:
2003: The Madrid Conference on values in health policy which led to the Madrid Framework (*.pdf)
Another output is the publication “Constructive
Conversations about Health” edited by Marshall Marinker. Radcliffe
2006. “Written by leading health policy makers and academics from many
countries, Constructive Conversations about Health examines in depth the underlying
values and principles of health policy, and posits a more enlightened public
and political discourse.” The
chapter by Ilona Kickbusch on health and well being can be accessed here (*.pdf).