WHO-FIC Council Update from WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) Mark Landry

1. WHO-FIC Council Update from WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) Mark Landry Coordinator, Health Intelligence and Innovation, WPRO landrym@wpro.who.int

3. Regional Activities Update Universal Health Coverage (UHC) • Operationalizing global UHC monitoring framework in regional and national settings • Indicators and dashboards • Health Information and Intelligence Platform (HIIP) for the Western Pacific • Increases access to multiple sources of health information and statistics for/from countries • Enhances data analysis and use with visualizations and dashboards to improve policy, planning, and communications • Burden of disease analyses (e.g., Cambodia, Philippines, Fiji) for health sector planning • Measuring and Achieving UHC with ICT conference 2-5 December 2014, Manila, Philippines

4. Regional Activities Update NCD Monitoring and Surveillance • Implementing global framework with Regional Action Plan 2014-2020 • Target #1 addresses premature mortality from NCDs with 2 indicators

5. Regional Activities Update Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS) • Asia/Pacific Regional Partnership for Improving CRVS (Website) • Health, Statistics, Civil Registrar • UN ESCAP, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNHCR, Plan International, ADB, SPC • Programme components • Legal framework and institutional capacity • Political commitment and public awareness • Completeness of registration of vital events • Quality of civil registration and vital statistics • Use and dissemination of vital statistics • Coordination and collaboration • CRVS Investment Plans (Philippines + 5-7 additional in next 12-18 months) 24-28 November 2014 Bangkok, Thailand

6. Regional Activities Update Pacific CRVS Support: Brisbane Accord Group (BAG) • 18 PICTs implementing Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan • Country assessments and action plans guided by multi-sectoral CRVS committees with accountability • Focus on birth/death registration and cause of death, data analysis/reporting (April 2014 course) • Analytical capacity-building: CRVS training, medical certification training, ICD-10 mortality and morbidity coding, curriculum changes (FNU)

7. Classifications Regional Priorities • Multiple ICD/ICF implementation strategies in different country contexts • Pacific island countries: e.g., “coding as a service” model • Low/middle income countries: Tertiary hospitals (full), primary healthcare level (simplified) • Building institutional and individual capacity • Training of Trainers in ICD coding • Physician training in death certification • Morbidity and mortality statistics analysis and report writing • Verbal autopsy (VA) • Hospital management (case-mix, DRGs) and health insurance schemes • Adapting techniques and learning from developed country experience • ICF as an enabler for disabilities and rehabilitation initiative • Implementation of WHO-FIC tools and informatics solutions

8. Call to Action • Develop multiple pathways and approaches for low and middle income countries to adopt and implement ICD, ICF, (ICHI) from tertiary hospital down to primary healthcare (PHC) level • WHO-FIC Asia-Pacific Network ICD-10 Simplified Version • ICD tabulations linked to routine HIS reporting (DHIS2) • Improve centralized access point to WHO-FIC Network resources and tools, including ICD-10 2014 updates • Develop the business case (costs/benefits) for ICD-10 implementation and future ICD-11 adoption in low/middle income countries