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August 5-8 2019 saw health leaders from across the Pacific discuss current and future health challenges, and intended solutions, at the 13th Pacific Health Ministers Meeting (PHMM) in French Polynesia.
This PHMM was hosted in Pape’ete by the Government of French Polynesia, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pacific Community (SPC). This was the first PHMM to be hosted by a Francophone government.
The 13th PHMM’s agenda included: universal health coverage (covering primary care reforms, health information systems and health human resources); climate change and health; Pacific health security; noncommunicable diseases; immunization and vaccine preventable diseases; and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
Meeting documents
The majority of documents are available for download, including presentations.
- To download all documents in English, please click here.
- To download documents in French, please click here. (Note: when documents are available in English only they are included, in English, in the French document set).
- To download all presentations, please click here.
- To view the media release, please click here.
- The PHMM final outcome document is available in English, and in French.
| File code | Document name | Language/ Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIC13/0 | PPHM document list | EN only | |
| PIC13/1 | Timetable | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/2 | Annotated programme | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/IB1 | Information Bulletin 1 - Participant Logistics | EN only | |
| PIC13/IB2 | Information Bulletin 2 - Participant List | EN only | |
| Session 1: UHC Part I | |||
| PIC13/S1/1 | Strengthening Primary Health Care towards Universal Health Coverage | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S1/1 Info | French Polynesia’s primary health care reforms | EN & FR | |
| Session 2: Climate change and health | |||
| PIC13/S2/1 | Climate change and health | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S2/1 Annex | Pacific Islands Action Plan on Climate Change and Health – A roadmap for implementation | EN & FR | |
| Session 3: Health security | |||
| PIC13/S3/1 | Strengthening regional health security: emerging diseases and disaster preparedness and response | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S3/1 Annex 1 | IHR Joint External Evaluation (summary of process) | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S3/1 Annex 2 | IHR Self-Assessment Annual Reporting (summary of process) | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S3/1 Annex 3 | Conclusion and recommendations from the meeting on health emergency risk management in the Pacific, 2018 | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S3/S1 Info 1 | PPHSN updates | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S3 Info 2 | New vector control methods for Aedes mosquitoes: Wolbachia | EN & FR | |
| Session 4: Noncommunicable diseases | |||
| PIC13/S4/1 | Pacific Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) Roadmap and Monitoring Alliance for NCD Action (MANA): Progress Update | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S4/1 Annex | Status of noncommunicable diseases policy and legislation in Pacific Island countries and territories, 2018 | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S4/2 | Taxation impact studies in the Pacific: A focus on tobacco, alcohol, sugar-sweetened beverages, discretionary and other foods | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S4/3 | Pacific Legislative Framework for noncommunicable diseases: Progress Update | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S4/4 | Pacific Ending Childhood Obesity Network: Progress Update | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S4 Info | Cancer control in the Pacific: big challenges facing small island states (Summary for PHMM 2019) | EN & FR | |
| Session 5: Immunization | |||
| PIC13/S5/1 | Strengthening childhood and adolescent immunisation in the Pacific, including creating a harmonized Pacific immunization schedule | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S5/1 Annex | Business case and roadmap for harmonising immunisation schedules in the Pacific | Not yet available | |
| Session 6: WASH | |||
| PIC13/S6/1 | Towards a Pacific Strategy on WASH for Health | EN & FR | |
| Session 7: UHC part II | |||
| PIC13/S7/1 | Update on the implementation of the Healthy Islands Monitoring Framework | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S7/1 Annex | HIMF 2nd progress report | EN only | |
| PIC13/S7/1 Info | Update on e-Health and health information systems in the Pacific. | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S7/2 | Human resources for health | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S7/3 | Mapping of overseas medical referral schemes and visiting specialise medical teams in the Pacific | EN only | |
| PIC13/S7/3 Annex | OMRS report executive summary | EN only | |
| PIC13/S7/4 | Strengthening regulatory systems for medicines in the Pacific: A subregional approach | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/S7/4 Annex | Medicines report executive summary | EN only | |
| Additional papers | |||
| PIC13/Supp1 | PHMM SimEx briefing notes | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/Supp2 | Pacific Heads of Health 2018 and 2019 Meeting Report recommendations (summary doc) | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/Supp3 | Full meeting report of Pacific HoH, 2018 | EN only | |
| PIC13/Supp4 | Full meeting report of Pacific HoH, 2019 | EN only | |
| PIC13/Supp5 | PHMM13 Ministers Event Logistics Note | EN & FR | |
| PIC13/Supp6 | PHMM Social Media Guide for Participants | EN only | |
Background
The Pacific Health Ministers Meeting was first convened in 1995 in response to the rapidly changing social and economic conditions affecting the quality of life and health in Pacific island countries and areas.
A key aspect of the inaugural PHMM was the establishment of the ‘Healthy Islands’ vision, which serves as a unifying theme for health protection and health promotion in the Pacific. Envisioned in 1995, the vision has laid the foundation for all subsequent PHMM, with meetings providing an opportunity to report on the progress of the Healthy Islands Monitoring Framework.
Twelve biennial meetings of PIC Ministers of Health have occurred since 1995, with the last meeting hosted by the Cook Islands in Rarotonga from 28-30 August 2017, where governments reaffirmed their commitment to the Healthy Islands vision and adopted
the 2017 Cook Islands “Mana” outcome.
Meeting archive
Twelfth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
Meeting report
Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 28-30 August 2017
2017
The Twelfth Pacific Health Ministers meeting was held from 28-30 August 2017 in
The meeting provided an opportunity to report on the progress of the Healthy Islands Monitoring Framework developed since the last meeting in 2015 as an important tool for monitoring progress and achievements towards the Healthy Islands vision, as well as to reflect on the contribution of universal health coverage (UHC) to the Healthy Islands journey, share achievements, and agree on the way forward for the realization of the vision.
Health ministers called for greater efforts and increased investments to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change on human health and agreed to include climate change and health as a standing agenda item at future meetings.
Eleventh Pacific Health Ministers Meeting, Yanuca Island
Meeting report
Fiji, 15-17 April 2015
2015
The Eleventh Pacific Health Ministers meeting was held from 15-17 April 2015 in Yunuca, Fiji. The Government of Fiji hosted the meeting with secretariat support provided by WHO and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).
The first Pacific Health Ministers meeting took place in Yunuca, Fiji in March 1995 where health ministers adopted the vision of Healthy Islands as the unifying theme for health promotion and health protection. Twenty years later, Healthy Islands remains the overarching vision.
The meeting reviewed the progress that has been made towards achieving the vision of Healthy Islands over the last 20 years and set future strategic directions in health leadership and development in the Pacific.
2013
The Tenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting was held in Apia, Samoa in 2013. The Samoan Government hosted the meeting with secretariat support provided by WHO and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).
The meeting provided an opportunity to continue to move towards the Healthy Islands vision. Health Ministers discussed progress on commitments made during the 2011 Honiara meeting, specifically in addressing the four top priorities of human resources, health information systems, mental health and the social determinants of health. Health ministers also discussed actions needed to scale up responses to challenges such as the noncommunicable disease (NCD) crisis affecting the Pacific and health workforce development.
Ninth Meeting of Ministers of Health for the Pacific Island Countries
Meeting report
Honiara, Solomon Islands, 28 June - 1 July 2011
2011
The Ninth Pacific Health Ministers meeting was held in Honiara,
The meeting provided an opportunity to improve health in the Pacific through strengthened action and collaboration in priority strategic and technical health areas, as well as follow up on progress towards commitments made during previous meetings.
Several dominant themes emerged in discussions on suggested ways forward, such as the need to build upon and optimize