HPH leadership workshop in Taiwan examined how to lead health service delivery reform to achieve SDG3

On October 19, a 2017 Health Promoting Hospitals Leadership Workshop on how to lead organizational health service delivery reform by applying HPH module to achieve universal health gains in SDG3 was held in New Taipei City, Taiwan. It received a total of 65 hospital managers and professors from Indonesia & Taiwan, including the chair and the coordinator of the Indonesian HPH Network.

This workshop was requested by Professor Hadi Pratomo of Universitas Indonesia and designed by Dr. Shu-Ti Chiou, the founder of Taiwan HPH Network, with the aims to help leaders better prepare themselves to the arriving SDG3 targets in Agenda 2030, to examine the HPH module on its relations to people-centered health services and SDG3, to acquire the skills on planning and continuous quality improvement in HPH, and to gain experiences and insights from the leaders of the champion healthcare organizations. Workshop activities included presentations, site visit and discussions. The co-organizers were the International Health Program of Yang-Ming University (Taiwan), Department of Health Education & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia (Indonesia), I-lan Turbid River Foundation for Education (Taiwan), and Yonghe Cardinal Tien Hospital (Taiwan). In addition, management teams of the Cardinal Tien Hospital and Taipei City Hospital attended to accompany Indonesian participants for more direct communications.

Several important insights were gained from the workshop. 1) HPH is a useful tool to support delivery of people-centered health services to achieve SDG3. 2) Leadership commitment plus a well-functioning coordinator to apply a planned organizational approach is the key to success. 3) HPH initiative did not need much extra budget, but government budget and management policies did help bring more hospitals on board. 4) Explicit expression of the value of HPH needs to be tailored into local healthcare context to address the most urgent issue there.

Information was provided by: Dr. Shu-Ti Chiou, M.D., Ph.D., Founder and former coordinator of Taiwan Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services; Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Yang-Ming University, Taiwan

臺灣健康促進醫院領袖工作坊檢視如何領導健康照護服務改革以達永續發展目標

2017健康促進醫院領袖工作坊於10月19日在臺灣新北市舉行，主題為何應用健康促進醫院模式領導機構健康照護服務改革以達成永續發展目標3之全球健康收益。共有65位來自印尼和臺灣的醫院管理者和教授與會，包括印尼健康促進醫院網絡主席及協調人。

該工作坊由印尼大學Hadi Pratomo教授提出，並由臺灣健康促進醫院網絡發起人邱淑媞醫師籌劃，旨在幫助領導者為達成2030議程之永續發展目標3準備就緒、檢視健康促進醫院模式與以人為中心之健康照護及永續發展目標3之關係、學習健康促進醫院計畫及持續品質改善之技能及獲得典範健康照護機構領導者之經驗與見解。工作坊內容包括演講、實地訪視及討論。協辦單位為陽明大學國際衛生學程(臺灣)、印尼大學公共衛生學院健康教育與行為科學系(印尼)、宜蘭濁水溪教育基金會(臺灣)及永和耕莘醫院(臺灣)。此外，耕莘醫院及臺北市立聯合醫院管理團隊出席與印尼與會者更直接地交流。

工作坊取得幾項重要見解：(1)健康促進醫院為支持提供以人為中心之健康照護服務以實現永續發展目標3之有效工具。(2)領導者的承諾加上功能良好的協調人來應用計畫性的組織方法是成功的關鍵。(3)健康促進醫院倡議不需要太多額外的預算，但政府預算及管理政策確實有助於吸引更多醫院成為一員。(4)明確表達健康促進醫院之價值需要依據當地健康照護狀況調整以處理最急迫的議題。

資料來源：邱淑媞醫師，臺灣健康促進醫院及照護機構網絡發起人及前協調人；臺灣陽明大學醫學院兼任副教授