Welcome to IAPO's Patient-Centred Healthcare Portal. 

One of IAPO's aims is to advocate internationally with a strong patients' voice on relevant aspects of healthcare policy, with the aim of influencing international, regional and national health agendas and policies.

This Portal details IAPO's policy activities and background information on key issues in patient-centred healthcare.

The main areas of the Portal are: 

Declaration on Patient-Centred Healthcare
As part of its work to define patient-centred healthcare, from 2004 IAPO has been working with patients' organizations worldwide to develop a Declaration to facilitate collaboration and promote patients' views.

Policy Issues and Activities
Details key policy issues of concern to patients and patients' organizations worldwide, and how IAPO is addressing them through proactive and reactive policy-making, policy statements, collaborations, organizing events and participating in key conferences.

Policy Statements
Provides quick access to IAPO's policy statements addressing key policy issues of relevance to patients and patients' organizations all over the world.  Our statements are produced following research and wide consultation.

The Patient’s Network magazine
Gives a global perspective on issues relevant to patient-centred healthcare worldwide.  Read current and past issues online here, and subscribe to future issues for free.

Events
Lists all upcoming events relevant to patient-centred healthcare, especially those which may be of interest to patients' organizations.

Links
Assists you in finding any healthcare-related organization or company in the world as easily as possible, this section is particularly useful for patients' organizations worldwide.