Chapter VI: Evaluation

The responsibility of the monitoring and evaluation resided with the Executive of the Society as well, as the Toronto conference-organizing secretariat.

There was a general evaluation form of the conference where participants were able to comment about the quality of the speakers, logistics of the meeting, relevance of the topics, quality of the translation and overall quality of the meeting.

	Excellent	Satisfactory	Poor	No comment
Conference Registration	80%	20%	0	0
Opening Session	71%	29%	0	0
Luncheon	87%	13%	0	0
Vignettes	80%	20%	0	0
Social events (boat dinner)	50%	10%	0	40%
Interpretation/translation	68%	10%	0	22%
Did the Conference achieve its objectives?	99%	1%	0	0

ALLOCATION OF SUBSIDIES

In order to facilitate the participation at the Conference for interested individuals from developing countries, and following the specific intent of a part of the grant allocations received; a special fund was allocated to provide partial financial support.

A total of 61 participants received partial subsidies to participate in the meeting. The subsidies covered essential expenses such as airfare, conference registration, some accommodation and participation in special evening conference events. In order to allocate such funds, the ISEqH developed and considered the following four different categories, here ranked in order of priority.

Professionals from developing countries who submitted abstracts that were accepted for scientific sessions;
Professionals from developing countries who presented abstracts for poster sessions;
Professionals who were known to be active in working on equity issues in their developing countries; and
Professionals from developing countries who submitted a written statement explaining their interest in and commitment to work on equity in health.

In addition, money was allocated to 21 postgraduate and graduate students who had expressed an interest in the field, and offered to help in the organization of the Conference.

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS

President
TALBOT, Yves (Canada)
Secretary
KRIMGOLD, Barbara (USA)
Treasurer
GILSON, Lucy (South Africa)
Executive Secretary
RIUTORT, Monica (Canada)
Past President
STARFIELD, Barbara (USA)
Board Members
BUSTRÖM, Bo (Sweden)
HOWDEN-CHAPMAN, Philippa (New Zealand)
KIM, Chang-Yup (South Korea)
MACKENBACH, Johan P. (The Netherlands)
NAYAR, P. K. B. (India)
ZAMORA, Carlos (Costa Rica)

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Chapter VI: Evaluation

ALLOCATION OF SUBSIDIES

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS

Toronto Declaration (in PDF Format)

Toronto Declaration
(in PDF Format)