New Report Highlights the Role of Cooperatives in the Health Sector in Building a Better World

The International Health Cooperative Organization (IHCO), in partnership with PromoCoop, has published a report that illustrates the many ways cooperatives in the health sector make a difference in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3, Better Health and Wellbeing, thus contributing to building a better world.

In this 100th International Day of Cooperatives, when the world is still facing one of its biggest challenges related to health, with the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, the report shows that cooperative enterprises are delivering sustainability in the health sector by offering health services to their members and communities, managing hospitals, clinics and other health facilities, providing health insurance, providing care services to vulnerable populations, promoting, informing, and educating for health, and providing pharmaceutical products and services. Cooperatives in the health sector ensure access to quality and affordable health products and services through a values-based and democratic model of enterprise, fulfilling the aspiration of building a better world proclaimed during the 2012 UN International Year of Cooperatives one decade ago.

The report explores the variety of ways that cooperatives deliver sustainability to their members and communities and provides a set of case studies that illustrate a diversity of cooperatives in terms of scope, size, models of ownership, and geographic locations. It also provides insights about the way cooperatives in the health sector have been combating the global pandemic, along with concrete recommendations for the growth and promotion of their business model in the health sector.

The report can be found here:
https://health.coop/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Coops_in_the_health_sector_EN.pdf

About us:

The International Health Cooperative Organization (IHCO) is an international organization founded in 1996 that brings together health cooperatives. It is the health sectoral organization of the International Cooperative Alliance.
Its members are national apex organizations and cooperative businesses active in primary and specialized healthcare, management of hospitals, health insurance, socio-healthcare, health promotion, health literacy and pharmacy distribution.
www.health.coop

PromoCoop is an international partnership of consultants with knowledge and vast experience working with cooperatives and social economy organizations, offering tools and services for their promotion and development.
Founded by Manuel Mariño, Rodrigo Gouveia, and Jorge Cabrera, PromoCoop seeks to promote cooperative and social economy development by helping organizations better achieve their goals.
www.promocoop.coop