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IHCO is an international organisation founded in 1996 that brings together health cooperatives. It is the health sectoral organisation of the International Cooperative Alliance.

IHCO activity is addressed to showcase cooperatives as an alternative to private and public healthcare, which combines economic goals with social values.

IHCO promotes a people-focused approach to meet the population’s health needs, encouraging high-quality healthcare services and ethical working conditions for professionals.

Health cooperatives take the best structure to meet the needs of their members.

Worker Cooperatives

Production Cooperatives

User Cooperatives

Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives

Specialised healthcare

Pharmacy

Health literacy

Many more

Health cooperatives are active in different sectors.

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

We join the @icacoop in welcoming this important step for cooperatives as one of the references in the Social Economy #coops #wearecoops #healthcoops twitter.com/icacoop/status…

11:11 am · April 19, 2023

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

Health cooperative Lambeth GP celebrates 10th anniversary #healtcoops thenews.coop/169417/sector/…

8:11 am · April 12, 2023

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

On World Health Day, we remind that 30% of the global population is not able to access essential health services Health cooperatives are an efficient and people-focused structure contributing to achieving Universal Health Coverage #HealthForAll #WHO75 #healthcoops pic.twitter.com/CM4KYmZeAa

6:15 am · April 7, 2023

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

Great initiative of CCU Bulgaria to increase access to healthcare for more people twitter.com/icacoop/status…

10:41 am · March 9, 2023

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

Cooperatives make health systems more sustainable as evidenced by the case studies in this report health.coop/wp-content/upl… #healthcoops #coops pic.twitter.com/HOO1gMxT5r

12:44 pm · February 1, 2023

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The International Health Cooperative Organisation convened its General Assembly on November 30, gathering delegates from 12 countries to deliberate and… Read More »General Assembly

IHCO President featured in the End of Year Review of Co-op News

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Cooperative health insurance in The Philippines

Established in 2015, the Cooperative Health Management Federation is the only cooperative Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) in The Philippines. It offers health insurance policies for 197 cooperative organisations covering 60,000 people.

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