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Cooperative Organisation

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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

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

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

Great initiative from the Malta Co-operatives Federation to promote cooperatives among health sciences students We will be there to inspire students with ideas for setting up cooperative businesses in healthcare through specific, real-life examples #healthcoops #coops pic.twitter.com/ncfaWphiVG

11:18 am · January 27, 2023

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

«Co-operatives can be a powerful instrument for strengthening public health systems, providing efficiency, saving public resources and contributing to the redistribution of wealth» #healthcoops #coops twitter.com/coopnews/statu…

12:05 pm · January 11, 2023

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

Interesante reflexión desde Chile, donde la cooperativa @SermecoopChile ha permitido descongestionar la tensión de recursos de salud del sector público #healthcoops #wearecoops #coops lemondediplomatique.cl/cooper… pic.twitter.com/PYd83q8m2c

8:27 am · November 17, 2022

IHCO

@IHCO_coophealth

We are saddened by the passing away of Ela Bhatt, founder of @SEWABharat. Our condolences to the family and the whole @SEWAFed community twitter.com/SEWABharat/sta…

8:32 am · November 3, 2022

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IHCO President Carlos Zarco talked to Co-op News about how the last year has been for health cooperatives and what… Read More »IHCO President featured in the End of Year Review of Co-op News

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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.

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… Read More »New report highlights the role of cooperatives in the health sector in building a better world

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