Tobacco cessation counselling in NIMHANS, field visits to the primary health care center and the qualitative data analysis of the interest of people’s representatives in the Lok Sabha on tobacco and tobacco related products in India
Dr.Krishna Subedi
Framework for Evaluation of Health System Preparedness for Rabies Prevention. He will also present a few comments from his review of Nepal’s New Health System towards UHC and Health Equity, challenges and opportunities.
Nikhil Gokani
Sanam Monterio
Narrative inquiry as a qualitative research method, mainly focusing on the interview schedule development interviewing skills and conduct of the narrative interview.
Social Health Assistance is one of the components of a comprehensive Social Health Protection Policy. More specifically, Prof Bart Criel would be drawing on his experiences with it in Belgium and from thereon identify possible lessons of it for LMIC countries.
Prof. Bart Criel is associated with the Department of Public Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. His main areas of work are the study of health care delivery systems and of systems of social protection in health in low-and middle income countries.
16th-Feb-2018
12:00-1:00 pm
Institute of Public health
#250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross,
Girinagar Ist Phase,
Bengaluru – 560085
It was a happy moment to cherish. The GATS (2015-16) factsheet, shows that in the last 7 years, the prevalence of tobacco use in Karnataka has reduced by 5.4 percentage points. This s a relative reduction of 19.1%. More importantly, there has been a reduction (to a tune of 3.1 percentage points) in the prevalence of both smoking and smokeless tobacco. The average age of initiation into tobacco use has gone up from 17.7 years to 19.8 years. Advertising/promotion of tobacco by tobacco industry has gone down substantially, while there is a significant increase in exposure of people to anti-tobacco messages. This is particularly heartening as not many states revealed encouraging results and Karnataka inspite of being a tobacco industry hub has managed to witness such a massive reduction.
While this is an outcome of several individuals and organizations including the strong political will of the state leaders, IPH’s intensive efforts (since 2009) at facilitating policy implementation and policy change is certainly an important part of this story.
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