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Antimicrobial Stewardship at Karuna Trust’s PHCs – Situational analysis of antibiotic usage and Medicines and Therapeutic Committees

Antimicrobial Stewardship at Karuna Trust’s PHCs – Situational analysis of antibiotic usage and Medicines and Therapeutic Committees

Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) is the new cluster at IPH that is being initiated by Sunitha. As part of this process, the first project is to incorporate AMS at 26 Karuna Trust Primary Health Centers (PHCs) in Karnataka by strengthening the Medicines and Therapeutics Committee (MTCs). An IEC application is being written up to seek ethical approval for the situational analysis phase of this project which aims to conduct a baseline study by documenting the current policies and practices that govern the pharmaceutical supply management of antibiotics at these 26 PHCs. Following the current prescribing indicators, including the prescribing pattern of antibiotics, the subsequent phase is designed to gather data on the Medicines and Therapeutics Indicators (MTI) for their PHC based contextual relevance before they could be incorporated as part of the Health Management Information System during the subsequent intervention phase of the project. This presentation is to seek feedback from peers at IPH so the IEC application is tweaked accordingly before submission on 15th Oct.

Speaker

Sunitha Srinivas

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Affiliation

IPH Staff

Date

11-October-2018

Time

4:00 pm – 5.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru
#250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross,
Girinagar Ist  Phase,
Bengaluru – 560085

RSBY awareness study findings

RSBY awareness study findings

India’s health care is predominantly financed by households through out-of-pocket payments at the point of care. Recognising this, successive governments have introduced various measures including health insurance schemes to protect the poor from high hospitalisation costs. One such scheme introduced in 2008, was the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). Meant for the poorest of the poor, the government subsidised the premiums so that patients from this population are able to get free hospitalisation care at select hospitals in their neighbourhood. Despite a 100% subsidy of premiums and the promise of free health care even in private hospitals, in 2011-2012 the enrolment rate in RSBY was 51.4%. The aim of our study was to identify the reasons for the poor enrolment.

Speaker

Yogish CB

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Affiliation

IPH Staff

Date

20-September-2018

Time

4:00 pm – 5.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru
#250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross,
Girinagar Ist  Phase,
Bengaluru – 560085

Debate: Purchasing primary care from the private sector is neither feasible, nor should be attempted for a country like India

Debate: Purchasing primary care from the private sector is neither feasible, nor should be attempted for a country like India

IPH has organised a debate on the topic ‘Purchasing primary care from the private sector is neither feasible, nor should be attempted for a country like India’. Dr. Prashanth will speak in favour of the topic (Affirmative) whereas Dr. Devadasan will speak against it (Negative). The speakers get 8 minutes each for their constructive speeches, followed by a second round (4 mins each) for rebuttal. A moderator will keep time. Pre- and post-debate audience polls will be held.

Speaker

Prashanth NS and Narayanan Devadasan

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Affiliation

IPH Staff

Date

06-September-2018

Time

4:00 pm – 5.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru
#250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross,
Girinagar Ist  Phase,
Bengaluru – 560085

Developing effective payment platforms for accessing public finance in Zambia: Presentation and Q&A with Dr Kajal

Developing effective payment platforms for accessing public finance in Zambia: Presentation and Q&A with Dr Kajal

Dr. Kajal shares with us findings and lessons learnt from her research in Zambia that looked at developing effective payment platforms for accessing public finance. This was qualitative research with different stakeholders from the Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ) and public sector ministry of health at state and provincial levels. The findings may be relevant to Low and Middle income countries such as India.

Speaker

Dr. Kajal

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Affiliation

IAS Officer

Date

06-September-2018

Time

2.30 pm – 3.30 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru
#250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross,
Girinagar Ist  Phase,
Bengaluru – 560085

Ninth Webinar in the Epilogue Series

Ninth Webinar in the Epilogue Series

Closing the Gap: Health Equity Research Initiative in India of the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology is partnering with the Cluster on Health Equity at the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru to announce the ninth webinar in the Equilogues series.

Theme: Denial of reproductive health rights of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in Chhattisgarh

Speaker: Sulakshana Nandi, State Convener of Public Health Resource Network, Chhattisgarh.

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Affiliation

Public Health Resource Network

Date

30-Aug-2018

Time

11.00 Am – 12.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public health #250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross, Girinagar Ist  Phase, Bengaluru – 560085