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ಆದಿವಾಸಿ ಸಮುದಾಯದ 25ನೇ ವರ್ಷದ ಬೆಳ್ಳಿ ಮಹೋತ್ಸವ

ಆದಿವಾಸಿ ಸಮುದಾಯದ 25ನೇ ವರ್ಷದ ಬೆಳ್ಳಿ ಮಹೋತ್ಸವ

ಸೋಲಿಗ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಸಂಘದ ಬೆಳ್ಳಿ ಹಬ್ಬ ದಿನಾಂಕ 28/02/2020 ಚಾಮರಾಜನಗರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಹನೂರು ತಾಲೂಕು ಪೊನ್ನಾಚಿ ಗ್ರಾಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೋಲಿಗ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಸಂಘದ 25ನೇ ವರ್ಷದ ಬೆಳ್ಳಿ ಮಹೋತ್ಸವವನ್ನು ಶಾಸಕರಾದ ಆರ್ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಉದ್ಘಾಟಿಸಿದರು. ಉದ್ಘಾಟನಾ ಭಾಷಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಮಹತ್ವ ನೀಡಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ತಿಳಿಸಿದರು. ಈ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ವರಿಷ್ಠಾಧಿಕಾರಿ ಆನಂದ್ ಕುಮಾರ್ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ ಮದ್ಯಪಾನ ಮತ್ತು ಗಾಂಜಾ ಸೇವನೆಯಿಂದ ಬಲಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದು ಆದಿವಾಸಿಗಳು 60 ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಕಾಲ ಬದುಕುವುದು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಇಂಥ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಿಂದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಪೋಡುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮದ್ಯ ಮಾರಾಟ ಮತ್ತು ಗಾಂಜಾ ಸೇವನೆ ತಡೆಗಟ್ಟುವ ನಿಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕಟ್ಟುನಿಟ್ಟಿನ ಕ್ರಮ ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳುವಂತೆ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಸೂಚನೆ ನೀಡಲಾಗುವುದು ಎಂದು ತಿಳಿಸಿದರು. ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಟ್ ಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ವತಿಯಿಂದ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಶಿಬಿರಗಳನ್ನು ಏರ್ಪಡಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಈ ಶಿಬಿರದಲ್ಲಿ 250ಕ್ಕೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಸಮುದಾಯ ಬಾಂಧವರು ತಮ್ಮ ದೇಹದ ತೂಕದ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ, ಎತ್ತರ ಹಾಗೂ ಹಿಮಗ್ಲೋಬಿನ್, ಸಕ್ಕರೆ ಕಾಯಿಲೆ ಇದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಉಚಿತ ತಪಾಸಣೆ ಮಾಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಈ ಶಿಬಿರದಲ್ಲಿ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಪ್ರಶಾಂತ್ ಸಹನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರು ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಟ್ ಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು. ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಯೋಗೇಶ್ ಹಾಗೂ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ ವರ್ಗದವರು ಸಹಕರಿಸಿದರು. ಹಾಗೆ ಸಂಜೆ ನಡೆದ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಟ್ ಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ ವರ್ಗದವರಿಂದ ಕುಡಿತದಿಂದ ಆಗುವ ದುಷ್ಪರಿಣಾಮಗಳು ಇದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕಿರು ನಾಟಕ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ ಮಾಡಿ ಸಮುದಾಯದವರಿಗೆ ಅರಿವು ಮೂಡಿಸಲಾಯಿತು.

ಎರಡನೇ ದಿನದ ವಿಚಾರ ಸಂಕಿರಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಆದಿವಾಸಿಗಳ ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಆರೋಗ್ಯದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಹದೇವಯ್ಯ ಸಮುದಾಯ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಕಾರ್ಯಕರ್ತರು ಪ್ರಬಂಧ ಮಂಡನೆ ಮಾಡಿದರು. ಈ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ ಮಂಡನೆಗೆ ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಟ್ ಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್ ಹೆಲ್ತ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಇದರ ಸಹ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರಾದ ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ಪ್ರಶಾಂತ್ ಸಹಕರಿಸಿದರು.

This event was part of public engagement activities planned under Towards Health Equity & Transformative Action on Tribal Health (THETA) project under the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Fellowship to Dr. Prashanth N S

Film Screening: Health in All and the Tribal Population in South India

Film Screening: Health in All and the Tribal Population in South India

The IPH Knowledge Management Committee invites you to attend the screening of “Health in All and the Tribal Population in South India.” directed by professional filmmaker Lode Desmet. The film was made along with public health researchers at IPH, Bangalore and ITM, Antwerp and was officially released at the Bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy (EPHP) conference in Bangalore in July 2016.

Collaborative research with tribal populations in South India confirmed and unraveled social exclusion as a major obstacle to health and well-being. The documentary makes a case for a ‘Health in All’ approach, starting from the realities and needs, voiced by members of tribal communities.

The screening will be followed by a discussion. You are invited to join the film screening in person or over Zoom, using the link below: https://zoom.us/j/701662546

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Affiliation

ITM, Antwerp & IPH, Bengaluru

Date

 9 – January – 2020

Time

3:30 pm – 4.30 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

3009, II-A Main, 17th Cross, KR Rd, Siddanna Layout,
Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070

Gender Inequities

Gender Inequities

The Health Equity Network India (HENI) secretariat at IPH Bengaluru is pleased to announce the thirteenth webinar in the Equilogues series in May 2019.

Theme: Gender Inequities in Publicly Funded Health Insurance Schemes

Summary of the talk: In this webinar, the speaker unravels gender inequities in social protection mechanisms for health and challenges the gender neutrality stance of publicly funded health insurance schemes (PFHIS).  She discusses the several gender-based barriers in the pathway to access healthcare under the PFHIS drawing from her recently completed a doctoral study on Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme. Concepts such as ‘household’, ‘access’ and ‘coping’ are revisited using a gender lens. 

About the speaker: Rajalakshmi RamPrakash is a researcher and a social activist on gender and health-based out of Chennai. She has a Masters in Social Work and a Doctorate in Social Sciences from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She has been involved in several research studies on themes intersecting gender with sexual and reproductive health, law, ethics, health insurance and health systems. She is a member of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Gender & Evaluation Community and is currently with Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai. 

Speaker

Rajalakshmi RamPrakash

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Affiliation

Date

7-May-2019

Time

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

health research priority-setting

health research priority-setting

Theme:

Engaging communities in health research priority-setting is a key means of setting research topics and questions of relevance and benefit to them. But communities, especially those considered disadvantaged and marginalised, rarely have a say in the agendas and priorities of the very health research projects that aim to help them.

How can researchers and communities share power and ownership when setting priorities for health research projects? An “ethical toolkit” is being developed to help researchers and their partners design inclusive priority-setting processes for health research projects. The toolkit places community engagement and power-sharing at the heart of health research priority-setting. It is a reflective project planning aid for use before priority-setting is undertaken for a health research project. It consists of 3 worksheets and a companion document.

In today’s workshop, the ethical toolkit will be introduced to workshop participants and they will be able to give comments and feedback. Then workshop participants will have the opportunity to apply the toolkit to their current/upcoming health research projects in small groups. (The toolkit is currently not publicly available but will be provided to participants at
the workshop.)

About the speaker

Dr Bridget Pratt is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Equity at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Her work focuses on the ethics of global health research and health systems research, with a focus on social and global justice. She develops ethical guidance
for global health research in relation to multiple areas: priority-setting, governance, capacity development, community engagement, provision of ancillary care, research translation, benefit-sharing, and data sharing.

The event is organised by the health equity cluster at IPH Bengluru and is supported by the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance fellowship to Dr. Prashanth N S

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Speaker

Dr Bridget Pratt

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Affiliation

School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

Date

19-April-2019

Time

10:00 am – 3.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

3009, II-A Main, 17th Cross, KR Rd, Siddanna Layout,
Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070

Experience of Health Inequities

Experience of Health Inequities

Dr. Nityasri S N will be presenting  a seminar on the topic ‘Experience of health inequities among forest- dwelling tribal communities in Karnataka’.
The tribal communities in India are categorised as Scheduled Tribes. Forest-dwelling tribal communities in most parts of India prefer to be known as Adivasis. There have been descriptive studies about the nature and extent of health inequities among Adivasi communities, but there is a lack of understanding of the pathways and processes which lead to the inequities. Dr. Nityasri proposes tto study (as part of her PhD), the experiences of inequities among Adivasis. Using case studies, she proposes to develop a framework mapping the pathways of inequities among Adivasis in Karnataka. 

Speaker

Dr Nityasri

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Affiliation

IPH Staff

Date

30-January-2019

Time

11:00 AM – 12.00 PM

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

3009, II-A Main, 17th Cross, KR Rd, Siddanna Layout,
Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070