Health Inc team stands tall at Singapore
The Health Systems in Asia conference was organised jointly by Social Science & Medicine and the National University of Singapore (NUS) from 13-16 Dec 2013 at NUS, Singapore. The Health Inc team from IPH presented three posters and one oral session at the conference.
You can view these presentations at the links provided below:
- Of old exclusions and new barriers: Changing social exclusion among vulnerable groups in India
- Health insurance for the poor: A glimpse on the issues with low utilization of services under RSBY scheme in Karnataka
- Unpacking the concept of awareness: Lessons learnt from a national health insurance scheme (RSBY) in Karnataka, India
- Enrolment in health financing schemes: the role of social exclusion. Lessons from India’s national health insurance scheme (RSBY)
The four-day event was kickstarted with insightful opening remarks by the president of NUS on the current complexity of health systems and the perception of health care as a human right. The entire event was organised as a sequential series of parallel sessions. The opening session focused on governance of pluralistic health systems and provided many practical examples to establish pros and cons of such a system. Other sessions dealt with themes like versatile health systems in Asia, exploring trends in different Asian countries, the major barriers to achieve objectives, and strategies to deal with such barriers and future perspectives. The conference witnessed various debates & discussions on important topics like impact of health financing, cost containment strategies, health literacy, emerging health challenges in Asia, governance and regulation within health systems and management of drug distribution and availability. The poster sessions were equally informative in communicating interesting work by researchers across Asia. The conference used an innovative approach for capturing more feedback & suggestions on posters by using a smartphone app called “Poster in my pocket”. ( http://www.healthsystemsasia.com/conference-posters.html )
The list of oral presentations and poster presentations in the conference are available at the links provided:
Overall, it was a thrilling experience to participate in such an intellectual gathering of researchers, managers, teachers and authors in public health. For some of us in the team, this was our first experience of attending an international conference and speaking before a global gathering. Our hard work and preparation were rewarded when the Health Inc team (IPH Bangalore and TISS, Mumbai) was awarded the best poster award (three posters from IPH and two form TISS). For more details on the best poster reward please read from the following link.
http://www.publichealth.itg.be/2014/01/06/health-inc-gets-best-poster-award/
For any further details on the conference, please visit www.healthsystemsasia.com
