Dr. Prashanth NS and Arupa Das attended the First PHRN National Convention 2011 in Ranchi, Jharkhand,
from 29th April to 1st May 2011.
IPH was invited to be on a panel to discuss issues on human resources in health.
The PHRN convention was a platform, where public health experts and policy makers from several institutions, representatives of the Government and several doctors, programme managers (DPM and BPM), policy makers (members of planning commission) and also grass-root level community health workers like ANMs, ASHAs, Anganwadi workers and panchayat representatives attended and shared their knowledge and experiences.
Many important topics were discussed during these three days session like importance of community participation and how to involve communities actively, issues of National Rural Health Mission and how to overcome these issues, innovations and strategies for filling human resource gaps, debate on three year rural medical practitioner, challenges in public health education and introduction of public health cadre and also issues like RCH, non- communicable diseases, ASHA, planning process importance of holistic approach in public health, relation between social Movement and health.
PHRN will soon come out with a conference statement/resolution. The experience from IPH’s Swasthya Karnataka initiative were placed during the panel discussion which was also taken into consideration in the preparation of the final statement. The final resolution and statement will soon be made available on their website.
Representatives from Public Health Foundation of India, National Health System Resource Centre as well as state health systems resource centre of Chhattisgarh were present.
PHRN National Convention Background Note
Photos
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