by iphindia | Jan 10, 2012 | Latest Updates
Dr. Prashant NS, faculty and PhD scholar at Institute of Public Health, facilitated a session on District Health Action Plan (DHAP) and NRHM Program Implementation Plan (PIP) on 9th of January 2012 for the District and Block Program Managers, Tumkur
The session focused on understanding the PIP guidelines with greater attention to chapters that would help the participants in formulating an effective PIP for the year 2012 – 13. The session started with a brief interactive discussion on definition of planning, planning process, planning cycle and its importance. This was followed by a group activity, in which the participants were given a scenario (from their work) and asked to apply the planning cycle and understand the difference between each step involved. This was followed by a debriefing and discussion session. The session ended with an assignment on making a situational analysis at individual block level.
by iphindia | May 10, 2011 | Latest Updates
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
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by iphindia | Jul 4, 2010 | Latest Updates
Publication year: 2009
Publication type: Report
Citation: Sudarshan H, Bhojani U, Madhav G, Prabha N. Community planning and monitoring of health services – Karnataka experience. Karuna Trust, Bangalore 2009. (more…)