PHM-Exch> Call for papers: 2nd National Conference on bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy. Bangalore-India Oct 2012

[Claudio Schuftan]

  *Call for papers:*

*2**nd** National conference on bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy
(EPHP 2012).***
 “Strengthening Health Systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage in
India”****

*Location*: Bangalore, India.****

*Conference dates*: 5th and 6th of October 2012.****

*Abstract submission dates: Abstract submission opens on April 21, 2012 and
closes on June 15, 2012.*****

*Organisers*: Institute of Public Health, Bangalore, India; Institute of
Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.****

The main *objectives* of the conference (www.ephp.in) are ****
·      Disseminate the concepts of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and
Health Systems (HS) in the Indian context.****
·      Disseminate and review the evidence of research and implementation
experiences of health systems strengthening at the National and State Level.
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·      Provide a platform to bring together policy makers, practitioners
and researchers to reflect on issues related to Health Systems and
Universal Health Coverage. ****

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*Thematic Areas*

The main themes for the conference will focus on the role of Service
Provision & Delivery, Governance, Financing, Human Resources, Technology
and Information systems for strengthening / restructuring health systems at
various levels by different sectors for achieving Universal Health Coverage.
Emphasis would be on role and involvement of communities in each of these
thematic areas.  Keeping this focus, the conference attempts to answer some
of the key questions listed below.****

o    What does strengthening of health systems actually mean? What are the
contributing and limiting factors that affect this process of strengthening
health systems?****

o    How should Health Services be organised and delivered for ensuring
affordable, accessible and acceptable care for all? What role that public
and private sector need to play towards this? ****

o   What should the mix of services be? Who should provide it? How do we
measure it?****

o    How to improve access to vulnerable populations like SC/ST, religious
minorities, poor, those living in remote areas? How do we measure it?****

o    What are the important Governance issues (e.g. administrative,
accountability, regulatory, monitoring, corruption, etc) and how they
affect delivery of health services and health care?****

o   How can health services be financed? What are the problems with the
existing financing mechanisms of health care in India? What are some of the
proven effective and equitable arrangements to finance health care? How
does one protect households from catastrophic health expenditure leading to
impoverishment? ****

o    What are the possible pre-payment mechanisms to ensure minimum
out-of-pocket expenditure and what are the organisational changes required
for effective demand side financing in India? How do we measure it?****

o   What are the requirements in terms of human resources (quantity and
quality); medicines and consumables; infrastructure; etc? What do
experience and evidence tell us? What are the systems and resources
required for achieving UHC? Is more of the same enough? ****

o   What is the role of the community in organising health services? How
participatory our health systems are? How effective, the various community
involvement approaches/platforms (Community Monitoring /Social
Audits/Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC), Rogi Kalyan Samitis
(RKS) etc) have been?* *

o   How to get available evidence into policy/practice? How to effectively
communicate/present scientific knowledge/evidence so that it permeates
policy processes? How our policy makers access knowledge/evidence? What
constitute effective public health advocacy (media, legal etc.)?****

*What are we looking for?*

   - Research papers that address some of the above questions. We are
   particularly interested in papers that go beyond describing what is
   happening, and that attempt to explain why, how and for whom the change is
   occurring. Preference will be given to abstracts that address the above and
   provide with solutions to these issues.****
   - Presentations by policy makers looking at the evidence and proposing
   pragmatic solutions****

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*The abstracts should fit the above-mentioned thematic areas, and should
not be more than 600 words. Abstracts should be submitted via online
submission system at www.ephp.in Please structure your abstract as per the
guidelines provided below in order to fit the online submission criteria.*

   - Title****
   - Authors & Institutional Affiliation****
   - Corresponding Author-Contact Information (Email as well as phone)****
   - Description of the problem (Max. 100 words)****
   - Methods (Min.100 words & Max. 150 words)****
   - Main findings (Min.150 Max. 200 words)****
   - Discussion including recommendations (Max. 200 words) – What is
   happening, in what context is it happening, how, why and for whom is it
   happening? Some key recommendations based on your findings to reduce the
   magnitude and intensity of the problem. ****
   - Conflict of Interest Statement (If there are no conflicting interests,
   please say so)****
   - Funding Source (Name of funding agency, Grant number if any)****

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*Conference Secretariat *

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For any further clarifications; please write to ephpsupport at iphindia.org ***
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Institute of Public Health,****

250, 2nd C Main,****

Girinagar 1st Phase,****

Bangalore, India****

560085. ****

Tel: +91 80 26421929****

www.iphindia.org****

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