<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Call for papers:</b></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(79,129,189);border-bottom-width:1pt;padding-top:0cm;padding-right:0cm;padding-bottom:4pt;padding-left:0cm">
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span><span style="font-size:22.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><b>2</b>^<b>nd</b><b> National
conference on bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy (EPHP 2012).</b></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p>

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<h1 style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center;text-indent:0cm" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB">“Strengthening
Health Systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage in India”<u></u><u></u></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Location</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">: Bangalore, India.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Conference dates</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">: 5^th and 6^th
of October 2012.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract submission dates: Abstract submission opens on April 21,
2012 and closes on June 15, 2012.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Organisers</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">: Institute of Public Health,
Bangalore, India; Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB">The main <b>objectives</b> of the conference (<a href="http://www.ephp.in/" target="_blank">www.ephp.in</a>) are <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Disseminate the concepts of Universal
Health Coverage (UHC) and Health Systems (HS) in the Indian context.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Disseminate and review the
evidence of research and implementation experiences of health systems
strengthening at the National and State Level.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Provide a platform to bring
together policy makers, practitioners and researchers to reflect on issues
related to Health Systems and Universal Health Coverage. <u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm">
<b><span lang="EN-GB">Thematic Areas<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<span>  </span>Emphasis would be on role and involvement of
communities in each of these thematic areas.<span> 
</span>Keeping this focus, the conference attempts to answer some of the key questions
listed below.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>What does strengthening of
health systems actually mean? What are the contributing and limiting factors
that affect this process of strengthening health systems?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>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? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">What should the mix of services be? Who should provide it? How do we
measure it?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>How to improve access to vulnerable
populations like SC/ST, religious minorities, poor, those living in remote
areas? How do we measure it?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>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?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">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? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>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?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">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? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">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?<u> <u></u><u></u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:77.35pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-GB"><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">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.)?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB">What are we looking for?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">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.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Presentations by policy makers looking at the evidence and
     proposing pragmatic solutions<u></u><u></u></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB">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 <a href="http://www.ephp.in/" target="_blank">www.ephp.in</a> Please structure your abstract as per the
guidelines provided below in order to fit the online submission criteria.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Title<u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Authors & Institutional Affiliation<u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Corresponding Author-Contact Information (Email as well as
     phone)<u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Description of the problem (Max. 100 words)<u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Methods (Min.100 words & Max. 150 words)<u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Main findings (Min.150 Max. 200 words)<u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">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. <u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Conflict of Interest Statement (If there are no conflicting
     interests, please say so)<u></u><u></u></span></li>
 <li><span lang="EN-GB">Funding Source (Name of funding agency, Grant number if any)<u></u><u></u></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Conference
Secretariat <u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Institute of Public Health,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB">250, 2^nd C Main,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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