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NIHFW is an apex technical
institute of the country and serves as a "think tank" for the promotion of
various public health programmes in the country. In this context, NIHFW
through Networking and partnership proposes to develop a "Public Health
Education & Research Consortium(PHERC)" and looks forward to
individuals and organizations like Medical
Colleges, SIHFWs/HFWTCs/CTIs,Nursing Schools/Colleges and Mother
NGOs to participate in the
same.
Aim of the
Consortium:
To
develop Strategies for greater involvement of partner institutions in
national public health programs through capacity building for education
and research.
Despite significant gains made
in last few decades,India’s public health
challenges are huge; they are also growing and shifting at an
unprecedented rate. The concerns shown by the organizations at the global
level indicate that, in view of the resurgence of various epidemics, both
infectious and non-infectious, the situation can be handled only through
the public health management approach. This urgency was realized and
expressed in the public health conference in
India expressed as “Calcutta
declaration”, which calls for the creation of appropriate structure for
public health professionals and promoting the reforms for public health
education & training. Followed this in a joint meeting of IPHA, ISMOC
and Indian Association of Epidemiologists in 2000 at Agra, resolution was
passed for initiation & carrying out of the structural changes in
Public Health System in India.
The Department of Community Medicine of various Medical
Colleges along with the Nursing Colleges, Health Training Institutions
(SIHFW and HFWTC), Collaborating Training Institutions and Mother NGOs
have been functioning for the promotion of public health either in small
groups or totally in isolation. This may be one of the reasons for not
achieving the desired objectives of the various health programs. Urgency
felt for joint collaborative effort, through networking and partnership
process to pool all the available human resources from above mentioned
institutions and also develop consensus strategies for the uplift of
Public Health activities in India.
The proposed consortium has been formed under the aegis of the
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW). NIHFW is the apex
technical institution under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GOI
with the mandate to promote health and family welfare programs in the
country through education, training, research, evaluation and other
specialized services. As the nodal
agency for imparting in-service training to health personnel and
conducting research under NRHM, NIHFW is an ideal partner to facilitate
the mainstreaming of the Department of Community Medicine in Medical
colleges, Nursing Colleges and other public health education and training
institutions in the health care delivery system of the country, and for
providing a platform to build networks for capacity building of these
institutions with the following activities:
1. Sharing of
information on programmes/guidelines and recent updates through print and
electronic media
2. Research
Methodology Workshops
3. Rapid Appraisal
Methods for Partnership Research
4. GIS Mapping of
Health Manpower
5. Capacity
building for improving District Health System through Workshops/Joint
Meetings etc.
6. To initiate
discussion on priority issues on Public
Health
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