Universal health coverage was established in the WHO constitution of 1948 declaring health a fundamental human right.The goal of universal health coverage is to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need without suffering financial hardship when paying for them.
The health system in Bangladesh is pluralistic and aims to ensure healthy lives for all citizens as outlined in its constitution and international agreements. It consists of community clinics, rural health centers, upazila health complexes, and district and specialized hospitals. However, the health workforce is unevenly distributed between urban and rural areas. National health programs target communicable diseases, family planning and maternal and child health. The government finances 26% of health spending while out-of-pocket payments account for 63.3%. Bangladesh aims to expand coverage through its health sector reform programs.
The document presents the key aspects of India's National Health Policy of 2017. The policy was introduced to address the changing health priorities in India and the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. It aims to achieve universal health coverage and increase trust in the public health system by focusing on quality. The policy's objectives include progressively achieving universal health coverage and increasing life expectancy to 70 years by 2025. It proposes increasing public health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP and focuses on preventive healthcare, communicable diseases, mental health, and programs for mothers, children, adolescents and immunization. The conclusion emphasizes developing new vaccines and digital tools to improve healthcare efficiency.
The course offers an opportunity to develop a holistic understanding of Global health, its functions, and scope. The course attendants will learn the principles of Primary Health Care, the course is expected to help the students to understand and internalize international health and public health transition facilitating the integration of health sector with other sectors.
This document provides an overview of universal health coverage. It defines universal health coverage as access for all to quality health services without financial hardship. The document discusses why moving toward universal health coverage is important for health, economic, and political benefits. It also examines how countries can accelerate progress through health financing reforms and by raising sufficient funds, pooling resources, and purchasing health services. Key challenges around measuring and achieving equity in universal health coverage are also addressed.
This document discusses several key concepts related to health policy:
1. It identifies prerequisites for health such as peace, shelter, education, food, income, and environmental sustainability.
2. It outlines five areas for building healthy public policy: building healthy environments, strengthening communities, developing personal skills, reorienting healthcare services, and advocating for these changes.
3. It discusses prevention strategies starting from changing social and environmental risk factors and continuing support for at-risk groups. Prevention strategies are amenable to policy changes.
The document defines social determinants as the economic and social conditions that shape health, such as income, education, employment, housing, and gender. It provides examples of social determinants like income level, employment conditions, and access to healthcare services. It also notes that addressing social determinants takes a holistic approach to healthcare and challenges paradigms that perpetuate HIV stigma. Several state organizations plan to collaborate to identify how social determinants impact clients and address root causes of HIV risk through programming.
Universal health coverage as a concept was born in 1883 when Germany introduced health coverage for achieving health status of its young population.India, is still attempting to find a way for providing appropriate, affordable and accessible health care to its population.
Understanding the concept of Universal Health CoverageHFG Project
Presented during Day One of the 2016 Nigeria Health Care Financing Training Workshop. Presented by Dr. Elaine Baruwa. More: https://www.hfgproject.org/hcf-training-nigeria
This document provides an introduction to health promotion, including its historical background, concepts, frameworks, principles, approaches and aims. It discusses definitions of health promotion from various organizations. Key frameworks for conceptualizing health promotion are presented, including models by Beattie, Tones and Tilford, Caplan and Holland, and Naidoo and Wills. The document outlines five main approaches to health promotion: medical/preventative, behavioral change, educational, empowerment, and social change. Important policy documents that have shaped the field, such as the Ottawa Charter, are also mentioned.
Healthcare is a major part of every country's development platform. By healthcare we are in fact protecting the most important driver of development. Healthcare systems are primarily safe guarding the development core engine and are the best means of sustainable development.
This document provides an overview of conceptual frameworks for understanding health systems. It defines a health system as all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health. It discusses several frameworks developed by the WHO and others to conceptualize the different components, actors and relationships within health systems. It acknowledges that health systems are complex and dynamic, with unpredictable paths of implementation for interventions. The document emphasizes that health systems should be viewed holistically as interconnected systems centered around people.
The document defines a health system as consisting of all organizations, people, and actions whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, or maintain health. It discusses health systems as complex adaptive systems with many interacting elements. It presents several conceptual frameworks for analyzing health systems, including the WHO health system building blocks and the Antwerp health system dynamics framework. It then discusses the concept of health system strengthening and changing global approaches to improving health systems over time, moving from a disease-focused approach to a more holistic health system strengthening approach.
A presentation by Karen Nelson, MBA, MSW, RSW, of the Ottawa Hospital, made to social workers at their 2013 Annual Meeting. A very thorough overview with significant research supporting the link between Social Determinants of Health and healthcare outcomes.
THIS PPT IS ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN CHINA MOSTLY STUDIED IN ECONOMICS.
THIS ALSO SHOWS YOU ABOUT THE INSURANCE POLICY AND GDP RATE AND MANY MORE
This document summarizes key concepts related to social inequalities in health. It discusses health inequality versus health inequity, providing definitions and noting that inequity refers to differences that are unfair or unjust. Several theories are presented to explain the origins of health inequities, including artefact explanations, natural/social selection, materialist/structuralist explanations, and cultural/behavioral explanations. Evidence is also reviewed relating socioeconomic factors like income and education to differences in access to dental services and oral health outcomes.
The document discusses the history and definitions of health promotion. It provides:
1) The term "health promotion" was first used in 1974 and refers to strategies that tackle the wider determinants of health beyond just healthcare.
2) Health promotion aims to empower people to have more control over their health and aspects of their lives that affect it.
3) Key strategies of health promotion include building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and reorienting health services.
This document provides an overview of health systems and their development and strengthening. It defines a health system and its key goals of good health outcomes, responsiveness, and fairness in financing. The six building blocks of a health system are described as service delivery, health workforce, information, medical products/vaccines/technologies, financing, and leadership/governance. Health system strengthening is defined as initiatives that improve one or more of these functions to enhance access, coverage, quality or efficiency. The document discusses challenges faced by health systems and some opportunities to address them.
Universal health coverage means that everyone has access to health care services including preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative care when needed at an affordable cost. The key objectives of universal health coverage are to ensure equitable access to quality health services for all, regardless of ability to pay, and provide financial protection so that costs of care do not cause financial hardship. Universal health coverage aims to make health care available, accessible and affordable for entire populations.
The document summarizes recommendations from the High Level Expert Group on achieving Universal Health Coverage in India. It discusses expanding health coverage to all citizens through a national health package, increasing public spending on health to 3% of GDP, strengthening primary healthcare and developing norms for facilities at each level of care. It also emphasizes improving human resources for health, community participation, and access to medicines. The overall vision is to ensure equitable access to quality health services for all Indians.
Each year, the OHE sponsors a lecture that explores a timely issue in medicine or health economics. At the 22nd Annual Lecture, the issues and challenges of universal health care coverage in low- and middle-income countries were presented by Professor Anne Mills of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The audio of this lecture now is available at http://news.ohe.org/2014/08/19/annual-lecture-2014-universal-health-coverage/
This document discusses strategies for achieving whole system change towards universal health coverage through primary healthcare renewal. It outlines that removing user fees, improving drug supply, maintaining health worker motivation, strengthening supervision and the gatekeeping role of primary care facilities requires considering the interlinkages of a system-level intervention. Whole system change to achieve good health at low cost requires effective primary care, fair financing, new health worker roles and payment mechanisms, and essential drug supply. Primary healthcare increases access, manages common health issues, prevents diseases, focuses on the individual and avoids unnecessary care. Universal health coverage aims to ensure all people obtain needed health services without financial hardship and requires raising funds, reducing financial barriers, allocating funds efficiently, meeting priority needs through integrated care
Health Financing for UHC – two sides of the coinHFG Project
Presented at “Financial Protection and Improved Access to Health Care: Peer-to-Peer Learning Workshop Finding Solutions to Common Challenges” in Accra, Ghana, February 2016. To learn more, visit: https://www.hfgproject.org/ghana-uhc-workshop
Violence against women is prevalent in the United States, with one in four women experiencing rape or physical assault. These acts most often come from intimate partners. On average, more than three women are murdered by husbands or boyfriends every day. The document discusses the types and causes of violence against women, including physical, verbal, emotional, sexual assault, rape, and domestic violence. It also covers medical considerations after an assault, understanding the psychology of abusers, and ways for victims to regain control over their lives.
Sexual harassment is common in workplace. This presentation includes its impact, employee and employer responsibility and in last action plan to deal with harassment.
The health system in Egypt faces challenges as a developing country with a large population of over 83 million people. The medical education system includes 6 years of study plus an internship year to become a doctor. Hospitals are divided into primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, with university hospitals providing free tertiary care. However, the system is strained, with long wait times, fewer hospital beds than other countries, and heavy patient loads. Continuing medical education allows doctors to specialize in areas like internal medicine and plastic surgery.
Application of a test or a procedure to large number of population who have no symptoms of a particular disease for the purpose of determining their likelihood of having the disease.
This document discusses smart governance of pharmaceutical systems within universal health coverage (UHC) frameworks. It notes that governance occurs at the macro, meso, and micro levels and involves regulating many facets of pharmaceutical systems like quality, supply chains, and access. The key challenges of governance are outlined as determining who and what is covered, how to access covered items, costs, quality of delivered items, and out-of-pocket costs. Four essential practices of smart governance are identified as transparency, coherent decision-making structures, consistency and stability, and stakeholder participation with supervision and regulation. The roles of various players like WHO, governments, insurers, and industry are also briefly discussed.
Health financing strategies uhc 27 09 12Vikash Keshri
This document discusses health financing strategies for universal health coverage. It begins by defining universal health coverage and providing historical perspectives. It then discusses the current state of health financing in India, including low public spending, high private out-of-pocket expenditures, and variations between states. The document outlines that achieving universal health coverage requires raising sufficient funds, removing financial barriers, and using resources efficiently. It examines strategies for generating more health resources, utilizing resources effectively to prevent waste, and proposes the key recommendations of India's High Level Expert Group on universalizing access to affordable healthcare.
The document discusses health services and primary health care in Egypt. It provides background on the Ministry of Health and Population, which was established in 1936. It outlines Egypt's health system, which includes primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of care provided through public health units and hospitals. The document also discusses health insurance in Egypt, challenges in the health system, and strategic plans for health sector reform focusing on infrastructure development and improving human resources. It defines primary health care and reviews its principles, approaches like GOBI-FFF, essential services, and role in Egypt through primary health units. Criteria for effective primary health care include coordination, community participation, customer satisfaction, and monitoring and evaluation.
Universal Health Coverage and Health Insurance - IndiaDr Chetan C P
Presentation is a case about cutting the risk fragmentation and having a universal pool for Health Insurance as one of the tools for achieving UHC in India.
The document discusses the Planning Programming Budgeting System (PPBS) used in government settings. PPBS aims to integrate planning, programming, and budgeting functions to provide better analytical basis for program decision making. It establishes a structure to identify organizational objectives and courses of action to achieve goals. PPBS focuses on the front-end phases of planning, programming, and budgeting to inform operations and evaluation later on.
This document provides an overview of health insurance, including definitions of key terms, models of health expenditure, and examples of health insurance systems in different countries. It discusses the history of health insurance beginning in Germany in 1883 and adoption in other countries. It also outlines the traditional model of health insurance focusing on insurers/employers and proposes a more flexible model to serve different populations. Private health insurance is described as having an important role to play in overall healthcare systems by enhancing access and increasing service capacity.
The document summarizes the major characteristics of the US healthcare delivery system. It notes that the US system has no central governing agency and little integration between parts of the system. It is technology-driven, focuses on acute care, and is high in costs but unequal in access, resulting in average health outcomes. The US relies more on private sector involvement compared to other developed countries where government plays a larger role.
Universal Healthcare - Dr. Srinath Reddy Report to Planning CommisionAnup Soans
The document provides an executive summary of the recommendations from the High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage for India. Some key points:
- The group defines Universal Health Coverage as ensuring equitable access for all Indian citizens to affordable, quality health services including promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative care as well as addressing the social determinants of health.
- The state should be primarily responsible for guaranteeing UHC through both direct service provision and enabling other providers, though not necessarily the only provider.
- The recommendations are guided by principles of universality, equity, comprehensive care, financial protection and other factors.
- The vision is for every citizen to be entitled to essential primary
This document discusses health insurance in India, including what it is, reasons for rising healthcare costs, why it is essential, and the current market and challenges. It outlines that health insurance covers medical expenses, is an agreement between an individual/group and insurer for specific medical coverage in exchange for premiums. While healthcare spending is increasing in India, only a small portion of the population has coverage, representing an opportunity for the insurance industry and hospitals to partner in promoting various insurance policies and educating the public on benefits of health insurance.
This document discusses health for all as a goal and outlines steps needed for universal health coverage in India by 2022. It recommends increasing public health expenditure to at least 3% of GDP, developing a national health package with essential services, strengthening human resources for health, and ensuring access to affordable medicines for all through price controls and expanding the essential drugs list. The goal is to make affordable, quality health services accessible to all Indians.
This document discusses healthcare in India and proposes ways to make it more affordable and accessible. It notes that healthcare costs are rising and most people rely on private healthcare, while public healthcare is underfunded and understaffed. It analyzes issues like disease burdens, the growth of private sector, health insurance schemes, use of generics, and medical tourism. It recommends increasing public spending on healthcare to at least 5% of GDP, improving infrastructure, enhancing the health workforce, and promoting primary healthcare to achieve universal coverage in an equitable manner.
This document discusses universal health coverage and provides information on key facts, definitions, objectives, and challenges. It summarizes the evolution of universal health coverage in India through various committee reports and schemes. Key recommendations from the High Level Expert Group report on achieving universal health coverage in India include establishing a national health package, developing health service norms, increasing human resources for health, strengthening community participation, and improving access to medicines and technology. Monitoring progress and overcoming challenges such as inadequate services, varying quality, and affordability issues are important to achieve universal health coverage.
This document proposes a plan to universalize access to quality primary healthcare in India. It discusses some of the key problems in healthcare access such as poor rural facilities, malnutrition, and high infant mortality. It then outlines a proposed biennial door-to-door health inspection program led by teams consisting of doctors, nurses, and municipal representatives. The program would check sanitation, nutrition, and provide basic medical aid and awareness. Implementing such inspections through a dedicated body in each block could help ensure even underprivileged communities receive quality primary care. Challenges to the plan include funding, staffing, and ensuring standards are uniformly applied.
Inclusive Innovation and Growth strategy- Healthcare IndiaRuchi Dass
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An “inclusive innovation strategy” is a set of policies that connects excluded populations to a nation’s innovation system. It complements frontier innovation by increasing the purchasing power and enhancing income-generating opportunities for the poor population.
HealthCursor Consulting Group India- Distribution and Marketing- Mobile network operators in Africa have identified the growing demand for financial services and micro insurance . Airtel Africa has partnered with MicroEnsure for Mobile Micro Insurance. The range of Airtel-branded insurance products includes life, accident, health, agriculture, and other forms of cover.
Connecting intermediaries, customers and surveyors- ICICI Lombard India's mobile initiative started simply enough, with a set of basic applications that gave customers a consolidated view of all their policies, a reminder service to renew a policy, and a way to track the status of a claim. But as they matured with the mobile platform, they re-visited the paradigm and devised new ways to provide customers with more value-added and user-friendly features. This is however restricted to Auto insurance only.
Encryption, Transactions and handling customer grievance- Public sector general insurance company United India Insurance launched a mobile-based real-time fund transfer facility for payment of premium. M-Power enables customers to renew their policies and also remit the premium for approved proposals. To use this facility, one has to get an MMID (an identification number called - mobile money identifier) from his/her bank and enable one’s mobile with the application given by the bank. However, there are only 10 banks on board with this platform. This initiative follows the launch of its Internet-based sales, customer grievance portal and information-cum-sales kiosks.
Sales, awareness and providing access- Bima, a young Swedish microinsurance company, is using mobile phones to sell as many as three billion new insurance policies to the global poor. Bima, that has begun to access this untapped market, is now one of the largest mobile insurance platforms in the world. In just three years, Bima has acquired 4 million clients in Africa and Asia and is adding 400,000 new subscribers per month. Bima has been tackling many of the obstacles—education, pricing, premium collection—that prevent poor people from obtaining such benefits. For instance, Bima products such as life, accident and health insurance cost "as little as $0.20 to $6.00 a month. Last month, Leapfrog invested $4.25 million in Bima, which will allow the company to expand even further within Africa and Asia as well as reach into new markets in Latin America.
Roadmap for Universal Health Care. FDR, PHFI, and Loksatta are convening a Roundtable of experts, thinkers and practitioners to have a purposive dialogue and help evolve a viable, effective model of universal healthcare delivery in India
The document discusses moving towards universal access to health care in India. It defines key concepts of universal health care and outlines principles like public funding playing a central role, comprehensive services for all, and no fees at point of access. It examines issues like what services should be covered, how it will be funded through taxes or insurance, and how services will be organized between public and private sectors. Specific challenges in India like the large private sector and funding mechanisms are also discussed.
Keynote address: Financing for Universal Coverage - Bart CrielIPHIndia
This document discusses universal health coverage (UHC) and challenges in achieving it. It notes that UHC aims for all people to access health services without financial hardship. Achieving UHC requires more resources, raising funds fairly, and efficient spending. Most countries spend too little. Out-of-pocket payments deter use and impoverish people. Pooled funds through prepayment are better. Research is needed to understand inequities and improve programs. Community involvement may help transform health insurance for the poor. More comprehensive systems combining financial, supply, and management reforms are needed to organize accessible, quality care for all.
The document discusses primary health care and different types of health insurance. It states that primary health care is essential health care that is accessible to communities based on their needs and affordable costs. The document also outlines different types of health insurance plans including HMOs, PPOs, HDHPs, and catastrophic plans. HMOs and EPOs provide coverage only within their networks while PPOs and POS plans allow for some out-of-network coverage at a higher cost. HDHPs have lower premiums but higher deductibles while catastrophic plans only cover major medical expenses.
“Sarvé bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarvé santu nirāmayāḥ, Sarvé bhadrāṇi pashyantu, mā kashchid_duḥkha-bhāg-bhavét”. The meaning of this Sanskrit Sloka is “All should/must be happy, be healthy, see good; may no one have sorrow. Mahatma Gandhi also says, “It is health which is real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver”. Without robust health nobody can do anything. WHO emphasized on “Health for all” in this 21st Century in Geneva Conference in 1998. Government of India also committed to the goal of ‘Health for All’. WHO defined “health” as "State of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". There are strong linkages between population, health and development. India’s health challenges are not only huge in magnitude due to its large population but they are complex due to its diversity and the chronic poverty and inequality. There are extreme inter-state variations, caused by not only the cultural diversity but because -the states are at different stages of demographic transition, epidemiological transition and socio economic development. Along with the old problems like persistence of communicable diseases and high maternal mortality in some parts, there is an urgent need to address the emerging issues like the threat of non-communicable diseases, HIV (AIDS) and health problems of the growing aged population. Accelerating demographic transition is not only necessary for the population stabilization but it is closely related to health goals. Despite substantial improvements in some health indicators in the past decade, India contributes disproportionately to the global burden of disease, with health indicators that compare unfavorably with other middle-income countries and India's regional neighbours. Large health disparities between states, between rural and urban populations, and across social classes persist. A large proportion of the population is impoverished because of high out-of-pocket health-care expenditures and suffers the adverse consequences of poor quality of health care. The obligation of the Government of India is to ensure the highest possible health status to its population and access to quality health care has been recognized by a number of its key policy documents. This paper attempts to study the over view of health care in India.
Key words: Health Care, National Health Policy, Access, Affordability, Equity, Urban Vs Rural-------------
The document summarizes Pakistan's healthcare system. It consists of both private and public sectors, with the private sector serving 70% of the population. Healthcare is organized into three levels - primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary care is the first level and focuses on preventive services through facilities like basic health units and rural health centers. Secondary care is provided at district hospitals and focuses on referral services and specialist care. Tertiary care in specialized hospitals handles referrals from primary and secondary levels. The document also outlines the key principles of primary healthcare as defined by the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978.
This document provides an overview of the health care delivery system in India. It describes the organizational structure at the central, state, district, block, primary health center, and village levels. The key shortcomings are discussed as inverse care, impoverishing care, fragmented care, unsafe care, and misdirected care. Reforms proposed by the WHO are also outlined, including universal coverage, service delivery, public policy, and leadership reforms. The objectives and importance of establishing Indian Public Health Standards are also presented. In conclusion, it acknowledges advances but notes the system remains ineffective and discusses needed reforms and decentralization to improve healthcare quality and delivery.
1. The document discusses the principles and levels of healthcare, with a focus on primary healthcare. It emphasizes equitable access to healthcare, community participation, and using appropriate technologies.
2. Primary healthcare aims to shift resources from urban to rural areas to address inequalities. It relies on local resources and community involvement through village health workers.
3. The goals of "Health for All by 2000" and Millennium Development Goals placed universal health access at the forefront of development. Sustainable Development Goals from 2015 integrate economic, social and environmental dimensions.
The document discusses primary health care (PHC) as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). It outlines the key principles of PHC established at the International Conference on PHC in Alma-Ata in 1978, including making essential health care universally accessible through community participation and affordable locally. The document also examines the history of the PHC movement and WHO's goal of "Health for All" by 2000. Finally, it identifies six pillars that PHC is built on: social justice, preventive health care, community participation, inter-sector cooperation, appropriate technology, and sustainable measures.
The document discusses the Indian healthcare system and its key challenges. It notes that the system faces substantial challenges in providing quality healthcare due to factors such as a fast growing population, changing disease profiles, a multilayered healthcare landscape, lack of infrastructure, shortage of manpower, low public expenditure on health, and inaccessibility of services - especially in rural areas. It also examines the disease burden in India and initiatives by the government to improve the system. However, it concludes that India still lags in key healthcare indicators and there is need for improved healthcare planning, resources, and financing to address the country's growing healthcare challenges.
The National Health Policy 2017 aims to raise public health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP to provide comprehensive primary health care through 'Health and Wellness Centers'. It envisions a larger package of assured primary care that includes services for non-communicable diseases, geriatrics, mental health, and palliative care. The policy also looks to improve regulatory standards for quality healthcare and reform regulatory systems to promote domestic manufacturing of drugs and devices as well as medical education.
This document discusses International Nurses Day 2018 and related topics. It begins by outlining the presentation's flow, then provides information about the International Council of Nurses (ICN), including its founding, objectives, and work with UN agencies. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their relationship to Millennium Development Goals are explained. Universal Health Coverage and its importance are discussed. The theme of International Nurses Day 2018 - "Nurses: A Voice to Lead: Health is a Human Right" - is presented across four parts focusing on health as a human right, access to healthcare, investment and economic growth, and the role of nurses in policy. The document emphasizes nurses' knowledge and ability to advocate
Healthcare delivery systems in India need a thorough look by reformist in India. Ehealth may be a probable option tool to help integrating hospital and community care
IMPLEMENTING ACTIVE AGEING (A WHO FRAMEWORK POLICY) IN COMMUNITY DWELLING E...Alakananda Banerjee
The innovative project empowers elders in community on health and social issues. Local Senior Citizen Organizations in cities are adopted. A Multi Service Health Centre is run by elders, in a space donated by the organization. Collaborative sessions on common diseases are taken by allied health professionals training older persons who volunteer to be local supervisors. These supervisors take care of elders in their neighborhood who are inactive /needing long term care. The nuclei of elders thus formed, are aware of issues pertaining to them, improving their QOL. Elders participate /plan activities according to existing culture and environment for e.g. in our two Agreements for Performance of Work with WHO SEARO at New Delhi (2014) & Kolkata (2015) targeted older women volunteers, where self management of chronic diseases like arthritis, hypertension with simple lifestyle modifications incorporating diet and exercises were taught. The focus group of women planned interventions with inputs from professionals. Our projects are monitored and data published in various national and international journals. www.dharmafoundationofindia.org.Supervisors refer elders to the centre, which help elders avail health services in the neighborhood and ,financially help sustain running of the Centre too. Such simple, cost effective intervention can be future guidelines of Multi Service Health Centres/Community /Recreation Centres/Polyclinics in the urban areas and Primary Care Centres in rural and semi urban areas. Preventive health models which empower populations may be one of the important aspects of future eldercare in India. We hope to develop future guidelines with data from multicentric projects in India.We have our projects of MSHC presently at Kolkata and Ahmednagar(Maharashtra)
Neuroplasticity, also known as brain plasticity, is an umbrella term that describes lasting change to the brain throughout an animal's life course. The term gained prominence in the latter half of the 20th century, when new research showed many aspects of the brain remain changeable (or "plastic") even into adulthood.
Physical therapists are exercise experts, providing services for a wide range of people to
optimise their physical ability. They prescribe exercise as part of a structured, safe, and
effective programme.
An important part of their role is to help people remain active as they age. More than any other
profession, physical therapists (known in many countries as physiotherapists) prevent and treat
chronic disease and disability in aging adults through specifically prescribed activity and
movement.
The World Health Organization encourages regular physical activity for older adults, because it
has been shown to improve the functional status and quality of life in this group of individuals.
Towards building an age friendly city :Building community and health service ...Alakananda Banerjee
The projects of Dharma foundation of India are centered around developing care models based on the WHO guidelines of Active Ageing and Towards Building Age Friendly Communities for older persons The strategy supports full participation and inclusion of older persons in the life of their communities.This project taught Self Management of Arthritis and Hypertension to older women.
This document outlines an initiative by the Dharma Foundation of India to introduce self-management programs for health issues common in older community-dwelling adults. It notes issues like arthritis, respiratory disease and more. It aims to empower elders through workshops, distribution of educational booklets, and forming elder groups to jointly address health, social and financial problems while promoting active aging. The goal is to establish an integrated community-based approach and inform future government policies to better support the growing elderly population.
This document summarizes several studies conducted between 2009-2013 on active aging and the elderly population in India. It discusses the aims of developing an active aging model to empower community-dwelling elderly and evaluate their quality of life. It also describes the rising elderly population in India and issues they face related to health, isolation, finances and lack of support systems. Several case studies are mentioned that evaluate the impact of active aging programs, group exercises, and technology on the physical and mental well-being of elderly participants.
A growing number of elderly with chronic diseases or disabilities require a family caregiver, or several, for physical, emotional, and financial support; for daily activities and medical.
Medical advances, new drugs, improved technology, and possible preventive strategies might be decreasing mortality and extending life. Since the 1970’s, medical care has resulted in a progressive shift from “care in the community to care by the community.”
This oral presentation was given at the International Congress on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, AIIMS 2009.
It is important to get practical insights into the problems faced by community dwelling elderly in rural and urban India.
Information collected can act as a guideline for taking necessary steps to reform awareness and attitude of assistive technology amongst professional care providers of the elderly and the elderly in India.This keynote presentation was done at Akita,Japan ,in October 2009.
Effect of Active Ageing Program in Improving Geriatric Depression Score in Co...Alakananda Banerjee
Depression is a common mental disorder that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest, pleasure, feeling of guilt or low self worth, disturbed sleep/appetite, low energy and poor concentration.
According to WHO, these problems can become chronic or recurrent and lead to substantial impairment in an individual’s ability to take care of his/her everyday responsibilities.
Community based mental health studies have revealed that the point prevalence of depressive disorders amongst the geriatric population in India varies between 13-25%.
According to WHO remaining active means maintaining one’s physical , social and mental potential throughout the entire lifecycle, allowing the involvement of elderly in social, economic, cultural, spiritual and civic activities.
A Support Group for Breast Cancer may be one of the aspects of care of breast cancer, where education and awareness of problems faced by women after a breast cancer may be discussed and shared.
The involuntary loss of urine, which is objectively demonstrable, with such a degree of severity that it becomes a social or hygienic problem is a common scene in older women. These slides focus on role of physiotherapy in treatment of urinary incontinence in older women
TOWARDS BUILDING AN AGE FRIENDLY COMMUNITYCollaborative initiative of WHO-S...Alakananda Banerjee
Community and Health Services a feature of the WHO Guidelines on Towards Building Age Friendly Community was adopted for community dwelling older women at Chattarpur Extension,New Delhi.Results of the collaboration betwwen WHO-SEARO and dharma Foundation of India is shared in these slides
The Active Ageing Program (AAP) is a pilot program run by the Dharma Foundation of India that aims to promote healthy and active aging for the elderly population in India. From 2010-2011, the AAP enrolled over 650 elderly individuals in Delhi and Gurgaon. It held workshops on health issues and formed support groups. Local elderly leaders were trained to care for 15 members each. The program conducted health screenings and weekly group activities. Its goal is to help develop policies that recognize the elderly as a resource rather than a burden.
Using ICF to understand problems faced in the bathrooms by elders with knee painAlakananda Banerjee
The document discusses a pilot study that used the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) framework to understand elderly problems in the bathroom due to lower leg pain. Only 15% of surveyed elderly homes had grab rails in the bathroom, indicating an environmental barrier. The ICF was useful for considering the dynamic interaction between health conditions, activities, and environmental factors on participation and identifying appropriate home modifications. More research is needed on applying the ICF to understand disability in the elderly and inform policies to ensure safe, accessible homes.
The Dharma Foundation of India under the leadership of Dr Alakananda Banerjee is working to promote the Active Ageing Initiatives in India. This slides give a brief outline of the work done in New Delhi,India
Age Friendly City, First international age-friendly cities conference,Dublin ...Alakananda Banerjee
It is important for cities to understand that the infrastructure of a city should help in mobility and self sufficiency of elders who live in the community. The WHO has frame worked guidelines based on criteria which may help to make a city Age Friendly. This concept does not only help the elders ,but all populations in general can have a safe and healthy environment.
An observational study was conducted in New Delhi, India to understand elderly attitudes towards communication and education technology. 300 community-dwelling elders aged 60 and older were surveyed on their perceptions of mobile phones, internet, television, and computers. Results showed that the majority had positive attitudes, with females and those aged 60-79 showing higher levels of satisfaction than males and those 80+. The study aims to use the ICF framework to assess how technology can facilitate or act as barriers to participation for elders.
1) The study evaluated the effects of the SmartBreathe respiratory training device on mobility and community participation in elderly individuals in New Delhi, India.
2) Six physical therapists were trained to use the SmartBreathe device and administered an 8-week respiratory training program to elderly subjects.
3) Using the International Classification of Functioning framework, the study assessed changes in respiratory functions, mobility, and community participation pre- and post-training, finding significant improvements in sensations associated with cardiovascular and respiratory functions, mobility status, and community life.
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1. Universal Healthcare Coverage
Dr Alakananda Banerjee
President
Dharma Foundation of India
Expert Member: Senior Citizen Council Of Ministry Of Social Welfare Government of NCT Of Delhi
3. Key facts
• At least a billion people suffer each year because
they cannot obtain the health services they need.
• People-centred and integrated health services are
critical for reaching universal health coverage.
4. Key facts
• 100 million are pushed below the poverty line as a result
of paying for the healthcare services they receive.
• In the next twenty years, 40-50 million new healthcare
workers will need to be trained and deployed to meet
the need.
6. Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
Universal health coverage was established in the
WHO constitution of 1948 declaring health a
fundamental human right.
The goal of universal health coverage is to ensure
that all people obtain the health services they need
without suffering financial hardship when paying for
them.
7. Out of Pocket (OOP)Payments
• Out-of-pocket payments for healthcare services
push 100 million people globally into poverty every
year.
• If people have to pay most of the cost out of their
own pockets, the poor will be unable to obtain
many of the services they need and even the rich
will be exposed to financial hardship in the event of
severe or long-term illness
8. UHC and OOP
• UHC cannot be achieved overnight.
• Key factors in determining which services
are prioritized by :
1. Epidemiological context
2. Health systems
3. Level of socioeconomic development
4. People’s expectations.
10. Statistics
• Total population (2013)1,252,140,000
• Gross national income per capita (PPP international $,
2013)5,350
• Life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2012)64/68
• Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births,
0)not available
11. Statistics
• Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years
m/f (per 1 000 population, 2012)242/160
• Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $,
2012)157
• Total expenditure on health as % of GDP
(2012)4
Global Health Observatory
12. Access to a package of essential
services
• 1.5 million hospital beds and nearly half a million
large and small health facilities.
• An estimated 80% of hospital beds and health care
providers are in urban areas.
• The public sector :20 per cent of outpatient and 40 %
of hospitalization services.
• Private sector has nearly two-thirds of all functional
hospital beds and around 85-90 % of qualified
allopathic physicians.
• Lack of doctors/nurses in India
13. Delivery of Health Services
• There is an inadequate mix of promotive, preventive,
diagnostic, curative and rehabilitative services.
• In the absence of sufficient resources, the actual
availability of services in the public sector is sub-
optimal.
• The private sector largely focuses on diagnostic and
curative services.
• Moreover, those seeking care often have to go to
different facilities to access a range of services
required.
14. Access to Medicines
• Largest supplier of generic medicines and vaccines
globally.
• Ceiling price on 348 drugs in the National List of
Essential Medicines using the Drug Price Control
Order, 2013
• Despite some decline in out of pocket spending since
the launch of the NRHM, 60% of total healthcare
expenditure, most of which is spent on medicines, is
still borne by people out of pocket, one of the highest
in the world.
15. Public Health Expenditure
• India spends 4% of its GDP on health.
• According to estimates, 39 million people fall
below the poverty line every year in India due
to catastrophic healthcare expenditure.
19. Goal of UHC
All people may obtain health services they need
without suffering financial hardship when paying
for them.
This requires:
1.a strong, efficient, well-run health system;
2.a system for financing health services;
3.access to essential medicines and technologies;
4.a sufficient capacity of well-trained, motivated health
workers.
20. Promoting factors in health systems
–Informing And Encouraging People To Stay
Healthy And Prevent Illness(prevention)
–Detecting Health Conditions Early (Early
Detection)
–Having The Capacity To Treat Disease (Curative)
–Helping Patients With Rehabilitation
(Chronic/Long Term Care)
21. A Call To Action
India: Towards Universal Health Coverage 7
Towards achievement of universal health care in India
by 2020: a call to action
K Srinath Reddy, Vikram Patel, Prabhat Jha, Vinod K Paul, A K Shiva Kumar, Lalit
Dandona, for The Lancet India Group for Universal Healthcare*
22. Healthcare for all: 2020
• Strengthen the public health system
• Reduce out-of-pocket expenditure
• Dialogue and consensus building among the stakeholders
India: Towards Universal Health Coverage 7
Towards achievement of universal health care in India
by 2020: a call to action
K Srinath Reddy, Vikram Patel, Prabhat Jha, Vinod K Paul, A K Shiva Kumar, Lalit Dandona, for The Lancet India Group for Universal Healthcare*
23. Share the costs across the population
• Compulsory contributions – through taxation
and/or insurance – to a pool of funds.
• Draw on these funds in case of illness,
regardless of how much they have contributed.
24. Government expenditure to health
• Governments need to give higher priority to health in
their budgets.
• Innovative ways:
I. Improve tax collection mechanisms.
II. Introduce levies or taxes earmarked for health, such as “sin”
taxes on the sale of tobacco, alcohol and ready to eat foods.
25. Resources wasted
• Globally, 20–40% of resources spent on health are
wasted
• Common causes of inefficiencies include demotivated
health workers, duplication of services, and
inappropriate or overuse of medicines and
technologies.
• In 2008 for example, France saved almost US$2 billion
by use of generic medicines wherever possible.
26. Existing health coverage
1. National Rural Health Mission-2005.
2. Rashtriya Swastha Bima Yojna (RSBY).
The beneficiary is any Below Poverty Line (BPL)
family,.
3. Private insurance sectors
27. Progress towards UHC
Financial Protection:
Responsiveness to Need:
1. Access to health care services
2. Coverage with services is monitored using utilization
data.(eg a Cancer Registry)
3. Service coverage is further supported by a
Preventive Healthcare quality bonus system.
29. Moving forward
Plan of action: NGO/Trusts/Registered Senior
Citizen Welfare Organisations
32. Missing
Health System
NGO/Trust/SCWO
Private HospitalSemi-Govt (Public)Hospital
Govt. Hospital
Curative care Preventive care
Suggested Preventive Program
Corporate
Companies/g
overnment
sector
employees
Absence of
government
policies
Community Care
Centre(CCC)
Allied Health Professionals
Sugar
Obesity
Pain
Blood pressure
Dementia
34. Objectives of CCC
• Outreach Services
• Human Resources Development (Training of
caregivers and elderly)
• Public Health Management
• Pilots for Universal Health Coverage
• Health Management Information Systems of
the community.
35. Government legislations
• Compulsory annual preventive health check for
employees in government and private sector.
• Discounted preventive health packages by private
sector hospitals
• Tax rebates on preventive health packages
36. Benefits of UHC
• Access to health services enables people to be more
productive and active contributors to their families
and communities.
• Financial risk protection prevents people from being
pushed into poverty when they have to pay for
health services out of their own pockets.