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Background Note for International Advisory Panel
Minutes of the International Advisory Panel
The
1st meeting of Honorable HFM with the International Advisory
Panel was held on the 3rd August
2006. In this meeting, IAP had
discussed several health sector issues on NRHM focusing on the following
aspects:
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Contextualizing
NRHM within the public health framework
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Consensus and focus on
health sector reforms across various States
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Quality, training and
career progression for the health manpower – defining standards for skill
development
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Decentralization and
developing management systems including data management as policy
instruments
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Financing, including
insurance and risk protection for the poor
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Improving nutrition,
maternal and child health (MCH)
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Addressing emerging
non communicable diseases and other major public health challenges
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Harnessing the resources of the private sector for engagement under NRHM.
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Management of
HT & cardiovascular diseases in rural areas.
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Management of
neglected tropical diseases, and Control of malaria.
Thereafter 2nd meeting of Honorable
HFM with IAP was held on 7th
August 2007 and in addition to above issues, several other issues relating
to progress under NRHM was discussed in detail and following points came
out of the meeting:
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Focus on improving the quality of care in Institutional delivery.
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Integration of PPI
with the Routine Immunization to build on the mass mobilizations of polio.
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Development of Model
districts in each state for replication and scaling up
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Blended payments to
ASHA including fixed honorarium & Performance based incentives.
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Focus on global
warming through research to control them.
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Importance of PPP
within overarching framework of NRHM.
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Importance of disease
surveillance and Intersectoral coordination.
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Need for credible
external assessment of programme.
The 3rd
meeting of Honorable
HFM with the IAP was held on the 9th
February 2008. In this meeting, the
major issues which are discussed during the discussion with the Indian
delegation are as follows:
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Process of health
structure reforms
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Human resources
required at different levels and new training in public health,
decentralization and local management
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Financing, including
insurance and risk protection for the poor
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Improving nutrition
and maternal and child health (MCH)
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Addressing emerging
non communicable diseases
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Public health
approaches for HIV/AIDS, Malaria,Kala-Azar & T.B
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Public - Private
Partnership for providing essential health services
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Providing affordable high tech costly health care
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Issue of Governance and delivery of health services
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Reaching out to the tribal population and underserved areas
4th meeting of Honorable
HFM with IAP was held on
5th
August 2008 , several issues which
are discussed during the meeting are as follows:
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Shortage
of health human resource
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Problem
of under nutrition
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Emerging
chronic disease problem
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Innovation and partnerships like the
EMRI, cell phones to ANMs underway under NRHM
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Roll
out of HMIS (Health Management Information System)
5th meeting of Honorable
HFM with IAP was held on 3rd February 2009 , several issues which
are discussed during the meeting are as follows:
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Decline
of IMR by two points
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Need of local health managers for
proper coordination at the grass root level
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Mobile phones as a data collection
device using electronic medical record at clinic level
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Use of Mobile phones for training of
ASHA and for updating her knowledge
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Training of ASHA on neo-natal
care
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Home based new natal-care
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High out of pocket expenditure
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Rashtriya Swasthya Bima
Yojana (RSBY)
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Resolution on National Alcohol Policy and food labeling
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Issues relating to the human resource gap and non communicable
disease
6th meeting of Honorable
HFM with IAP was held on 7th August
2009 , several issues which
are discussed during the meeting are as follows:
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Addressing the
challenge of human resource
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Releasing of First Report of the National Rural Health Mission for
2008-09,
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Overview
of the HMIS Portal
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Role of Public Private Partnership in achieving the desired results
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Need of managerial capacity for the health system
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Global exchange of information
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Need for better PRI training, strengthening management structure at
all levels
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Annual Health Survey being proposed under NRHM
7th meeting of International Advisory
Panel (IAP) on NRHM was held on 4th February
2010 , several issues which
are discussed during the meeting are as follows:
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Service guarantees from health
facilities
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NABH & ISO
accreditation for quality
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Providing human resource to all public health
institution
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IPHS for
all PHCs & CHCs,
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Focus on nutrition programme & outcome Indicators
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Need for
newer vaccines
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Recording of maternal deaths
8th meeting of Honorable
HFM with IAP was held on 1st February
2011 , several issues which
are discussed during the meeting are as follows:
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Project
for Model District in Assam
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Increase coverage of Immunization and introduce new vaccines
especially for rotavirus infection
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Progression of career for ASHAs
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Requirement of separate treatment for severe malnutrition and the
reluctant decline of TB incidence
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Importance of Non-communicable disease
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Rising incidence of P. falciparum malaria
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Potentials of use of Mobile phones in healthcare
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Focus
on Neonates and free and assured referral transport to the
neonates
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National Health Portal
9th meeting of Honorable HFM with IAP was held on 5th
August 2011 , several issues which
are discussed during the meeting are as follows:
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Progress
made in the health sector through NRHM
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Launch
of Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK)
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New
initiative of social marketing of contraceptives by ASHAs
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Launch
of name based Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS)
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Important
of Hib and rotavirus vaccines
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Line
listing of TB cases
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Setting
up of a specialized central drug procurement agency
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