[Ghrcmail] TALK RESCHEDULED: Private health sector in Madhya Pradesh, India : TUESDAY, February 27th at 3:00

[Daren Wade]

Due to flight delays, the speaker will be unable to arrive in Seattle until 
tomorrow, Tuesday morning. We have rescheduled this talk for Tuesday, 
February 27th from 3:00-4:00  in H-670


>> Please distribute widely. Flyer attached.

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>> Presentation: By default or design? Studies on the growth, current

>> dimensions, and characteristics of the private health sector in Madhya

>> Pradesh, India

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>> Ayesha De Costa is currently a doctoral student at the Division of

>> International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden, and is

>> attached as a research associate to the St. John’s Medical College,

>> Bangalore, India and the RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya

>> Pradesh, India. Her research work is on

>> health systems in India – with a special focus on the private health

>> sector.

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>> Dr. De Costa's presentation will include:

>> - Some background on the historical and political development of the

>> health system in India - Information on the mapping of the private

>> sector in Madhya Pradesh (60.4 million people) and subsequent

>> development of a GIS. - A discussion of the characteristics of the

>> private and public sectors in terms of numbers, qualifications,

>> institutional set ups, systems of medicine

>> practiced

>> - Public policy makers views on the reasons for the growth of the

>> private health sector and their perceptions of the private health sector

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>> Ayesha qualified as a doctor of medicine from the All India Institute

>> of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. After three years at the University

>> teaching hospital, she worked with the Danish International

>> Development Assistance (Danida), as part of the bilateral development

>> assistance between the two governments in the health sector. Ayesha

>> worked specifically with policy – the development of State Health

>> Policy and State Drug Policy in the province of Madhya Pradesh under

>> the Danida Basic health services program. She worked with the province

>> wide training of traditional birth attendants, and assisted the

>> provincial government with the development of a computerized health

>> management information system in Madhya Pradesh, India. Her other

>> areas of interest include the application of IT to health management

>> areas, access to essential drugs and medicines, and research ethics in

>> the context of developing countries.

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