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Community Update
No. 2: 23 December 2005
In this Issue
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From the Moderator | Network Activity | Member Postings | Community News
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From the Moderator
Dear Friends
Season’s Greetings. Let me first welcome our new colleagues who have joined since the last update – Welcome!!
Since the last update we have had quite a few exciting exchanges in our network. We have talked about adolescent nutrition and research, medical termination pregnancy and issues on urban health.
This year has been exhilarating and a learning experience for us, all of us in Solution Exchange, we hope to take this forward with you and reach out to the furthest corner through emails or other means.
It is now time for looking
forward to the next year; a lot of activities are lined up starting with the
much awaited e-discussion. We have plans to spread the knowledge sharing
initiative to different states of
Over and above the routine evaluation of our services, we invite you to give ideas and actions points, but most importantly participate in community discussion which is an amazing learning process and a big motivator for trying new things.
Best Wishes for the New Year.
Sincerely
meghendra
Meghendra Banerjee Resource Person & Moderator, Health Communities Solution Exchange _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Completed Queries (from 7 November to 23 December)
Anaemia and KAP Studies of Fisher Folk, from ADRA, Cuddalore, Tamilnadu (Comparative Experiences & Examples) Cross Posted with Food & Nutrition Security Community(Posted 16 December 2005) Advice for anemia control study in fisher folk, including references to various KAP methodologies Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (147 k) PDF (185 k)
Methodology for Calculating Incidence of Anemia in School Children, from Ludhiana (Examples) Cross Posted with Food & Nutrition Security Community (Posted 12 December) Advice & examples for conducting a Anemia study in school goers, including detailed discussion on Blood Collection & sampling frame Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (191 k) PDF (227 k)
Reaching Out of School Adolescents for Anemia Control, from Medical College Vadodara, Gujarat (Comparative Experiences). Cross-posted with Food & Nutrition Security Community. (Posted 8 December) Ways and means of reaching out of school adolescent girls to improve their nutritional status and control anemia effectively. Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (200 k) PDF (80 k)
Operationalisation of urban ICDS, from USAID – UHRC, New Delhi (Comparative Experiences). (Posted 29 November) Operational issues facing the implementation of ICDS for the urban poor, including functional linkages with other Government Departments and NGOs. Download this Consolidated Reply – MS
Word (198 k)
PDF
(228 k) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Open Queries
Send your replies to se-mch at solutionexchange-un.net
Indices for measuring nutritional status in children, from NFI New Delhi, (Advice). (Additional Reply); Cross Posted with Food & Nutrition Security Community. Discussing issues in anthropometry to find the most suited indices for measuring nutritional status in children in India
Issues & operatives in current practices of Medical Termination of Pregnancy in India
Implementation of Health Programmes by Panchayats, from CINI, Kolkata (Comparative Experiences; Advice). Reply by 28 December, 2005 ,Cross Posted with Decentralization Community Operational issues for Panchayati Raj system to deliver health or related services at various levels, including monitoring indicators |
Community News
Upcoming
First E Discussion in January – the poll dates to select topic will be declared soon
Recently Held
The MCH Community Visioning Workshop
Visit the workshop home page for Agenda, Reports & presentations
From other Solution Exchange Communities
Coming Up
Food & Nutrition Security
Community – Visioning Workshop,
Recently Held
Regional Meeting (South) on Solution Exchange for the Water and Environmental Sanitation Network; Chennai, 7 November 2005
Read the agenda (DOC, 55 KB)
Read the Report (DOC, 140 KB)
From our Partners
WHO
National Conference on Research in HIV & AIDS has been postponed and will now be held from 9th – 12th April 2006, New Delhi
Pocket book of hospital care for children – Guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources – 2005
Available
at http ://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/New_Publications/ (11 MB)
UNICEF
The State of the World’s Children 2006 – Excluded & Invisible
Available
at http://www.unicef.org/sowc06
UNFPA
State of the World’s Population – 2005
Available at
http://www.unfpa.org/swp
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Membership
It gives me great pleasure to tell you that we are over 500 now. We are still trying to put together a member list, which is very important and should be around soon. It is also very important to note that a lot of you have changed your jobs; emails etc. please let us know about that – we need to keep the database updated. Till you have your member’s page – where you will be able to change your profile by yourself, you can let me know about the changes (some of you have already done that) I will update the database. This is important; members need to know who they are talking to – so please help us in keeping things straight. ______________________________________________________________________________________
Upcoming Events From Sandip Roy, IPHA,
Joint National conference of IPHA
& IAPSM, 21 to 24 January 2006, on
the occasion of IPHA’s golden jubilee year. To be HELD at
From K Pappu, Child In Need Institute, Child In Need Institute (CINI) & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) are pleased to announce the “2nd Short Course on Design and Evaluation of Behaviour Change Programmes in Reproductive and Sexual Health" to be held between 13 and 18 February 2006 in Kolkata, India. Last Date of Application 31st December 2005. The detailed course brochure and the online application form are available at http://www.cini-india.org and http://www.cini-india.org/appform respectively.
From Preeti Anand,
Janani, Janani Tech Meet “Using Technology to Improve Service Delivery for
the Poor” – Janani is organizing a two-day
meet on January 16 and 17, 2006. The Meet will focus on bringing
together organizations using technologies in various forms to bridge service
delivery gaps to be able to effectively deliver to the poor sections of the
society. Venue - Silver Oaks, Habitat
World,
From E M Rafique,
UNAIDS, As a part of AIIMS Golden Jubilee Celebrations, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi is organizing the Conference on “HIV/AIDS and TB: Past, Present and Future: 2006” on 13th, 14th & 15th of January 2006 at New Delhi. Please visit the Conference Pages for more information at http://www.aiims.edu/hat2006/index_HAT_2006.htm and http://www.aiims.ac.in/hat2006/index_HAT_2006.htm
Job Opportunities
From Meghendra Banerjee, Resource Person; Posted 20th December 2005 Solution Exchange has advertised for the position of Research Associate for Health Communities (UNDP Vacancy Announcement No. UNDP/SC/2005/086). Closing Date: 2 January 2006. Send in application to jobs.in@undp.org. Read More at http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/newsupdate/res-02-231205-10.doc
We are building this section for regular updates on job
opportunities in the MCH field. So if you have a vacancy you may want to put
it here!!
Resource Corner
Posted by K Suresh,
UNICEF, Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI) - A Package for hastening child survival & quality of life of children; by Dr. K. Suresh, UNICEF, New Delhi; December 2005 http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/newsupdate/res-02-231205-11.doc (86 KB) A small concept and update paper on IMNCI.
Posted by Ananth
Kumar, JNU, Please find the reference of Journal of health and Development. For Journal of Health and Development you can write to the publisher at Dhruv Narayan, Daanish Books, A - 901, Taj Apartments, Gazipur, Delhi, India – 110096, Phone: 91-11-55785559, 22442658, Email: daanishbooks@gmail.com; See the list of articles at http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/newsupdate/res-02-231205-12.htm
Posted by Hema Divakar, FOGSI, Report of AOFOG – FOGSI PPH Initiative Workshop
held in
Posted by Medha Gandhi, IPAS, Medical Abortion in Bihar and Jharkhand: A study of service providers, chemists, women and women, by Bela Ganatra (Ipas), Vinoj Manning (Ipas), Suranjeen Prasad Pallipamulla (SDA, Ranchi) ; IPAS 2005 http://www.ipas.org/publications/en/INDMEDAB_E05_en.pdf (1.6 MB) This study aims to gauge knowledge and opinions the service providers & chemists for the potential of medical abortion for early pregnancy termination in two Indian states – Bihar & Jharkhand.
Is anyone interested to share their readings, new publications
with the community? We are building this resource corner, where your
recommended readings will feature.
Previous Update
MCHealth Community Update #1; Posted 7th November 2005 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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