New research findings at The 6th Health Research for Action National Forum
With this year's theme, "Thinking Global, Thinking Systems in Health: Strengthening Reform Initiatives" the two-day Forum will serve as a venue for research dissemination and utilization, where participants exchange ideas and experiences for better and more responsive policies and evidence-based decisions for the health sector.
Important research results will be presented in three plenary sessions and eight parallel technical sessions. Plenary 1 highlights sector-wide approach for health reforms; Plenary 2 tackles globalization and health service reforms; and Plenary 3 discusses out migration of health professionals.
Topics for the eight technical sessions include
(1) knowledge management for health;
(2) health care financing and economics;
(3) local health systems development;
(4) hospital systems development;
(5) family and environmental health; and
(6) infectious disease prevention and control;
(7) degenerative disease and healthy lifestyle;
(8) and clinical studies and health technologies.