The 5th Health Research for Action National Forum Bearing the theme, "Bridging the gap of health inequities through research," the two-day Forum is 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 two plenary sessions and six parallel technical sessions.Plenary 1 highlights statistics for health development while Plenary 2 tackles social health insurance towards universal healthcare coverage.
Topics for the six technical sessions are as follows:
(1) health care financing and economics;
(2) hospital development and health regulation;
(3) infectious disease prevention and control;
(4) family and environmental health;
(5) local health systems development; and
(6) clinical studies and health technologies.