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National Conference on
RURAL HEALTH
December 5-7, 2002 PMT,Loni,India

Equity, Equality and Empowerment - Agenda for National Health Policy

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Sub-Themes :

Primary Factors Affecting Rural Health

• Poverty
• Population growth
• Nutrition & Food security
• Education
• Safe drinking water
• Environmental sanitation - housing, waste management, pollution
• Occupational hazards, agricultural accidents
• Globalization, privatization, medical ethics and value systems

Gender bias

• Social issues -women & family, early marriage, traditions & customs
• Women's Reproductive rights
• Sex determination & female infanticide
• Women's empowerment- social, economical, political, spiritual
• Violence & Crime against women
• Women & development
• Women's health & nutrition

Rural Health & Demographic Situation

• Demographic changes
• Epidemiological changes
• Health status of rural & vulnerable peoples (migratory, disabled, and aged)
• Health status of tribal and indigenous people
• Health infrastructure & resources distribution - Rural-Urban interface
• Health care resource utilization (public/private/voluntary)

Rural Health Systems Development

• Reproductive & Child Health
• Adolescent Health
• Health of the Aged
• Health systems for vulnerable sections -tribal, indigenous
• Preventive, curative & rehabilitative health
• Social security and health insurance for rural communities
• Appropriate technology in health
• Tele-health services
• Occupational health services

Sustainable Models of Health promotion in rural areas

• Healthy settings, Healthy villages
• Evolving Partnerships for health care - public, private, voluntary and civil society
• Governance of institutions - Local bodies, State & Central relationships
• Intersectoral collaboration for health promotion
• Indian and alternate systems of medicine
• Investment in Rural Health-public, private & corporate

Medical Education & Research for Rural & Remote Areas

• Innovative & appropriate medical education
• Human resource development for rural health care
• Rural health workforce - recruitment, retention, & training
• Priorities in Rural Health Research
• Research in agricultural medicine
• Advances in Medical technology & Biotechnology

A Symposium on "Rural Health Research Agenda" on 6 December 2002, sponsored Global Forum for Health Research and a CME on "New Trends in Medical Education and Health Care" on 5 December sponsored by MCI, New Delhi, will be held in conjunction with the Conference.

Conference Secretariat Pravara Medical Trust Loni-413736 Dist:Ahmednagar (Maharashtra State) India. Tel: +91-2422-73600 Fax: +91-2422-73413 Email:pmt@pravara.ren.nic.in
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