5016.0 Poster Session 7: Health Systems

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Poster
This Poster Session explores Health Systems
Session Objectives: * Compare and analyze health information needs and capacity across countries and national, district and community levels of the health system. * List facilities in which urban poor families who are members of PhilHealth obtain health care. * Discuss the effectiveness of community-managed health clinics and their effects on sustainable health networks.

Board 1
Strengthening health systems to meet information needs: A multi-country study
Tara Sullivan, PhD, Nandita Kapadia-Kundu, PhD, Nancy LeMay, MPH, Vanessa Mitchell, MPH, Saori Ohkubo, MPH and Laura Raney, MA
        
Board 2
Evaluation of service access, utilization, and satisfaction with health care services received by families in an urban poor community in the Philippines who are members of the PhilHealth Indigent Program
Kara Abarcar and Irene Anne Jillson, PhD
Board 3
Community-managed Clinics: Empowering the community to improve their access to primary health care services in Bangladesh
Selina Amin, MBBS MPH, Israt Nayer and Luis Tam, MD DrPH
  
Board 4
Effects of socialistic policies on the transformation of the Czech healthcare system following the fall of Communism
Jitka Sammartinova, MPH
Board 5
More inclusive methods in community nutrition
Elizabeth Elliott Cooper, PhD, MPH
Board 6
Factors impacting enrollment in a multi-site international feeding trial
Manolo Mazariegos, MD, Neelofar Sami, MBBS, Edna Imenda, Adrien Lokangaka, MD, Ana Lucía Garcés, MD, MPH, Norman Goco, MHS, Mark Kindem, MS, Linda L. Wright, Marion Koso-Thomas, MD, MPH, Jamie Westcott, MS, Nancy Krebs, MD, MS and Michael Hambidge, MD, ScD
Board 7
Assessing the knowledge and skills of community health workers in a high mortality region of northern Ghana
Francis Yeji, Msc, Jemima A. Frimpong, PhD, MPH, Stephane Helleringer, PhD, James F. Phillips, PhD and J. Koku Awoonor - Williams, MD, MPH

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health

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