Research Program Consortium on health System Economics & Financing

Agency : John Hopkins University, USA

The Future Health System (FHS) research project in India was initiated by IIHMR in 2006 as a part of a Research Program Consortium led by the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University and in partnership with six other institutions across the world. The primary objective of this project was to prepare a knowledge base on which an appropriate strategy for a more equitable health system would be developed. In India, the FHS research is implemented by IIHMR with the primary focus on the health care delivery system in the Indian part of the Sundarbans. The focus of this research is to generate knowledge on the barriers to delivery and access of health care services for children and find out the ways by which they can be made more effective in the Sundarbans. It tries to understand the multidimensional nature of the crisis in health care access in the Sundarbans to plan effective service delivery mechanism. The generation of knowledge primarily relates to the what, where, and how of an effective service delivery system.

The research is currently in its second phase (2011-16).  During the year (2014-15), several studies were conducted on Rural Medical Practitioners, Innovative public health programmes in the Sundarbans region of West Bengal.  Based on the survey results, a series of research products (briefs, journal article, blogs, etc.) on child health issues and their solutions were published and disseminated. The project is currently in its sixth year.  Two studies were completed in 2014-15. They were: health system innovations in Sundarbans and Social networking of RMPS.  The evidence from these studies will be disseminated to a wide range of stakeholders working for child health through a state level consultation meet in June 2016.


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