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| 3 May 2013 |
| IHP contributes to the National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, 2011-2016 |
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Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon, Senior Fellow represented IHP as a Member of the Drafting Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Sri Lanka National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, 2011-2016. The other drafting committees included the areas of Civil and Political Rights, Prevention of Torture, Labour Rights, Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), Rights of Women, Migrant Workers and Children. The collaborative efforts of these teams were responsible in bringing about the Report titled ‘Sri Lanka: National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, 2011-2016’. |
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 A Cabinet Sub-Committee has been set up to monitor the implementation of the Action Plan. It is being supported by a Monitoring Committee consisting of Senior Government Officials from across the sectors.
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| 3 May 2013 |
| A paper on Reproductive Health and Family planning Programme in Sri Lanka presented |
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Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon, Senior Fellow was invited as a country expert to present a paper on “Reproductive Health and Family Planning Programme in Sri Lanka” at an international seminar on Family Planning in Asia and the Pacific: Successes, Changing Needs and Challenges, jointly sponsored by the International Council on Management of Population Programmes and the UNFPA, held in 2010 in Thailand. His paper is now published in the publication titled “Family Planning in Asia and the Pacific: Addressing the Challenges” which was released in June, 2012. |
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| 21 Apr 2013 |
| IHP presented research findings from two studies at the Private Health Sector Review |
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Two back-to-back presentations on “Situation Analysis of the Private Health Sector” and “Quality of Health Services” were made by Dr. Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Fellow and Executive Director of the IHP at the World Bank organized Private Health Sector Review Discussions held at the Taj Samudra Hotel on 4 April 2013.
The IHP presentation on “Situation Analysis of the Private Health Sector” highlighted that the health sector financing in Sri Lanka has reached an equilibrium, where both public and private sectors accounted for nearly equal share of spending on health. This has been the case since 1990 as per the IHP Sri Lanka Health Accounts Estimates. In 2012 the private sector accounted for 54% of the total health expenditure in the country where as the public sector’s share stood at 46%. The private sector’s contribution came mainly through out-of-pocket spending by people, which amounted to 81%.
During the period 1990 to 2012, according to the IHP Sri Lanka Health Accounts Estimates, private health sector in Sri Lanka recorded a significant increase in relation to the number of hospitals, hospital beds and the high-tech equipment available. However, IHP study has shown that most of this development after 1990 has taken place in the Western Province resulting in more concentration of services and resources in this province compared to other provinces. |
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 The second study on “Quality of Health Services” revealed that the quality of care, as per the selected tracer conditions of quality, was mixed for the inpatient quality indicators. On the whole, performance as expected was similar between both sectors, as the physicians that service both sectors were generally the same.
Dr. Shanti Dalpatadu, Dr. Nilmini Wijemanne, Ms. Janaki Jayanathan, Ms. Sarasi Amarasinghe and Dr. Prasanna Cooray from IHP also attended the event.
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| 19 Apr 2013 |
| Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon presents a paper at the Pension Experts Meeting |
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Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon, Senior Fellow at the IHP participated and presented a paper at the 7th Pension Experts Meeting in Asia/pacific Region held in Seoul, Korea from 20-21 November 2012. The meeting discussed the pension challenges faced by many countries. Examples were drawn from both the OECD and the Asia/Pacific region. |
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 Delegates shared their experiences and provided details of what has happened within their respective countries. Dr. Abeykoon's paper on "The Public Sector Pension Scheme and Population Ageing in Sri Lanka” indicated the need for some adjustments to pension expenditures in the light of population ageing in the future.
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| 19 Jul 2012 |
| IHP shares Sri Lanka's healthcare experience with Johnson and Johnson worldwide |
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A 17 member Executive team from the Johnson and Johnson worldwide visited Sri Lanka on a study tour of the Asia Pacific as a part of an Enterprise Leadership Programme. The visit was hosted by IHP on the 18th July at IHP premises. The purpose of the meeting was to educate the group of executives with strong insights into Sri Lanka’s current healthcare situation and it’s evolution.
The presentations and the discussions followed were based on the following thematic areas:
(i) Healthcare landscape in Sri Lanka its development, current realities and future opportunities and challenges. The key macro-factors (socio-cultural and economic) shaping the way health care has developed and is evolving. The trails blazed by Sri Lanka in setting the agenda for Global Health.
(ii) Health care economics and policy with reference to access, affordability, health equity and development of National Health Accounts. The contribution by IHP to refine methodology for National Health Accounts.
(iii) The role of large companies in facing the challenges: what disease areas are the most concerning and what are the opportunities to address these? |
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 Dr. Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Director and Fellow and Dr. Reggie Perera, Senior Fellow IHP, made presentations at the meeting. Dr. A.T.P.L Abeykoon, Senior Fellow was a participant.
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| 1 Dec 2011 |
| Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon appointed to the Editorial Board of IJMA |
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Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon, Senior Fellow at IHP has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the newly establish International Journal of MCH and AIDS (IJMA). The IJMA is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, clinical studies, evaluation studies, and policy analyses in all areas of maternal, infant, child health, (MCH) and HIV/AIDS in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The journal focuses on the social determinants of health and disease as well as on the disparities in the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases affecting infants, children, women, adults, and families in developing countries. |
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| 1 Nov 2011 |
| Evaluation Mission of the UNESCAP Asia-Pacific Population Journal |
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Dr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon, Senior Fellow is greeted by Dato’ Aminah Rahman, Director General of the National Population and Family Development Board during his visit to Malaysia as part of the Mission as Lead Evaluator of the Asia-Pacific Population Journal which is being published by UNESCAP since 1986. |
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| 2 Oct 2011 |
| Training programme for novel surveillance system for malaria |
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IHP GFATM - Malaria project team was invited as resource persons to deliver a lecture and to share a demonstration on novel surveillance system for Malaria, at the Organization for Proffesional Associations (OPA) auditorium on the 2nd of October, 2011. The workshop was organised by the Independent Medical Practitioners` Association (IMPA) for the private health care sector in the Colombo district. Key participants at the workshop were senior consultants at administrative level in health sector and senior general practitioners in the Colombo district and members of IMPA. IHP was commended on its efforts in developing and introducing such a novel surveillance system for the first time in Sri Lanka. A similar workshop was organised by the IMPA on the 1st of October 2011 in Negambo for the general practitioners in Negambo. |
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| 28 Sep 2011 |
| NGO advocacy meeting for National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) 2011 |
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A civil society meeting was jointly organised by the IHP and the National STD/Aids Control Programme (NSACP) on the 28th of September 2011 at the NSACP. The main objectives of the meeting were to make the civil society members aware of the NASA 2011 and to distribute the NGO IHP Health Expenditure Survey instruments among the NGO representatives. The meeting was attended by NGO’s that deal with HIV and STI related health expenditures. |
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| 28 Aug 2011 |
| Consultative Seminar on Family Policy for Sri Lanka |
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A final consultative meeting on the (draft) Family Policy for Sri Lanka was held on the 26th of August at the Waters Edge with the participation of the Minister of Social Services and key stakeholders including Secretaries to line ministries.
IHP was responsible for the formulation of the policy. In the preparation of this final document, IHP has made a series of consultative discussions with provincial authorities and the national level institutions including selected key line Ministries and Civil Society groups. |
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