Health Concern Foundation to deliberate on Affordable Healthcare on 12th April, 2014

Health Concern Foundation(R) will be celebrating the Foundation Day on 12th April, 2014 at Milagres Senate Hall, Mangalore, India.

The Concept note on Affordable Healthcare is :

Background:

Growing cost on hospitalization and medical treatment are the leading reasons for bankruptcy among poor families in India. Healthcare services are also not easily accessible especially in rural areas. Thus there is a dire need to improve affordability and access to healthcare services.

The Think Tank Foundation Day Celebration of Health Concern Foundation on ‘affordable healthcare’ is a platform to engage, ideate and discuss opportunities to provide universal healthcare.  It aims to enable participants to learn from experiences, share success stories and create models & frameworks that will improve coverage and affordable access to healthcare services. The major objective is to review and evolve sustainable models and ideas to improve the sustainable livelihoods of low-income groups and the Indian Middle class.

Focus Area:

1)      Improving access to Health

2)      How to Make Doctors Socially Responsible

3)      How can doctors and Patients influence Drug pricing

4)      Youth engagement in Health reforms

5)      Affordable Medicines and diagnostics

6)      Involvement of Corporates and Private players to build a new Health order.

Expected Outcomes:

1.       To develop a continuous platform and knowledge base for affordable access to healthcare  in India by engaging with key stakeholders representing the government, health care workers, NGOs, manufacturers, researchers and academicians.

2.       The final deliverables are:

o   Evaluate an optimal platform model for continuous interaction between key stakeholders fostering access to healthcare.

o   Identify successful approaches and concepts across industries to improve the affordability of access to healthcare.

o   Build new ideas/concepts and recommendations on how to improve the affordable access to healthcare.

This is an initiative of Health Concern Foundation(R) during its Foundation Day Celebration on 12^th April, 2014. We will form a recommendation through the deliberations that emerge from this effort.