PHIN – Score

Note: This compilation of key documents, reports, publications, experiments, events and initiatives covers most of the important aspects of Public Health Policy and System Development in India since Independence.

As a staff / faculty member of a school of public health and or NGO / institution / network involved in public health education, research, system development, policy advocacy and community health action, it is necessary to be aware of all these important and historical contributions to India relevant public health.

The list covers ten groups of resources and ten key items in each. Together they form a list of hundred resources that every public health professional or activist in India should be aware of.

You are invited to tick these hundred items and find your PHIN Score (Public Health in India score). You should tick this item only if you feel you can actually share the key features or describe the significance / content of the document / item to another colleague or to your students. Just knowing the name or having heard vaguely about it is not enough.

If you are unable to tick some of the items, click on the item to access the relevant reference. Some references are currently unavailable but will be added in due course.Please note that all the documents/publications that we considered significant for evolving the score were not always available on the internet.

This effort is not to find out whether you have a high or low score but to encourage you to improve your score so that your team members, students, fellows and others will be oriented to India relevant Public Health through your informed writings, reflections, teaching and learning facilitation.

This self assessment score sheet has been tested out on a series of postgraduates in public health, preventive and social medicine, and fellows and NGO staff members from various organizations.

We hope you have enjoyed participating in this small self assessment score sheet that we are releasing to support team / faculty / institutional development in Public Health in India.

The score may be used freely by all crediting SOCHARA and ensuring that we receive information about this use, to continue producing revised and updated scoring instruments. These communications may be sent to cphe@sochara.org or clic@sochara.org

Team CPHE – SOCHARA
(Ravi Narayan, Deepak Kumaraswamy, HRM Swamy, Lalit Narayan, Prashanth NS.)
10/1/2013

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