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One
of the goals of the Institute of Health Systems (IHS)
is to build local
capacity for generation and use of evidence and
information for healthpolicy to realize the broader
goal of overall socioeconomic development. Usage
of evidence and
information for policy is to predicate on awareness by
general public
and knowledge among the public health community, of
results from health system
and related studies. Towards this end, the IHS has
been striving to provide
opportunity to persons interested in improvement of
the Andhra Pradesh health
system to share and learn from the insights of top
class intellectuals and public
health analysts. The Institute arranges public health
lectures, whenever there
is an opportunity of having the time from reputed
health system researchers and
health policy analysts. The public health lectures are
open to any one interested
in the subject. Admission is free. | |
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People are gradually
recognising the bibliographic niche being cultivated
by the IHS library.
Although the library is small, it has some collections
in the area of
health economics, health system research etc. not
easily available elsewhere in
Hyderabad. As of December 2001, the Institute had 37
associate members, mostly
taken to access the library facility. The library
services about 323 retrievals
per month. The Institute, as a matter of principle,
publishes all its research
and consultancy outputs through working papers,
reports, datasets, or monographs.
These publications are available to public for a
nominal price, to cover
cost of publication. List of IHS publications are
provided in the IHS capacity
statement, which is updated from time to time as well
as through the Institute’s
web site. Publications can be obtained personally from
the Institute’s Front
Office or by writing to the Communications and
Services Officer.
The Institute maintains a database of health care
institutions in Andhra Pradesh,
called the APHIDB. It includes public and private
health care institutions. The
database is accessible to health system researchers
and members of public to facilitate
health system research and public policy debate.
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