Policy perspective - Dr Rajan Khobragade IAS, Principal Secretary (H&FW), Govt.Rajeev Sadanandan IAS (Rtd), Former Additional Chief Secretary H&FW, Govt of Kerala Sujatha Rao IAS (Rtd), Former Secretary Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India Dr Peter A Singer, Special Advisor to the Director General, World Health Organization, Geneva.The webinars would revolve around myriad subjects that help people gain access to quality health services, identify the strength and weakness of the global public health system in the wake of a never-before-seen crisis and guarantee the wellbeing of citizens.īrainstorming sessions on universal health coverage (UHC), rapid health system responses, public health investment, delaying or preventing premature deaths from NCDs, achieving the new agenda of SDGs in the wellbeing of women and children and the progress made so far in elimination of tuberculosis.Ģ021-2030: Challenges in health sector & preparedness Policy makers, public health experts, academicians, frontline warriors and civil society from across the globe join hands to engage in dialogues, facilitate cross learnings and devise future strategies on transforming primary health care, maternal and child health, non-communicable diseases and communicable diseases.
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The Department of Health and Family Welfare is organising a five-day webinar series on ‘Making the SDG a reality.’ At a time when the state is facing higher morbidity due to demographic transition and non-communicable diseases (NCD), especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Kerala’s Aardram Mission aims at achieving the Goal 3 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nevertheless, health concerns about exposures to SVOCs emitted from selected materials warrant some discussion.Kerala, which has been making great strides in comprehensive primary health care, has an impressive array of social development indicatorsĪnd ensures universal access to health care for all citizens. Semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) have been largely excluded from this review because ventilation generally is not an effective way to control SVOC exposures. Though it is an important and related topic, this review does not consider secondary pollutants that result from reactions of ozone and unsaturated organics bound to or emitted from material surfaces. The review focuses on the primary chemical or volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from interior surface materials, furnishings, and some regularly used household products all of these emissions are amenable to ventilation. We review information from the scientific literature and public sources to identify and discuss the databases that provide information on new or low-emission materials and products. This review contributes to the latter approach by summarizing available information on chemical emissions from new residential products and materials. Another way to obtain this information is the bottom-up approach of collecting and evaluating emissions data from construction and interior materials and common household products. Some information can be obtained from recent studies that report measurements of various air contaminants and their concentrations in U.S. These analyses require information on sources of chemical pollutant emissions, ideally including emission rates and the impact of ventilation on emissions. LBNL is currently designing analyses to assess the impact of varying ventilation standards on pollutant concentrations, health risks and energy use. Though nominally intended to ensure acceptable indoor air quality, the standards are not explicitly tied to health risk or pollutant exposure targets. This has lead to the development of standards requiring mechanical ventilation. As building air tightness is improved for energy efficiency, infiltration can be reduced to inadequate levels. Ventilation traditionally was assured to occur via infiltration of outdoor air through cracks and other leakage pathways in the residential building envelope. Ventilation provides outdoor air and in the process removes indoor odors and contaminants including potentially unhealthful chemicals emitted by indoor materials, products and activities. Appropriate and adequate ventilation is a basic element of a healthy home. A specific objective of this program is to develop the scientific basis ? through controlled experiments, monitoring and analysis ? for health risk-based ventilation standards. This report is prepared in the context of a larger program whose mission is to advance understanding of ventilation and indoor air quality in U.S.