13th IEA SEA Meeting and ICPH - SDev

2 - 5 October 2018

Prime Plaza Hotel Sanur

Bali, Indonesia

RATIONALE

Some targets to solve public health problems has been included in global development agenda. MDGs urged the countries to achieve several measurable targets on addressing the problems of infectious diseases, NCDs and poverty by 2015. However, until the end of 2015, the targets were unsuccessfully achieved by majority of developing countries worldwide. Post 2015 agenda, a global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was launched in the United Nations Conference guiding a sustainable development worldwide. Some indicators in addressing infectious diseases, NCDs and other health problems including universal health coverage were set again to be achieved by the countries in 2030.

Reflecting from the failure of the countries achieving the desired indicators of MDGs, the governments should move to develop and implement effective health programs called evidence-based health policy. It uses scientific research as the basis of developing health policy and program planning to improve health outcomes and performance as well as allowing the efficient use of resources. Evidence-based health policy is crucial in South East Asian countries and other countries with limited resource setting. Therefore, epidemiologists in these countries need place for knowledge sharing to improve their capacity in achieving health development agenda in their respective countries.

The International Epidemiological Association (IEA) has more than 1000 members in over 100 different countries who follow the aims of the Association to facilitate communication amongst those engaged in research and teaching of epidemiology throughout the world, and to encourage its use in all fields of health including social, community and preventative medicine. These aims are achieved by holding scientific meetings and seminars, by publication of journals, reports, monographs, translations of books, by contact amongst members and by other activities consistent with these aims. In this year, IEA Southeast Asia Regional Scientific Meeting which will be held with International Conference on Public Health and Sustainable Development, focuses on enhancing the countries to develop an evidence-based health policy for SDGs achievement.

OBJECTIVE

The conference aims to overview what epidemiologists and public health professionals can do to enhance the implementation of evidence-based health policy for SDGs achievement. The conference will be a forum for epidemiologists, public health professionals and public health policy makers in sharing their knowledge and expertise and contributing to the achievement of SDGs, particularly in their respective countries and Southeast Asia Region in general.

THE CONFERENCE

IEA Southeast Asia Regional Scientific Meeting will be jointed with International Conference on Public Health and Sustainable Development, organized by the Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University and IEA. The main theme of the conference is Enhancing Evidence-based Health Policy for SDGs Achievement. The main theme is discussed in four two-hours-plenary:

• Plenary 1: Public health achievement: where we are now?
• Plenary 2: Global challenges for good health and well-being
• Plenary 3: Evidence-based approach: epidemiological value in advancing public health policy
• Special symposium arranged by IEA

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PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATION

All abstracts presented in the conference are published as proceedings in BMC Public Health Journal, no additional charge is required. The presenters of the conference are also invited to publish their papers as supplement in one of these journals: BMC Public Health Journal (Scopus-Q1 Indexed), Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine (Scopus-Q4 Indexed), or Andalas Journal of Public Health/ JKMA (DOAJ Indexed) with additional charge.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

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• Please send any queries regarding registration and payment to ieasea13@ph.unand.ac.id or ieasea13@gmail.com

Andalas International Public Health Conference

6 -7 September 2017

Padang, Indonesia

Background

Since 2014, the Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University has been successfully hosted two national public health conference. To improve these achievements, the Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University will host the first international public health conference in 2017. This conference is in line with the vision of Andalas University as one of the oldest universities in Indonesia and the vision of the Faculty of Public Health, to be one of the global centers of research and education, particularly in public health science. In this conference, the Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University would like to embrace the other public health institutions to contribute together towards human well-being through research, publications, capacity building and advocacy.

Rationale

Reflecting from the fail of the countries achieving the desired indicators of MDGs, the governments should move to another point of view on solving public health issues despite of several focuses only on providing curative care and protect the people financially towards curative health services. Where are health promotion and disease prevention functions nowadays? Health promotion and disease prevention are important investments to reduce country’s expenditures on curative care especially for new-emerging diseases and NCDs treatment that requires long-term and expensive treatments. Particularly for developing countries where more than half of global prevalence of NCDs occur, effective health promotion and disease prevention safe their health budget and assure the sustainable health financing. Finally, enhancing health promotion and disease prevention measures means the people will leave in healthy manner and healthy environment and will back to such environment once they recover from an illness.

Objective

The conference aims to overview the existing health promotion and disease prevention programs and proposing some improvements to accelerate the achievement of health development agenda of SDGs.

Theme

The main theme of Andalas International Public Health Conference 2017 is Improving Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Strategies for Health Development Agenda of SDGs.

Sub-themes

Topics of panel discussions fall under three sub-themes:

1. Effectiveness and Efficiency of Health Promotion and Prevention Initiatives in Managing NCDs
2. Role of Health Financing Program in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
3. Linking Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to SDGs

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