Centre for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes
Courses offered by CEHAT
CEHAT runs two courses every year the Health and Human Rights Course and the national Course on Violence against Women and the role of Heathcare Providers.
Health and Human Rights Course
An intensive course exploring linkages between health and human rights and building skills in rights based monitoring and use of international and national instruments, designed for health and human rights activists.This intensive 2 weeks residential course focuses on the relationship between health and human rights. The course identifies and discusses the complex interactions between health and human rights.
Violence Against Women and Role Of Health Care Providers: National Course For Health Professionals
This national level course on violence against women is aimed at health care professionals in order to bridge gap that exists in medical education on the issue of gender-based violence and the role of healthcare providers. The course structure has been developed in collaboration with a core faculty. The methodology followed in the course are largely participatory which includes role plays, debates, presentations by participants, analysis of case studies.
Developing a set of modules for student nurses at Dhule nursing college
As part of the training on Violence Against Women (VAW) the Pehel team is involved in conducted training at Dhule nursing school and medical college. The team has developed modules for the trainings. The modules were designed to include an understanding of concepts as well as application. Concepts such as gender, sex, forms of VAW, patriarchy were discussed on the first day while the second day had the nurses demonstrate their roles in responding to the issue of Domestic Violence through role plays. Two batches of nurses comprising of 30 participants each were trained using a three day module. This module was included in the ASHA training. This is being documented and are advocating for the inclusion of this module in the nursing curriculum.
1. Training at Dilaasa
Training at Dilaasa is aimed mainly to improve the response of hospital staff to women facing domestic violence.The training programmes such as gender sensitization training of the entire staff, are conducted mainly for training of health professional i.e; doctors, nurses, social workers at the hospital in screening women patients reporting for treatment in various department of the hospital.
The training activities are now been expanded to five hospitals across the city of Mumbai. read more...
Training Workshop on the Regulation of the Private Health sector for Medical Practitioners
As part of the current study CEHAT along with The Association of Medical Consultants (AMC), Bombay Nursing Home Owners Association come together to offer awareness workshops on the regulation of the private sector. The main objective of the workshops is to develop an understanding amongst the participants about the minimum standards of care; to create awareness about the Bombay Nursing Home Regulation Act and the other legislation and to initiate a dialogue amongst the participants about the need for self regulation of the private health sector.The first training workshop was at Mumbai. About 19 participants attended the training workshop. In order ensure participation of doctors CEHAT collaborated with the Indian Medical Association(IMA). IMA organises most of its own workshops/meetings for various regions. CEHAT decided to follow the same pattern and conducted regional workshops in Mumbai, Nasik, Nagpur and Aurangabad. About 128 doctors participated in these workshops.
The broad areas covered in the training were laws governing the private health care, accreditation, issues of patient’s rights and others. read more...