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Journal of Public Health Policy and Planning | Volume 3
April 08-09, 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland
Health Care and Neuroscience
International Conference on
Role of alternaƟve medicine systems in achieving universal health coverage in India
Sandeep A Chavan
Tata Trusts, India
Alternative systems functional in India are
Ayurveda,Yoga,Unani,SiddhaandHomoeopathy,
collectively referred as AYUSH systems. With total
3,601 AYUSH hospitals in the country, total AYUSH
dispensaries are25,492. Thereare513undergraduate
and 145 postgraduate colleges. The country has
total 7.37 Lakh AYUSH practitioners. There is a huge
potential to utilize this workforce to meet public
healthcare needs of vast population. Although
mainstreaming AYUSH in public health system has
been a national agenda, it yet to get translated on
ground in its true essence. Government has made
provision of co-locating AYUSH doctors at block
and district level public health facilities which has
helped to ensure better coverage of the population.
However, mainstreaming will further need making
AYUSH services available at grassroot level facilities
to make them more accessible for masses. AYUSH
systems need to be integrated in national health
program wherever possible. Standardization of
treatment protocols, quality of education and
research needs to be promoted further. With poor
allopathic doctor: population ratio (1: 11,082 people),
it is essential that AYUSH workforce is streamlined to
mitigate unmet needs of healthcare, especially in
rural and tribal counterparts of the country. These
indigenous medicine systems are cost effective and
offer holistic approach being patient centric and
patient friendly. Additional government patronage
is needed to promote these systems further.
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Fluctuations of resting state networks reflect variations in Cognitive states
Laurens Van Calster
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimaging studies have revealed the
recruitment of a range of neural networks
during the resting state, which might reflect a
variety of cognitive experiences and processes
occurring in an individual'smind. I will present how
the default mode network (DMN) and attentional
networks are associated with distinct mental
states when participants are not performing an
explicit task. To investigate the range of possible
cognitive experiences more directly, I will present
a novel method of resting-state fMRI experience
sampling, informed by a phenomenological
investigation of the fluctuation of mental states
during the resting state. These findings contribute
to our understanding of resting state networks
and may be important to consider for research on
resting state biomarkers.
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