WHO 6 buidling blocks of health system

Today I want to share about the 6 building blocks of the effective health system developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is not a new concept but I want to share who are not familiar with it and maybe it can be a forum to stimulate the discussion it in the Cambodia context. I summarize it along with the link for those interested in reading the detail.

They are the followings:

• A good health service delivery with quality and effectiveness
• A well-performing health workforce (sufficient numbers and mix of staff, fairly distributed, competent, responsive and productive)
• A well-functioning health information
• A well-functioning health system to ensures equitable access to essential medical products, vaccines and technologies with quality
• A good health systems financing (for pro poor)
• Governance and leadership ensuring strategic policy frameworks existed and paying attention to system-design, and accountability.

http://www.wpro.who.int/sites/hsd/hsd_framework.htm

My first book published by Lambert academic publishing

Hi colleagues and friends, I just want to share my happy time with you all about my book published by the Lambert Academic Publishing. Here is the link and the editorial reviews about the book.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/3843365563/?tag=bmed-20

Product Description
Cambodia is one of the few countries in the world to achieve the MDG in reversing the spread of HIV, with the prevalence falling from 3% in 1998 to 0.7% in 2008. The decline indicates a high commitment from government and civil society in the fight against HIV. The book highlights the success in multiple interventions and challenges facing over the course of the epidemic. The work is based on different studies conducted over the course of preventive interventions from 2002 to 2005 to investigate the epidemiological context of the epidemic, and how this is related to changes in risk behaviours in the general population and in sub-groups of the population. Results from this work suggest an optimistic future in HIV control and prevention in Cambodia. However, challenges do remain, including the reliable quality of HIV/STI service deliveries, the sustainability of preventive programmes, and the dependency of heavily external funding supports. This book should be useful for students and professionals in public health especially for program planners and researchers, or anyone who may be interested in the development of HIV prevention and control in developing countries.

About the Author
received his MD degree in Cambodia (1994), MPH degree (2001) from the University of Washington, USA, and PhD degree (2009) from the Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway. Currently, he is a Director of Strategic Information Department of Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA) in Cambodia.

Sharing an experience in writing a peer reviewed paper

Starting to write a research paper is always difficult for most of us particularly for writers who are not the English native speakers. Writing the paper needs to be focused, concise and logically order. It is a time consuming with high level of commitment and patience. Generally, a content of the paper consists of Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRAD). However, you can start with whatever part of the paper you feel comfortable to write. From my experience, I always start with the Results. First, you should develop tables and figures from analysis outputs. This will make you easy to further write the rest of the findings. Then you just add few sentences or paragraphs that are not included in the tables. Introduction and Methods, to some extents you already have had developed in your research proposal. Therefore, your task is to modify and revise these parts to fit into your paper. The hardest part is the Discussions. This is where you have to explain what the findings mean and must be guided by your research question. As an outline, you should first summarize your main findings followed by discussing them with references to previous research [1]. A limitation of the study should be discussed such as sampling issue and bias. Finally you should discuss on the program or policy implication based on your results.

Keep in mind that you should feel free to write down whatever you can think of if you do not have any ideas to start with. References must be cited properly. My suggestion is to read few similar published papers to get ideas how other authors structured their papers. The research paper usually goes through several drafts before it is finalized. From my experience, revising a manuscript more than 10 to 15 times with your supervisor and co-authors is common before it is finally submitted to the intended journal.

1. Penerger TV, Hudelson PM. Writing a research article: advice to beginners. Intl J Qual Health Care 2004; 16:191-192

*Next time I will post some useful resources for academic writing. I hope you will find it useful. Please share your ideas and comments.

My home-made noodle

Hello Friends,

These days I come to my blog less often. Still, I try to post something as possible as I can. Today I just want to share with you my fast and easy-made lunch during my stay at Bergen. Does it look tasty?

Do you believe the career test?

I tried the career quiz few weeks ago at the Princeton review website. I found it interesting and fun. You can try what career is suitable for you by going to the site at http://www.princetonreview.com/CareerQuiz.aspx

Do you believe the career test? Below was the result of my test.

My interest color is: Yellow
“People with yellow Interests like job responsibilities that include organizing, systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable and objective. People with yellow Interests enjoy activities that include: ordering, numbering, scheduling, systematizing, preserving, maintaining, measuring, specifying details, and archiving, which often lead to work in research, banking, accounting, systems analysis, tax law, finance, government work, and engineering.”

My usual style is: Yellow
“People with yellow styles perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is orderly and planned to meet a known schedule. They prefer to work where things get done with a minimum of interpretation and unexpected change. People with a yellow style tend to be orderly, cautious, structured, loyal, systematic, solitary, methodical, and organized, and usually thrive in a research-oriented, predictable, established, controlled, measurable, orderly environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.”

I am back to my web again!

It has really been so long the last time I wrote something in my blogger. Today I feel that I have to edit my web and write something after a long silence. Few postings are removed to make this web cleaner.

Hello friends, these days I am still working on my dissertation. It is more than half way through. It means that I am closer to the end of the journey of "Thousand miles of journey start from the first step". I Will come back again soon.

A long break at home!

Hi friends and colleagues! I don't know how to restart my blog after a long break without a single touch to it. It has been about 3 months since I left Norway! At home, many things are around me both from workplace, from school, from personal business at home, family...all these things make me busy leaving me no good space to get back to my favorite web blog.

I feel relax today in the office to go through some of my friends'blog and then think of my own blog. It is a time that I should write something for it. Now I am half way through my holiday as well as my fieldwork at home in Phnom Penh. I willl have a trip to Totonto AIDS Coference soon in mid August as part of my academic requierment before heading to my school again in October. Life is like this!