Sentence examples for Health councils from inspiring English sources

National health councils or other similar bodies would be an excellent mechanism to pull together the diverse initiatives described above and to keep the public informed.

Community health councils (CHC) visited 68 areas around 22 hospitals and found 33 of them had "unsatisfactory" help for those with hearing loss.

Employing a multi-stakeholder strategy, community members and leaders, health councils, facility providers, NGO managers, and provincial directorates were engaged in a five-phase process to jointly identify structural and service delivery indicators (about 20), score performance and subsequently develop action plans for instituting improvements through participatory research methods.

Like other countries in post-conflict, weak health systems, which are characterized by extreme resource deficiencies, rely on the governance of local authorities and health councils, and hence the CSC needs to be locally adapted to ensure sustainability and legitimacy [ 30].

Since 2005, the Community Based Healthcare Department (CBHC), at the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) has instituted several community engagement strategies to ensure access to health services, including the deployment of over 29,000 community health workers, institution of community health councils and community health supervisors through the NGO contracting mechanisms.

LHB proposals could be referred to the Welsh government if community health councils - the patient watchdogs - object to them.

Like Nova Scotia's Community Health Boards and Saskatchewan's Citizen's Advisory Councils, Alberta legislated the creation of 12 Community Health Councils to provide feedback directly from local Albertans, including patients and their families, about what was working well in the health care system and areas in need of improvement.

However, while the National Health Act describes both the establishment of District Health Councils (section 31) and the incorporation of HCs in every health facility (section 41), it does not explicitly link these two institutions or structure the relations between them [ 25], delegating authority to provincial governments to provide legislation for the functioning and management of HCs.

Health Assistants collaborate with the Community Health Councils to promote and foster the concept of a shared responsibility for health.

Donna Covey, director of the Association of Community Health Councils, said she hoped the report would trigger a debate on the long term future of the health service.

In 1974, Community Health Councils (CHC) were set up.