Campaigns

Feel Something, Do Something

The human body gives early signals, but we often ignore them, and eventually, these minor symptoms become major health issues? At Health Parliament and the International Patients’ Union we are excited to launch a worldwide initiative: “Feel Something, Do Something.” It’s about valuing our health by paying attention to even the tiniest warning signs and taking appropriate action- doing something when one feels something.

Neither Share Nor Learn

In today’s digital age, information spreads fast and can influence our choices, and if the information available online is misleading, it can be harmful and even fatal. Health Parliament recognizes the urgency of addressing this issue. We’re proud to introduce the “Neither Share nor Learn” campaign – a worldwide movement aimed at combating the harmful effects of false information on our well-being.

Women For Digital Health

The initiative “Women for Digital Health” will provide an ecosystem for encouraging women in leadership positions for Digital Health. The shift from manager to senior manager is where women in healthcare experience the biggest decline. The gender distribution of the healthcare workforce shows a definite numerical advantage for men in the physicians and healthcare workforce, whilst women exceed men in the category of nurses. Even though there are more women than men enrolling in the healthcare industry as students, gender parity is still not reflected in leadership positions in healthcare.

Fewer female executives mean fewer female role models for women just beginning their careers. Hence, strong role models and a supportive work environment are crucial to promoting female engagement. We need to address this from an ecosystem perspective, hence this initiative, ‘Women for Digital Health’, which will focus on providing an ecosystem for encouraging women in leadership positions. Digital Health Associates and its various SBUs will focus and invest in encouraging and supporting women to join Digital Health and help move upwards in the hierarchy to take up leadership roles in Digital Health. Given that digital health will become the nervous system of healthcare delivery, women leaders will lead in shaping the future of healthcare.

“Time will not solve the leadership gender gap, but our efforts and actions can.”

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Just On You

Organizations and governments spend billions of dollars promoting healthy habits and spreading awareness through public health campaigns. Yet, these campaigns have not yielded the desired results. Something is missing!

The research studies conducted by Health Parliament reveal the lack of the last mile connect for the campaigns – Disconnect between Right information and Right Action. Over the past two years, we have tried to understand this challenge and created a path-breaking campaign to bridge this divide. Hence the campaign JOY- Just on You. With JOY, we hope to make one person from each household a champion for healthy habits and timely decisions for health; the individual could be a son, daughter, sister, mom, or someone who will nudge the family for healthier choices – The ‘Joy’ of the family.

World Health Communication Week

Medical science has advanced, and for most diseases, we either know how to cure or manage them. Overall, the focus is on providing the treatment. However, we have still not addressed the increasing burden of diseases. More funding or more healthcare coverage has not resulted in better health outcomes because the world has yet to focus on the ‘basics’ of health.

‘Health Communication’ remains one of the biggest challenges across communities and countries. To address this challenge, Health Parliament proposes the ‘World Health Communication Week’ to bring the focus back to basics. We have a doctor’s day, nurses’ day, and several days focusing on diseases, etc. (https://www.who.int/campaigns), but healthcare communication has no day dedicated to it, and without addressing the communication (interaction between the care seeker and care provider), we cannot deliver appropriate healthcare interventions. The Health Parliament invites global stakeholders to celebrate World Health Communication Week in the 1st week of April, concluding with World Health Day (7th April). We should use this opportunity to focus on all aspects of healthcare-related communication and conduct programs and campaigns to address the fundamental issues of ‘interaction’ and ‘information’ for communicating about healthcare.

We hope this global campaign will save millions of lives every year.

Public Task Force For Accountable Healthcare

Health Parliament launched the Public Task Force for Accountable Healthcare on the 2nd anniversary of COVID. We believe healthcare should not be supplier-driven but demand- driven, based on care seekers’ needs. The initiative intends to make healthcare accessible, affordable, accountable and outcome-driven. Join us to drive the change.