Center for Health Politics and Services (CPSS)
Founded in December 1999, the Centre for Health Politics and Services is one of the most active and representative non-governmental organizations.
The Centre for Health Politics and Services (CHPS) was founded in December 1999 as an independent non-governmental foundation.
The programs and activities implemented and developed by CHPS are financed by direct provision of specific services and applying for grants (projects competitively granted).
In these 7 years, CHPS acquired a large experience, representing a competency centre in health and in the social field, the Centre's main areas of interest are:
- the analysis and development of health policies, public health strategies;
- supporting the health system reform;
- health services management;
- drawing up public health strategies and interventions;
- promoting health and changing specific behaviour;
- community development of and the development of disadvantaged groups.
CHPS and its staff or collaborators have an international health experience in European and regional projects (Moldova, Ukraine, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc).
The CHPS has developed programmes in partnership with numerous well-known international and national governmental and non-governmental organisations: World Health Organisation, World Bank, European Commission, Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC), USAID, UNDP, Open Society Institute New York, JSI Research & Training Institute, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS, MATRA, the Ministry of Health, the National Health Insurance House, the College of Romanian Physicians, Medicine and Pharmacy Universities, National School of Public Health and Health Services Management, local authorities, etc.
Within the 6th Round of Global Fund, the CHPS will implement the following projects:
- Implementation of PAL strategy, whose aim is to significantly reduce the tuberculosis in the world until 2015, in accordance with the objectives of MDG (Millennium Goals Development) and STOP TB Partnership. These are foreseen to reduce by 50% the incidence and the number of deaths caused by TB until 2015, related to the registered values in 1990 and eliminating the TB as a public health problem until 2050. Namely, the projects aims to improve the quality if primary medical assistance (AMP/PHC) for treating the patients with respiratory symptoms, which could create the optimal conditions of to track down the new cases of tuberculosis and to improve the quality of diagnosis.
- Mass media involvement in the campaigns of behaviours change (BCC), whose purpose is to increase the community's awareness level on the problems generated by tuberculosis, to fight against stigmatization and discrimination, to sustain the persons who suffer of tuberculosis and to increase the political engagement and the TB resources by encouraging the mass media involvement in the TB issue. This project's objectives are: to draw up a communication action plan, to organize four training sessions for mass media and to support and attend to the celebrating events of the World Tuberculosis Day.
- The operational research in Tuberculosis control in Romania. According to the purpose and objectives of the STOP TB and MDG Strategy, the purpose of this project is to drastically reduce by 50% the tuberculosis at an international level until 2015 in comparison with the values registered in 1990. In order to reach this objective, there will be created conditions of stimulating and promoting the operational research.
- Development of the management capacity of the medical staff of the TB control network, this project aims to strengthen the health services system by developing the human resources from the pneumoftiziology network. There will be taken into consideration the capacities in sanitary management and the communication and relating with patients techniques. The CHPS plans to reach the objective by strengthening nationwide the planning capacity, implementing an monitoring the interventions for TB control, increasing the knowledge level and developing the management attitudes and communication with patients for the medical staff of the pneumoftiziology network.
- Communication for Behaviours Change in TB Control - from national strategy to local interventions. The purpose of this project is to reduce the morbidity and mortality caused by tuberculosis, also limiting the disease and infection transmission. The general objective of this project is to reduce the tuberculosis among poor and vulnerable populations, their families and communities, through information, education and communication interventions oriented to adopting a proper behaviour toward TB prevention and treatment.
- Strengthening the Public-Private Partnership in TB Control, whose purpose is to improve the health services' efficiency and quality provided to the TB patients in the public and private health system, by ensuring the continuity of care provided from the disease identification until the complete cure. Essentially, the general objective of this project is to improve the system of TB identification and support for patients for completing the treatment by strengthening the public-private partnership.
Find more about the CHPS activities and obtained results on www.cpss.ro!
