What's New in PCCH 2015?

 

Accountable and responsive health education not only provides students with a broader understanding of determinants of health and health care delivery; it also allows the students to realize and imbibe their present and future roles in improving the current healthcare system -- to be social catalysts in transforming health and community, to be the prime activists in serving the underserved, to be socially relevant and responsible innovators in the quest to attain health for all.



       In spite of the myriad health-based programs and projects initiated by various institutions and organizations, the current state of the Philippine healthcare system still leaves almost two-thirds of the population without access to quality healthcare service or education. It is thus crucial for students to realize the strengths and challenges in improving the state of Philippine healthcare imposed by the diverse geographic and cultural contexts found in our archipelago, and thus understand how this diversity both aids and hampers both the reception and the delivery of health services and, armed with this greater perspective, to become pro-active in discovering avenues and creating solutions for its development.

 

        The Regionalization Students Organization (RSO) will hold the fourth annual Philippine Conference on Community Health (PCCH) with the theme: “Bañuhay" (Bagong Anyo ng Buhay): Discovering Health Care Innovations for the Filipino People”.

 

        Having introduced the health care system and the roles in community medicine in the previous initiatives of PCCH, this year’s PCCH aims for students to be proactive, to be skilled, and to be contributors in the transformation of healthcare NOW.