Special Seminar by Sylvia Estrada-Claudio “A Sharing On: One UP Health Benefits Action Research Towards A Gendered Universal Health Care Sectoral Model Utilizing an Information Technology System”

TITLE: A Sharing On: One UP Health Benefits Action Research Towards A Gendered Universal Health Care Sectoral Model Utilizing an Information Technology System

SPEAKER: Prof. Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, the Chairperson of the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines

DATE and TIME: 15:00-16:30, Wednesday 25 January, 2017
VENUE: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University

MODERATOR: Caroline Hau (CSEAS)

ABSTRACT:
The One UP Health Benefits Action Research aimed to develop an information management system that consolidates health insurance programs and other benefits available to member UP employees, using information communication technology (ICT). The intent was to expand the access of UP employees to available health benefits by developing a software that (1) consolidates available information on health and social benefits data for UP employees; (2) provides for gender-sensitive analysis; and (3) links these benefits list to existing services for increased access.
1. Gather information on health-related benefits UP employees currently enjoy.
2. Develop and establish an efficient, user-friendly, and secure information technology platform/design that will host comprehensive health-related information and benefits of UP employees may be accessed through the Internet.
3. Provide preliminary information on effect of intervention to usage of health-related benefits.
4. Determine the feasibility of scaling-up said online resource to the UP system as a preliminary contribution to health information systems that will support the provision of universal health care.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Sylvia Estrada-Claudio is a doctor of medicine who also holds a PhD in Psychology. She is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines. She was formerly Director of the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies.
She is author 2 books, Rape, Love and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse (UP Press, 2002) and And Then She Laughed: Experiences in Counseling Women (Anvil Press, 2015). She is also a regular columnist for Rappler, the Philippine leading social and news network.
Like most Filipinas, she is known to friends by a nickname, Guy. Guy considers herself an activist and academic because she has spent most of her life working in social movements. She is proudest of being co-founder, and now Chair of the Board of Directors of Likhaan, an organization working with grassroots women on issues of reproductive and sexual health and rights.