About 4th WAC

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About 4th WAC

About 4th World Ayurveda Congress and AROGYA Expo

With the 4th edition of the World Ayurveda Congress and Arogya Expo, scheduled to be convened in Palace Grounds, Bengaluru from 9 to 13 December 2010, we expect to consolidate the momentum of this forum and provide a robust boost to the growing global popularity of Ayurveda and associated fields. With nearly half a million visitors and about 5000 delegates expected to be in attendance this year, the Congress is reinforcing its identity as a global summit that brings together diverse stakeholders of Ayurveda on to a common, meaningful, and popular platform. In the associated expo, Arogya 2010, the spotlight this year will be on traditional and tribal knowledge in health-care systems from India’s rural and tribal communities, with special focus on north-eastern states.

SALIENT FEATURES

Plenary and parallel sessions

Focused skill development workshops
Home theme pavilion
Special focus seminars
Buyer–Seller Meet
International Cooperation Meet
Invited public lectures
Students’ interaction forum
Banquet for international guests
Cultural programmes

Academic Sessions of the Congress

The focal theme of the 4th World Ayurveda Congress is ‘Ayurveda for all’. Accordingly, this year’s Congress is designed to benefit the following target groups/areas.

Vaidyas		Enhancing clinical competence
Teachers		Discovering apt pedagogy
Students		Learning beyond classrooms
Scientists		New ideas, new science
Institutions		Capacity building
Industry		New products, new services
India		Global leadership in health care
World		New hopes, affordable solutions
People		The public health
Medical doctors		As integrative partner
Mental health		Preventive and curative dimensions

The academic sessions of the Congress are structured in such a way that the plenary sessions will take on the evolution of various concepts and the parallel sessions emerging from the plenary topics. The plenary and corresponding parallel sessions will be conducted on the same dates. Listed below are the themes identified for the plenary sessions this year.

1. Ayurveda for All
2. Public Health
3. Ayurveda Research and Education
4. Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
5. Food and Nutrition in Ayurveda
6. Ayurveda Medicine for Animals and Plants

The plenaries will be addressed by the most eminent scientists, academicians, policy makers or Ayurveda practitioners (clinicians).

The 4th WAC shall showcase as to how Ayurveda can provide safe, cost-efficient, and effective health care for all, especially in the following important areas.

• Food and Nutrition (including Water)
• Self Reliance in Primary Health Care
• Mother and Child Care
• Prevention
• Ayurvedic Management of Chronic Lifestyle Diseases
• Veterinary and Plant Medicine
• Ageing
• Ethics and Moral Values

Events

	"Health can be maintained and disease can be prevented. Though technology is advancing, people are still falling sick. Health care costs keep on increasing, and there is no way to reduce that unless you introduce prevention. The best prevention is through Ayur veda, because it is a ver y comprehensive system, since it is based on natural medicine, which is devoid of toxicity."
- Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, Hon’ble former President of India

Sri GHULAM NABI AZAD, Minister of Health & Family Welfare Government of India
	I am happy to know that 4^th World Ayurveda Congress is being organized at Bengaluru from 9^th - 13^th December, 2010. I am told that the World Ayurveda Congress has emerged as the most recognized platform for Ayurveda in the past eight years ............... Read more