Organization of Primary Health Care Services for Diabetes and Hypertension: A qualitative study of public and private, patient and provider perspectives in Rural India
Dorothy Lall Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru 9 June 2017 3:00 - 4:30 PM Institute of Public health #250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross, Girinagar Ist Phase, Bengaluru – 560085 Dorothy Lall will be presenting the findings of the first phase of research that is part of...
World No Tobacco Day 2017
The Consortium for Tobacco Free Karnataka (a group of individuals and organizations working towards tobacco free Karnataka) in collaboration with the state (Karnataka State Anti Tobacco Cell) and municipal (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike) governments organized...
Socially Inclusive Cities
On May 26 (2017), the Institute of Public Health (Bengaluru) organized a workshop on making cities socially inclusive. This was the first in a series of workshops on this theme aimed at building a network of stakeholders (researchers, academicians, practitioners, and...
South Asia Tobacco Control Leadership Program
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Government of Nepal), The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union) and Action Nepal organized a South Asia Tobacco Control Leadership...
NCD’s in India: Using a vertical analysis tool to map out the problem
This will be an interactive group discussion session led by N Devadasan with the support of Dorothy Lall. We shall identify key issues about NCDs in India from a health systems perspective (not a bio medical perspective). The purpose of the discussion shall be to...
How Training as Community Health Workers Helped These 6 Women Fight Domestic Abuse and Neglect
Health workers—who are they, and can anybody become health worker? During this World Health Workers Week (April 2 – 8, 2017), Thriveni S. Beerenahally shares some of her experiences, training wonderful women to be community health workers. Our work in...
India’s recent reformation in public health education: is it targeting the right people?
Diljith Kannan and Dr Upendra Bhojani faculties at Institute of Public Health, paper titled ” India's recent reformation in public health education: is it targeting the right people? “ published in “RGUHS National Journal of Public Health”. This paper briefly...
Voiceless but not speechless
TBI Blogs: This Small-Scale Farmer Bravely Fought Cancer and Is Now Helping Others Fight Tobacco Addiction Meet Durgaiah, a farmer and a cancer survivor who not only won the battle against throat cancer, but is now using his second chance at life to train, counsel,...
TBI Blogs: This 70-Year-Old Lost Her Voice Box to Throat Cancer, but Continues to Inspire Hundreds
Meet Nalini Satyanarayan, a 70-year-old cancer survivor who is now championing the cause of cancer prevention. Diagnosed with vocal chord cancer in early 2010, Nalini Satyanarayan underwent a surgery successfully in April 2010 and took radiation therapy subsequently....
Gender in Global Health
Manoj Kumar, staff at IPH published an article in International Health Policies I write this blog based on reflections from a global health conference I attended recently, but the issue of gender (in)equality has also been weighing on my mind for some...
Manoj Kumar, staff at IPH published an article in International Health Policies
India and the world in 2016: a challenging present, an uncertain future Google’s “See what the world searched for in 2016” says it all: how has the year 2016 been so far for all of us? Four out of five of the top most trending global news searches relate to disasters...
HSG Speaks: Interview with Wim Van Damme by Manoj Kumar Pati
The ev4gh is an innovative multi-partner blended training program for young, promising and emerging health policy & systems researchers, decision makers and other health system professionals. This program gives an ideal platform...
Manoj Kumar Pati, staff at IPH published blogs on organised session – HSR2016
Manoj Kumar Pati is a public health researcher at the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru. He has a masters in public health (MPH) in health system management. His research interests are implementation research, equity research, epidemiology and...
The Soliga Story
The Soliga people of southern India continue to live within and around forest areas. Their history, tradition, and culture are deeply rooted within the forests in which they live. In an increasingly globalised world, their ways and means slowly erode as they...
The art of data collection in health system research
The art of data collection in health system research: Lessons learned from the field. Data collection is the most important aspect any research endeavour. Poor quality of the data will have impact on the results of the research study.Therefore it is vital for the...
What I learnt from my first health system research project
Dr Praveenkumar Aivalli blog titled, ” What I learnt from my first health system research project ” published in BioMed Central Starting my first research project Back in 2013, I just stepped out of my university after getting my Master of Public Health degree,...
Implementation of India’s national health insurance scheme: experience from the field
Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) is a health insurance scheme, implemented by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India. The objective of this scheme is to provide protection to families below poverty line (BPL), against illnesses which involve...
Exploring peer learning methods in online environment
Application of the peer learning principles in the field of education has a long history. Lot of research has been done by psychologists, sociologists and educators on this and results have been positive. Peer learning has been seen as an effective methodology...
How can Jharkhand improve its maternal mortality rates?
Maternal death is defined as “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from...
Moving towards inclusive healthcare for migrants in India
According to the 2011 census, approximately 400m of India’s 1.21bn population are “internal migrants.” These migrant communities in Indian cities constitute a large proportion of people living in urban slums. Some of them have migrated from rural to urban...
The unaffordability of cancer treatment in India
It was estimated that nearly one million new cases of cancers will have been diagnosed in India by 2015, of which 0.67 million people are expected to die of conditions related to cancer. Cancer of the mouth and lungs in men, and cervix and breast cancer in...
Would India be prepared if there was another swine flu outbreak?
The swine flu epidemic caused by a new strain of the influenza A (H1N1) virus became a public health problem in India in 2014 for the second time in the last decade. In 2009, it was categorised as a pandemic by the Indian government and all public health centres were...
A lack of resources for community health nursing in India
Shortage of nurses and its impact on the Indian health care delivery system remains a major concern to this day. Adding to the above problem there is an undersupply of competent public health nurses who are willing to serve in the resource-limited community health...
Individual Reflection Internship at Institute of Public Health: By Lotte Boonen
The honours programme of Maastricht University has a cooperation with the Institute of Public Health(IPH) in India. We, a group of 9 students, are doing a research for the Institute of Public Health about the human resources for health in India. We were invited by IPH...
Individual feedback- Thoughts about our field visits and the health system in India: By Lion Lehmann
In the time span from the 17th of August to the 28th August, we had the chance to see some of the institutions of the Indian health system and talk to some of the important stakeholders. In the subsequent informal report, I will review my experiences. The report will...
Individual reflection internship IPH: By Esther Boudewijns
Although we are already back in the Netherlands for one and a half week, I am still not totally used to it: Dutch food, no honking on the road and a lot of rain instead of the Indian sun. When people ask what the most impressive thing I have done was, it is difficult...
IPH staff attend a regional course on Good Health Research Practice
Dr. Arun Jithendra, Dr. Praveen Aivalli and Dr. Samantha Lobbo, attended a four day regional course on Good Health Research Practice (GHRP) by the Regional Training Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia from July 27th - 30th, 2015. The regional course...
Managing Hypertension and Diabetes in Resource Poor Settings:- By Bheemaray V M
According to the Diabetes Atlas 2006, the number of people with diabetes in India is currently around 40.9 million and is expected to rise to 69.9 million by 2025. Similarly, 118 million people were estimated to have high blood pressure in the year 2000, which is...
Internship at the Institute of Public Health, Bangalore: By Hanna Schenck
During my summer of the year 2015, I had the great opportunity to visit the Institute of Public Health in Bangalore and to explore the Indian health system during a few days. During the first half of my internship, I was confronted with the great complexity of the...
ART centres in Uttarakhand: Some reflections from the field: By Supriya Chand
One of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to control the spread of HIV/AIDS. This puts a continuing concern on improving health services. Many projects are run by the government to address these concerns effectually. One such program is operation of...