Recent advances in Mobile Diagnostics: By Hardik Panchal
The term Medical Devices, as defined in the Food and Drugs Act, covers a wide range of health or medical instruments used in the treatment, mitigation, diagnosis or prevention of a disease or abnormal physical condition. Medical devices are useful for easy diagnostics...
Dr. Devadasan in Nagaland to orient the Government on Health Financing (10-08-2015 to 14-08-2015)
Community Volunteers/Health workers – contribution in improving health services: By Jatinder Chhatwal
As we all know and recognise that community health workers (CHW) are the part of the community and have a significant role to play for our health improvement. There is plenty of scientific evidence wherein community involvement has increased the reach and impact of...
Health Promotion- Rethinking Our Disease Control Strategy: By Janelle de Sa
Health has long been defined as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity ’. This clearly implies the need for promoting ‘holistic’ well-being and comprehensive healthcare that enables people to...
Road Traffic Injuries-An Ignored Public Health Issue in India
(Photo Credits- Biswarup Ganguly) The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.24 million road traffic deaths occur every year globally. Of those, the majority (80%) of deaths occur only in middle income countries.Road traffic injuries are never considered a...
Health Financing – A snapshot of the ePHM course classroom
The institute has been providing an online platform for learning for the past two years. We introduced the online course on public health management for professionals and beginners across the country to gain an understanding of how to be good public health...
How can researchers meet community needs?
This article originally appeared on BMJ Blogs on April 24, 2015 under the same title. This blog is my reflection on regular field visits as part of the urban health action research project that I am currently working on. The field site for the project is a very poor...
Institute of Public Health at KEYSTONE
KEYSTONE is a collective initiative of several Indian health policy and systems research (HPSR) organizations to strengthen and build national capacity in HPSR. KEYSTONE was convened by the Public Health Foundation of India as Nodal Institute for the Alliance for...
IPH faculty at Joint Monitoring Mission for Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme
The World Health Organization , Government of India (GoI) and other technical and donor partners undertook a Joint Monitoring Mission (JMM) to review the India’s Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) from 10-23 April 2015. The last JMM was undertaken in August...
Tobacco control in India—more needs to be done to promote smoking cessation in India
This article originally appeared on BMJ Blogs on April 24, 2015 under the same title. Tobacco use is one of the single largest preventable causes of death and a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases. The burden of tobacco related illnesses prompted the...
Corporate social responsibility in India
This article originally appeared on BMJ Blogs on May 09, 2014 under the same title. India’s new Companies Act with its rules mandating corporate social responsibility (CSR) came into effect on 1 April 2014. The objective of CSR is for businesses to exist as...
Re-imagining the response to non-communicable diseases in India
This article originally appeared on BMJ Blogs on December 30, 2014 under the same title. It was just another day at the primary health centre (PHC) that I work closely with in the south Indian state of Karnataka. I was in the pharmacy of the PHC, discussing the...
“Anything you get for free is not of good quality”: perceptions of generic medicines
This article originally appeared on BMJ Blogs on March 06, 2015 under the same title. The number of people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in India is increasing with each passing year. The World Health Organization estimates that NCDs could account for nearly...
Status of AYUSH doctors in the government healthcare delivery system in India
This article originally appeared on BMJ Blogs on February 26, 2015 under the same title. AYUSH—an acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy—is a system of medicine that has been integrated into the Indian national healthcare delivery system to...
N. Devadasan on the Core Group to redesign the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
Dr. N. Devadasan, Director and Faculty of IPH has been nominated to the MoHFW's Core Group to redesign the RSBY.
IPH Faculty among those selected in a global WHO-TDR grant
IPH has been working with Tumkur district in trying to strengthen various components of the district health system. One of the key interventions here has been to work with private practitioners in the district to better understand their integration into the National...
Presentations at 3rd National conference on tobacco or Health Mumbai
Few members from the tobacco control team participated in the 3rd National conference on tobacco or Health held at Mumbai on the 15th and 16th of December. We had three oral presentation and one poster presentation depicting the on going activities and learning from...
Technical assistance to MEMISA and the WBVHA in Darjeeling district
“If I buy medicine, then I can’t afford to pay my children’s fees”: Story of a diabetes patient from rural India
It was one of my routine visits to a PHC in rural Karnataka where I facilitate the patient counseling sessions for people with diabetes and hypertension. This PHC is 45km from the district head quarters and covers about 18,000 people. It was a busy day and the...
Laboratory Technicians Training
As part of Dr.Vijayashree's PhD( Public Private Partnership in TB Care, Tumkur District), all the lab technicians working in the Designated Microscopic Centres of Tumkur district were trained (11.12.14) at District TB Centre, Tumkur city. They were trained on the...
My Monday musings of being a “Generic”!
Author: Dr Mrunalini I am pretty well known in the country and constantly have a presence in news making headlines against the multibillion Pharmaceutical industries. I still struggle on a daily basis convincing people that I’m as good as the BIG BRANDS, and to...
Private healthcare providers threatened by the Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme
There have been some recent newspaper reports that networks of private hospital owners have threatened to stop providing services to patients if the government of Karnataka expands the Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme (VAS) from the poor to the rest of the population. We...
Eventually, it was loss to the community
This is a story about a Primary Health Center (PHC) and a lady doctor. An ordinary centre in the way so many of our health centers in remote parts of the country are. This unremarkable PHC is located 52 km away from the district head quarters (HQ) and 36 km away from...
Can we count on our counting systems?
A shorter version of this article appeared on BMJ Blogs on October 31, 2013 under the same title. Co-written with Himabindu G L of IPH, Bangalore. Much of the material remains unprocessed, or, if processed, unanalysed, or, if analysed, not read, or, if read, not used...
Juliet: We met, we supported and we lost…….& witnessed family getting dismantled?
This is not the first time we are writing about Juliet….but this will be the last blog we can write for her. A Call from the team member took me back to memory lane… When we first time met young Juliet (name changed) she was pregnant with severe anaemia and reluctant...
Is embracing death @ 24 so easy?
This time it was neither KG Halli nor urban health project….but Health Inc…trying to find reasons for social exclusion in Bangalore Rural district. When we entered 8x8 single room house, Jagadish was lying on the bed. We asked how he was feeling, he pushed bed sheet...
Good presentation is very important
“Good presentation is very important and I apply this concept”. This is said by one laboratory technician working in a Primary Health Center (PHC). He believes that if he provides his laboratory services in a presentable way, he can earn the trust of the people....
Is health camp an effective stratergy
Health 'camps' are one of the strategies adopted by both government and non-government organizations. This literally means that a team of health professionals 'camp' in an area to carry out a limited health intervention. For instance, government organizes...
What the numbers do not account for…..night beat in KG Halli
Life has its unique ways of showing you what you might be looking for. As a purely logistic decision, it made more sense for me to stay overnight in the community centre and this gave opportunity to observe a different side to KGHalli....after dusk. Suddenly “urban”...
Where Do I Begin (part-2)
Where Do I Begin.............. to tell the stories of urban polity ... the enduring tales of life as it is least meant to be ..... in a just fair world......? (To be sung to theme tune of Love Story) Did you read the where do I begin part-1 ?(click here) In the...
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