Integrating mental health

Integrating mental health

The global burden of disease for mental health problems is substantial, but because of scarce resources that are unequally distributed and inefficiently used, the majority of patients do not receive the care they need, especially in low and middle income countries. A proposed solution for this treatment gap is the integration of mental health into primary health care. Evidence shows that task shifting approaches in which non-specialist health workers are trained to recognize and treat common mental health problems can be effective, but it has not yet been widely adopted in the developing world. Furthermore, little research has been done on the quality of mental health care given in projects where mental health is integrated into primary care institutions and how it can be improved. Ms. Ellis Veen’s research project for her masters degree in Global health from Maastricht University and her internship with IPH is about a case study of quality improvement at the Gumballi primary health care centre in Karnataka, India. The main research question was “What constitutes quality of mental health care at Gumballi PHC, how can it be improved and what lessons can we learn from it for the integration of mental health into primary care in India?”

Speaker

Ellis Veen

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Affiliation

IPH Intern

Date

25-July-2018

Time

11.00 am – 1.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru
#250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross,
Girinagar Ist  Phase,
Bengaluru – 560085

Health Preparedness for Rabies

Health Preparedness for Rabies

Framework for Evaluation of Health System Preparedness for Rabies Prevention. He will also present a few comments from his review of Nepal’s New Health System towards UHC and Health Equity, challenges and opportunities.

Speaker

Nikhil Gokani

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Affiliation

Law and Non-Communicable Diseases Unit Researcher, School of Law and Social Justice University of Liverpool

Date

13-April-2017

Time

3.00 pm – 4.30 pm

Venue

Institute of Public health #250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross, Girinagar Ist  Phase, Bengaluru – 560085
Internship: Sanam Monterio

Internship: Sanam Monterio

Sanam will be presenting what she has produced as well as what she learned concerning tribals in India; namely secondary data tools, mapping of social exclusion theories and summary of the report of the expert committee on tribal health. She will briefly talk about the COPASAH roundtable she attended in New Delhi.

Speaker

Sanam Monterio

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Affiliation

IPH intern

Date

10-April-2018

Time

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Venue

Institute of Public health #250, 2nd C Main, 2nd C Cross, Girinagar Ist  Phase, Bengaluru – 560085
TEDx talk on health equity

TEDx talk on health equity

Prashanth NS, Assistant Director at IPH was recently invited to speak at a TEDx event organised by a school in Hyderabad. Given his research interests on health equity, he chose to build his talk around a foundational element of public health itself: what makes one healthy, is it a matter of chance (for eg. through genes), or by choice (through specific “healthy” behavioural choices, one “chooses”).
The full talk on Youtube is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psq6lnY-PNw
The link to a blog based on the content is here: http://www.daktre.com/2017/12/healthy-by-chance-or-by-choice/
IPH signed with SELCO Foundation

IPH signed with SELCO Foundation

IPH has signed a MoU with SELCO Foundation to evaluate the implementation of their energy-based solution within primary healthcare settings. This is one of the projects under the Health equity & evaluation cluster. After MoU signing, Dr. N Devadasan, Director IPH led an interactive discussion with several students, interns and others in SELCO’s health team at their offices.
Making Cities Socially Inclusive: International Workshop

Making Cities Socially Inclusive: International Workshop

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The Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (University of Leeds) hosted the first International Workshop as part of an initiative at building networks for Socially Inclusive Cities. The workshop saw participation of collaborating institutes from Vietnam (Hanoi University of Public Health), Kenya (Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi), India (Institute of Public Health) as well as other partner organizations from these countries. Upendra Bhojani of Institute of Public Health actively participated in the workshop as well as the project advisory meeting that followed on June 6urban,social inclusion,network