Health Equity
While health status of the Indian population has improved steadily over the last few decades, there has been a worrying stagnation or decline in health in some geographies, populations especially across socio-economic status, caste, gender and/or other vulnerabilities. We take up research and action to improve the understanding on the drivers of health inequities in India.
PRIORITIES
Tribal Health
Health Equity Network India
Onehealth
Mental Health in Primary Health Care
Tribal Health
Tribal health – Over 8.6% of India’s population is constituted of tribal communities. They have poor access to healthcare as well as poor population health outcomes like maternal and child mortality and morbidity, communicable disease prevalence and nutrition. Among the social determinants of tribal health, geographical remoteness, proximity to forest areas, cultural distance from the “mainstream” population, historical isolation and social stratification have all been postulated to have a significant effect on their health outcome. The health equity cluster works with forest dwelling tribal communities (also known as Adivasis, indigenous communities), on improving their access to healthcare services.
Centre for Training, Research, and Innovation in Tribal Health (CTRITH)
Building Inclusive participatory health Governance for tribal health in India (BIG)
Towards health equity and transformative action on Tribal health (THETA)
Implementation Research Project on Maternal Health
FIRST-MILE
AdEquAte
Population-based haemoglobinopathies registry (PHR) in Southern Karnataka: Implementation research (CTRITH WP-3)
Realist and Implementation Research Action Lab [Hosa Jeevana/One all(CTRITH WP-1)]
CHIGURU Adivasi Birth Cohort Study (CTRITH WP-2)
Health Equity Network India
The network brings together individuals and institutions interested in advancing health equity through research, advocacy and action. The network was an outcome of the “Closing the gap: Health equity research initiative in India” by the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum. The health equity cluster is the national secretariat for the network.
Onehealth
Achieving equitable health involves action not only on various aspects of human health, but also acknowledging and ensuring cross-sectoral action and inclusive inter-disciplinary engagement across public health, animal health and environmental health professions and disciplines. In view of its work in forested areas, the health equity cluster focuses on health systems strengthening components in OneHealth initiatives.
Planetary Health Information Center, Pakke Tiger Reserve
Assessing Local Health System Preparedness for Rabies
MRC-KFD project
Mental Health in Primary Health Care
There is no health without mental health. It is impossible to conceive an idea of health without ensuring and realising mental health. Yet, this is among the most neglected of health problems in terms of access to care for mental health conditions in our country. The health equity cluster focuses on research and action for strengthening mental health in primary health care.
Mental Health Action Plan
Updates
GreenHub Dialogues on COVID-19, OneHealth and health inequities with Dr. Prashanth N Srinivas
Dr. Prashanth N Srinivas Faculty and DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance fellow at the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru, participated in the GreenHub Dialogues series of webinar focusing on COVID-19.
The conversation is moderated by Shibani Chaudhury of GreenHub. Prashanth reflects on the wider systemic issues that is shaping the COVID-19 response particularly drawing from the OneHealth, social determinants of health and health inequities in India. The dialogues are expected to make us question our choices; rethink our responses; recalibrate ideas of equity, sustainability and health. And crucially, remind ourselves that humans are a subset of nature, not vice versa. He also talks about the preparedness of the community during the COVID-19 disaster (See IPH’s COVID-19 response and our efforts to improve PHC preparedness here- https://iphindia.org/iph-contributing-to-fight-covid-19/
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Film Screening: Health in All and the Tribal Population in South India
The IPH Knowledge Management Committee invites you to attend the screening of "Health in All and the Tribal Population in South India." directed by professional filmmaker Lode Desmet. The film was made along with public health researchers at IPH, Bangalore and ITM,...
THETA team @ TRIBECON
THETA team at TRIBECON conference
Congratulations to our (THETA) team from health equity cluster for their upcoming presentations at TRIBECON
Gender Inequities
Gender Inequities in publicly funded health insurance schemes by Rajalakshmi RamPrakash- Rajalakshmi RamPrakash is a researcher and a social.
health research priority-setting
Health research priority-setting: Engaging communities in health research priority-setting is a key means of setting research topics