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)
Towards health equity and transformative action on Tribal health (THETA)
Implementation Research Project on Maternal Health
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
Enhancing the role of community
While great gains have been made in both understanding and eradicating disease burdens for indigenous populations, health systems studies
Eleventh webinar in the Equilogues
The Health Equity Cluster at IPH Bengaluru is now the secretariat for the newly launched Health Equity Network India (HENI)
Sharing power with communities
Sharing power with communities in-health research priority setting- As a matter of health and social justice, health research should improve the health
Literature review on adivasi
Anuradha will share her internship experience at IPH, as part of the THETA Project, focusing on available health research on the Adivasi community in India.
Ninth Webinar in the Epilogue Series
Closing the Gap: Health Equity Research Initiative in India of the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology is partnering with the Cluster on Health Equity at the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru to announce the ninth webinar in the Equilogues series.
Theme: Denial of reproductive health rights of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in Chhattisgarh
Speaker: Sulakshana Nandi, State Convener of Public Health Resource Network, Chhattisgarh.
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