Health Services
Research within this cluster seeks
- To understand challenges in health care organization and delivery of services that are equitable using a systems lens.
- To build an actionable base of innovations and interventions to strengthen an integrated delivery of health care services that
is person-centered at decentralized levels of health care.
PRIORITIES
Strengthening primary health care
IMPACT NCD: Implementation research to strengthen NCDs continuum of care and Multi sectoral action in Chamarajanagar district
Concurrent Monitoring of Midwifery Training Program in Odisha- CMMT
District Gap Assessment-Telangana (DGAT)
Health and Wellness Centre- Innovation Learning Centre
Strengthening Primary Care for NCD's (Kolar District)
Evaluation Of Midwife Training In Telangana (EMTT)
Strengthening NCD care in Tumkur
Urban Health Action Research Project
An Implementation Research in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka (INCARE)
EQUIP-HWCs
System-level Assessment for UP-TSU’s Health Systems Platform
Private sector engagement
Optimising the involvement of Private Practitioners
in Tuberculosis Care
Private Health Sector Involvement in National TB Control Programme: An intervention research, Tumukur District
National Secretariat for TBPPM-LN, India chapter
Access to care
The Access to Medicines Study
Qualitative Research Study on Barriers to Point Of Care Testing in India
Disease control
SPEAK India - Setting the Post-Elimination Agenda for Kala-Azar in India
Updates
IPH, Bengaluru staff participate in the 5th National Conference on Tobacco or Health
Thirteen members of the Chronic Conditions and Public Policies cluster at IPH actively participated in the three-day conference of the 5th National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH). This three-day scientific programme focused on diverse public health issues and challenges in tobacco control at the national and sub-national level along with context-specific solutions for their replication towards achieving tobacco-free environments. There were plenary sessions, panel discussions, symposia, oral presentation, poster discussion, and workshops on many aspects of tobacco control which will pave the way towards building effective policy and program.
Preventing TII in Karnataka
‘Symposium on Applied Research in Tobacco Control and Regional Stakeholder Meeting’ (Virtual) was held on 16th September 2021 in association with the Tobacco Control Capacity Programme and State Tobacco Control Cell, Government of Karnataka. Dr. Upendra Bhojani...
Paper on food laws to ban smokeless tobacco products in India
(BMJ) Tobacco Control recently published a paper by Dr. Upendra Bhojani and Riddhi Dsouza from the DEEP project at the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru. The paper analysed how several states in India used food laws to ban certain smokeless tobacco products...
Anusthana’s protocol paper published in BMJ
Dr. Pragati Hebbar together with Vivek Dsouza, Upendra Bhojani, Onno CP van Schayck, Dr. Giridhara Babu, and Gera Nagelhout co-authored a protocol paper titled “Implementation research for taking tobacco control policies to scale in India: a realist evaluation study...
Evaluation of a school-based tobacco/supari cessation program
Dr. Upendra Bhojani, co-authored a paper in Population Medicine journal, along with Dr. Pragati Hebbar and Amiti Varma from the Chronic Conditions and Public Policies cluster at IPH-Bengaluru. The paper evaluated a school-based tobacco/supari cessation intervention...
Workshop on Preventing TII (Chhattisgarh & Manipur)
In two separate workshops held in December last year, Dr. Upendra Bhojani (Director, IPH-Bengaluru) was invited to serve as a resource person (virtual) on Tobacco Industry Interference (TII). The workshops were held in Chhattisgarh (16th December, 2020) and Manipur...