Month: February 2011
Mapping Rural Health Systems using GIS
By Ravikumar Chockalingam – Advisor and Consultant, ICTPH Geographic Information System and spatial analysis have been on vogue for much longer than one can presume. Although they were intended to be used for defence and military purposes post the cold ...
Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) in the ICTPH Health Systems Model – A Technical Note
By Deepak Rajanna, VP – ICTPH IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health (ICTPH) is piloting a nurse-managed, physician-supervised, technology-enabled, comprehensive primary health care delivery model in rural Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu with equal focus on developing Human Resources, Health ...
ICTPH and SughaVazhvu RMHC Model Profiled on NextBillion.Net Blog
By Subhalakshmi Ganguly, AVP – ICTPH Approximately four billion people have annual incomes of less than $3000 (see analysis from the World Resources Institute). These individuals constitute what is called the BoP, an acronym for the “Base of the (economic) ...
Population based – Individual Screening Protocol for Rural Indian Populations
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH The WHO Health Systems framework (WHO, 2007) defines six components of a Health System – service delivery; health workforce; information; medical products, vaccines & technologies; financing; leadership and governance. Within this framework, the evolving ...