Month: March 2011
Laying the Primary-care Audit Guidelines for SughaVazhvu Healthcare
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH SughaVazhvu Healthcare is a Thanjavur based not-for-profit organisation. With its vision of “A Disease-free Rural India” and a mission to “Provide Managed Healthcare for Rural Indian Populations”, SughaVazhvu Healthcare is close to the launch ...
Protocolised Patient Management within the ICTPH Health Systems Model
By A.R. Selva Swetha, Research Analyst – ICTPH This is a period of global demographic and developmental transition, which has been witness to significant behaviour and lifestyle changes. The next two decades of epidemiological transition pose a grave challenge, with ...
ICTPH and SughaVazhvu feature in The Economic Times
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH The integrated health systems approach driving our action-research at IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health (ICTPH), in close conjunction with our Thanjavur based partner SughaVazhvu Healthcare recently featured in The Economic Times. The ...
ICTPH anchors Washington University’s Trans-disciplinary Problem Solving Course in Thanjavur, India
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis will be conducting an eight week long summer course for their Master of Public Health Program enrollees here in Thanjavur, India in collaboration with IKP ...
Life of a SughaVazhvu Guide
By Sabyasachi Das, Research Associate – ICTPH The above video gives a snap-shot of how a Population Based Individual Screening Protocol (PISP) is conducted in the field by the SughaVazhu Guides (SVGs), and also throws some light on the life ...
Use of System Dynamics to Investigate the Factors Affecting Patient Flow at the Karambayam Clinic
By Colleen Kinneen “Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static snapshots. It is a set of general principles – distilled over ...
Population-based Individual Screening Protocol (PISP): Reporting Back to Rural Communities for Increased Health Seeking Behaviour
By Sangeetha Lakshmanan, Research Analyst – ICTPH It’s a hot sunny morning in Thanjavur and the ICTPH Guide is packing her bag and getting ready to pedal her cycle to make home visits. One may wonder: where is she going ...
Facilitating Rational Drug Usage – An Illustrative Example
By Manimekalai Pichaivel – Pharmacist, SughaVazhvu Healthcare & Zeena Johar – President, ICTPH “Essential Medicines are those that satisfy the priority health-care needs of the population. They are selected with due regard to disease prevalence, evidence on efficacy, safety and ...
- Field experiences – Optimizing Data collection process with increased accuracy of collected data using field agents from remote field areas
- Literature review – Understanding the patient’s perception about chronic diseases and conditions, Barrier for non-adherence and poor follow-up.
- Broad-Base Primary Healthcare
- Primary Healthcare – The Missing Link for Rural Indian Populations
- Conceptualizing our Bridge Training Program – My Journal
