Year: 2011
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 ...
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 ...
Optical Mark Recognition Technology for Rural Health Data Collection
By Sabyasachi Das, Research Associate – ICTPH Non-communicable and chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in this part of rural India. The observed pattern of death is unlikely to be unique to these villages and provides a new ...
- 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
