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Field experiences – Optimizing Data collection process with increased accuracy of collected data using field agents from remote field areas
Primary health care research involves data collection from remote field areas. The field areas can be small isolated ghettos, urban slums, remotely located villages, urban administrative blocks or any other location which involves certain number of households with permanent residents. …
Literature review – Understanding the patient’s perception about chronic diseases and conditions, Barrier for non-adherence and poor follow-up.
Chronic diseases and conditions are the group of diseases which include cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, and cognitive disorders. The Chronic diseases are on rise globally since last decade(1). Of the broad classified Chronic diseases cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes, and cancer …
Broad-Base Primary Healthcare
By Dr. Aarti Sahasranaman and Dr. Zeena Johar 1 For a number of reasons, it seems pretty clear that any durable solution to the challenges of healthcare in India will involve a massive expansion in the infrastructure and personnel engaged …
Primary Healthcare – The Missing Link for Rural Indian Populations
By Dr. Zeena Johar, President – IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health At over 3 million square kilometres, stretching 3,000 kilometres from one tip to another, in both directions, with a population crossing 1.2 billion individuals living in over …
Conceptualizing our Bridge Training Program – My Journal
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH The last two days have been indeed fascinating, as we have been trekking around to better understand the requirements of our Bridge Training Program that we intend to develop along with the School of …
ICTPH and SughaVazhvu Healthcare introduce bar-coded I-cards to streamline disease management
By Nandita Vijay, Bengaluru – Special Correspondent, Pharmabiz.com IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Healthcare (ICTPH) and SughaVazhvu Healthcare have introduced bar-coded identity cards as part of the rural micro health initiatives. This is a web-based patient-physician interaction and supply …
The lack of Primary Health Care
By Dr. Zeena Johar and Dr. Nachiket Mor 1 India has some of the best quaternary and tertiary care in the world and is gradually getting to acquire a name for itself even in the field of “Medical Tourism”. Secondary …
Where are the Doctors? Allopathic doctors in short supply; need for trained practitioners of alternative medicine
By Dr. Arun Jithendra and Dr. Zeena Johar 1 India is a country of 1.2 billion people. One estimate, provided by the World Health Organisation, suggests that on average one physician is required to serve 1,000 people, across all levels …
Tackling a Primary Shortage – States can specify minimum sub-MBBS skills to increase the supply of healthcare providers
By Vineetha Mg, Richa Roy, and Dr. Zeena Johar 1 Medicine is one profession in which qualified personnel will remain central despite all the advances in technology that are taking place. It is generally believed that shortages in this sphere …
Our (Pangea Advisors, Columbia Business School) association with ICTPH
by Claire Jarvis, Marie-Sarah Jouffroy, and Christian Wilson* When we first decided to work on the ICTPH project we knew little about healthcare in India, little about the scope of the project and little about each other. But despite these …