Category: Field Staff
Financial Sustainability: Ensuring Growth through Evaluation
By Johanne Chu My name is Johanne Chu, currently a sophomore at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. I arrived at ICTPH on February 2, 2012 wanting hands-on experience in health care. While I had no prior experience ...
Rapid Risk Assessment – Field Experiences from Karambayam
By Selva Swetha, Research Analyst – ICTPH It has been an exciting few weeks in Karambayam, where the mobile-phone-based Enrolment-cum-Rapid Risk Assessment exercise conducted by the Sugha Vazhvu Guides is underway. While the Enrolment process itself is something that we’ve, ...
The launch of mobile phone-based rapid risk-profiling of our populations
By Mayank Kedia, Research Associate (Technology Solutions) – ICTPH, and A.R. Selva Swetha, Research Analyst – ICTPH With the Health Systems approach we are aiming to take, which comprises preventive screening, curative, and community and clinic-based intervention components, we at ...
Partnership with Dimagi: Use of CommCare to carry out Rapid Risk Assessment through Health Extension Workers (HEW) in Karambayam
By Deepak Rajanna, Vice President (Infrastructure and Technology) – ICTPH Our field supervisor, Alex, training the Guides at Karambayam in the use of mobile phones to collect Rapid Risk Assessment data. A preventative approach to health invariably needs a sophisticated ...
Much More Than Logistics
By Subhalakshmi Ganguly, AVP – ICTPH How does a non-profit research organisation that is based in an urban city like Chennai hope to provide healthcare services to villages that are over 350 km away? While staff from ICTPH have been ...
- 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
