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Provisioning Oral Health and Hygiene Services to Rural Indian Populations – ICTPH’s Integrative Primary Health-care Delivery Model
By Arun Jithendra, Research Analyst – ICTPH Oral health has been one of the neglected areas of public health with dentists primarily involved in treating oral complaints with no specific focus on preventive aspects of oral health. A National Oral ...
ICTPH launches its primary-care Ophthalmic Intervention
By Karthik Tiruvarur, Assistant Vice President – ICTPH The estimated prevalence of blindness in 1990 ranged from 0.08% in children to 4.4% in persons aged over 60 years, with an overall global prevalence of 0.7%. In view of the proportion ...
TB diagnostic innovations: Can India take the lead?
Guest blog post by Dr Madhukar Pai No country has more cases of tuberculosis (TB) than India. Research from India played a critical role in the development of the global strategy to stop TB. Yet, Indian industry and academics have ...
Developing a framework for community based screening, risk profiling and assessing the true diabetes burden in South Indian Rural Populations by linking Casual Plasma Glucose and Body Mass Index
Worldwide the prevalence of diabetes amongst other chronic diseases is increasing. To facilitate diabetes management in a community setting for rural Indian populations, IKP Centre for Technologies in Public health (ICTPH) conducted a baseline survey in 2008-09, leading to the ...
- The launch of mobile phone-based rapid risk-profiling of our populations
- Broad-Base Primary Healthcare
- Rapid Risk Assessment - Field Experiences from Karambayam
- Protocolised Patient Management within the ICTPH Health Systems Model
- Developing a framework for community based screening, risk profiling and assessing the true diabetes burden in South Indian Rural Populations by linking Casual Plasma Glucose and Body Mass Index
