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Karambayam Guide Program – The previous year and the year ahead the Logic Model Approach
By Rosemary Stafford The Sugha Vazhvu Guide program, initiated in August 2010, is a critical component of ICTPH’s Rural Micro Health Centre (RMHC) approach to primary care delivery. Given its mission to build a primary healthcare system throughout remote and …
Community Engagement – Self Help Groups and the Women’s Health Interventions
By Vani Priya, Research Analyst – ICTPH and Aarti Sahasranaman, Vice President, Interventions – ICTPH It was while waiting under the dim light of a community center late one evening in Karambayam, wondering how many women would attend our meeting …
Infant Home Fortification through Sprinkles: A Case Study
By A.R. Selva Swetha, Research Analyst – ICTPH The period between 6 and 24 months is a critical stage in a child’s growth and cognitive development, which can be severely hampered by nutritional deficiencies. Iron deficiency anaemia is extremely widespread …
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 …
ICTPH Women's Health Intervention – Targeting Reproductive Health
By Dr. Aarti Sahasranaman, Vice President – Interventions, ICTPH As the primary caregivers within a family, and as members of the formal and informal health sector workforce, women play a pivotal role in providing healthcare. It is therefore somewhat paradoxical …
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 …
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
