Tag: Zeena’s Note
Karambayam – An Empirical Health System Insight
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH In a country like India – where Iron Deficiency Anaemia among children exceeds 70%, the top two causes of pre-mature mortality are CVDs (24.5%) and COPD/Asthma (10.2%) and the highest burden of disease measured ...
ICTPH Health System Approach
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH A health system needs to provide for the requirements of an individual through various stages of life and states of health, offering promotive, health-maintenance, preventive interventions for the entire population and disease management capability ...
The Aravind Eye Care System – An Ophthalmic Mark of Excellence
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.” – Dr. G. Venkataswamy Under the leadership of Dr. G. Venkataswamy, Aravind Eye Hospital was founded in Madurai, Tamil ...
A CBC in just 57 seconds…
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH Evidence based medicine comprises the back-bone of our approach at ICTPH. Working in conjunction with our Thanjavur based partner organization SughaVazhvu Healthcare we envisage to implement our model provisioning healthcare to remote rural populations ...
Launch of Karambayam RMHC
by Dr. Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH The launch of our clinic in Karambayam on Sep 6th, marked one of the finest days in the history of SughaVazhvu. With the second Rural Micro Health Centre (RMHC) on-board, we are now ...
Innovating Equitable Primary Healthcare
by Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH With 75% of medical infrastructure located in urban locations, questions arise on the accessibility of medical resources for rural populations in India which constitute a massive 72% of the overall population. Despite the availability ...
- 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
