‘Curbs prevented women from getting healthcare’
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48% avoided hospitals: Rajasthan survey
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48% avoided hospitals: Rajasthan survey
About 48% of the women in Rajasthan who needed to visit a health facility during the COVID-19 restrictions avoided going to hospitals for fear of contracting infection. Similarly, 35% of women requiring medical treatment were not able to access health services, according to a Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) survey undertaken in the State.
Over 4,570 households and 575 health facilities were surveyed in collaboration with the State government for three months during the pandemic as part of a study undertaken by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, U.S. The study was also conducted in nine other countries, including Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria.
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Delhi: One of the globally acclaimed universities and renowned research institutions, IIHMR University, Jaipur, has been implementing project PMA in Rajasthan. Performance Monitoring for Action or PMA involves India as one of the program countries out of the other 9 countries which include Ethiopia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project is implemented by IIHMR University, Jaipur in collaboration with Jhpiego, Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with support from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Rajasthan. The project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project has been implemented in co-operation with the State Government of Rajasthan. The core objective of PMA is to collect the data to monitor the Family planning programme and offer data to be utilised by the development partners and the Government as wel
School of Public Health launched in Rajasthan
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It will provide technical support to health systems and help in harnessing new technologies
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It will provide technical support to health systems and help in harnessing new technologies
A new School of Public Health (SPH) has been launched here to make policy intervention for building public health capacity and skills and bridge gaps between education and practices in Rajasthan. The school is expected to play an important role in healthcare management in the post-COVID-19 scenario.
Named after Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) chairperson S.D. Gupta, the school will provide technical support to health systems and render help to the State government in harnessing new technologies.
Rahimi); University of Kinshasa School of Public Health (
Kayembe) Clear and transparent communication is needed throughout the research process to establish relationships and maintain momentum in the project. Consortia, a sub-set of partnerships focused on a participatory approach to conducting research in multi-country settings, work to generate knowledge with the ultimate goal of combatting health disparities. One such endeavour is the Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovations from Polio Eradication (STRIPE) project, which seeks to map, synthesise, and disseminate lessons learned from the global polio eradication effort. STRIPE is a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and 7 academic and research country partners in the global south (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria). The first year of the 5-year project consisted of knowledge mapping activities, which included a scoping revie
‘Establish new epidemiology units at district and block levels’ New epidemiology units must be established at the district and block levels in Rajasthan, with a focus on surveillance and control along with logistic plans for the storage and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, an eminent public health expert said here on Wednesday, adding that the State should also revive health communication structures for alerting people about risks to their well-being.
Daya Krishan Mangal, who served in the Directorate of Health Services and worked with UNFPA’s Indian Country Office, told
The Hindu that the experience of the pandemic had highlighted the need for having trained health workers and epidemiologists at all levels, who would have managed the crisis in a “much better way”.