Location Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi
Dates March 7, 2024 (11:00 am) - March 7, 2024 (2:00 pm)
Total Beneficiaries 12
Female Beneficiaries 3

Objective

  • To integrate clinical and non-clinical data sources by combining principles of Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) to enhance population health outcomes across diverse geographic settings.
  • To utilize the PHIK as a tool to assess the burden of chronic diseases and associated risk factors in diverse settings such as urban, urban slums, and rural/tribal settings in India.

Observations

A total of 12 beneficiaries (9 males and 3 females) attended the Swasthya Pahal camp organised on 07th March 2024 at Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi. Out of these twelve beneficiaries, more than three-fourth (n=10) had higher blood pressure than normal. More than one-third of them had high blood sugar than normal (n=5) and three-fourth of them were found to be overweight/obese (n= 9) than normal. Two-third of them were found to be engaged in regular physical activity (n=8).

Additional Comments

  • Beneficiaries found the counselling session very informative and useful, and many of them learned more about their health condition.
  • All the beneficiaries found the Swasthya Pahal initiative to be very helpful.

Number of beneficiaries enrolled in SHINE

SMAART Hub for Informatics enabled Nutrition Education (SHINE) Initiative aims to enhance self-management of chronic non-communicable diseases using multilingual digital HEALTH intervention tailored to enhance their knowledge regarding self-management of disease condition(s), diet, physical activity, healthy lifestyle, home-remedies, medication adherence and stress management. Among twelve beneficiaries, all of them expressed their interest to receive informative messages for diet and lifestyle management and majority of them opted to receive messages on a weekly basis (n= 8) and only four opted for daily basis.

Details of RISE exhibition

RISE stands for Research, Innovation, Skills, and Entrepreneurship. The aim of the RISE initiative is to empower girls and women from urban slums. Women are trained to develop their natural talent, make them employable and self-reliant, and fit in an office environment with a paid stipend. An exhibition of the products: pouches, tiffin bags, masks, and jute bags made by women of the urban slum was organised at Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi.

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Swasthya Pahal ("Health for all"), our community initiative utilizes SMAART™ framework, aims to promote self-management among individuals about diabetes, hypertension, obesity and high cholesterol. Swasthya Pahal utilizes interactive multi-lingual, touch screen computer program that gathers data related to social-demographics, clinical history, and health behaviors. In addition, objective data gathered includes height, weight, blood pressure, and blood sugar. An evidence based decision rule engine then generates a SMAART™ health card for each individual. Based on the individual risk findings, the system provides an individualized lifestyle feedback supported by trained lifestyle counselling experts.

RISE (Research, Innovation, Skills and Entrepreneurship), a collaborative Women Empowerment initiative of FHTS and P.H.RISE, USA, aims to Educate, Employ and Empower women, by providing them skills in research, innovation and entrepreneurship. Under RISE initiative, our aim is to create 500 sustained employment for urban slum girls. We aim to provide platform to urban slum women and girls to not only be independent but also support their families, nurture their dreams, create their own identity and be a source of inspiration to many.

Both the Swasthya Pahal and RISE initiatives, utilize SMAART™ framework conceptualized by Dr. Ashish Joshi presently Senior Associate Dean of CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York and the founder of Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society (FHTS). Know more about his vision at ashishjoshi.me.