Why urban health
India is witnessing a volatile growth in the population living in urban areas. It is estimated that nearly 30% of India’s population lives in cities and town. The growth of cities has always been accompanied by growth of slums.
Unlike rural areas which have a Govt. health care structure, urban areas do not have such structure. The rapid expansion of urban population in recent decades has rendered the already inadequate primary health care facilities further deficient.
The issue of primary health care for urban poor requires immediate attention, thus CDC strives to work in urban health issues to provide sustainable improvement in accessibility to quality health care services to unreached and underserved communities.
What we do
Urban Health Goal - to enhance health care accessibility, awareness and health seeking behavior among underprivileged masses.
Our initiatives - Mobile Health Clinic
Project Goal -
Make basic health services available and accessible to unreached and underprivileged communities with sustainable approach.
Operational areas -
Kacchi Bastis of Shastri Nagar
Expected outcomes
- Comprehensive health care out reach
- Strong linkages, follow up and referral system
- Enhancing community participation with events like street plays, audio-visual shows etc
- Providing cost-effective quality services by skilled professionals
- Improvement in health seeking behaviour
- Increasing Awareness generation on preventive methods
- Increasing immunization rates
- Increase in early diagnosis and treatment
- Increasing linkages with larger health system
- Providing women and children friendly services with well trained professionals
- Addressing needs of RH health of women and adolescence
Community health resource centre
Goal –
Reduce health inequalities in urban areas by strengthening health care accessibility through holistic approach that is preventive, promotive and curative primary health care.
Programmes
School based programmes
- School health check up programmes
- Counselling
- Nutrition sessions
- Personal hygiene sessions
Adolescence girl’s programme (for school going and school drop outs)
To impart accurate and reliable information to adolescence girls on topics identified as important to their health and hygiene
Topics covered will be-
- Family life education
- Menstruation health and hygiene
- Anaemia
Community based programmes
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Counselling – for youth on substance abuse, for women on their health issues especially of reproductive health, use of contraception, domestic violence etc.
- Sessions- on preventive measures of diseases, management of diseases e.g.- diarrhea etc
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Health information system- the resource centre will be equipped with health information education material in form of flip books, flip charts, documentaries etc.
Research -
Health is central in social and economic development of a Nation. Since it is established that health is not just a biomedical phenomenon it is multidimensional field. Hence, to understand health from other perspective CDC conducts studies and research on various social determinants of health.
Completed study - Need assessment study in urban slums of Shastri Nagar, Jaipur
Ongoing study – Health status of women vegetable vendors