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Impact India's Community Health Inititive |
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An exceptional and highly innovative replicable project which conforms to all the priorities of the Indian Government and International Agencies (including the United Nations) : poverty reduction, decentralised planning, involvement of the community and working with marginalised groups. |
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Objectives |
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- Reduction by one-half in the incidence of future disability through prevention
- Reversal by one-half of existing disability by curative measures
- To develop systems, methodologies and monitoring arrangements that can be successfully replicated in India and developing countries
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- Reduction by one-half in the incidence
of future disability
- Women aged 15-49 with Anaemia
- Under 5 Malnutrition
- Vitamin A Deficiency in mothers and children
- Iodine Deficiency
- Acute Respiratory Tract Infection
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Diarrhoea in Children
- Areas of Focus
- Infant Mortality
- Under 5 Mortality
- Maternal Mortality
- Low Birth Weight
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- Reversal by one-half of existing disability
- Cataract
- Cleft lip and palates
- Visual impairment
- Hearing
- Speech
- Locomotion (mainly Polio)
- Other Disabilities
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- Areas of Concentration
- Nutrition
- Water quality
- Safe motherhood
- TB treatment
- Iodized salt
- Malaria
- Immunisation
- Expanded Programme of Immunisation
- Hepatitis
- Rubella
- Other specific areas
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The Community Health Inititive is intended to dramatically reduce the incidence of disabilities and to reverse existing disabilities. The project would be implemented over a
three-year period in three areas of India, each with a population of one million persons in three separate states -
three million in all.
Some other sub-initiatives:
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Community Health Inititive (CHI) - Project Report (381 KB) |
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*(PDF Format) |
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CHI |
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Download Project Report (Zip file
- 352 KB) |
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Format requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader |
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