Community Health Programme
Delivering compassionate, community-based healthcare through Arogyo Bhavan, ensuring wellness and dignity for all.
Integral Health Development Centre
(Arogyo Bhavan)
The overall concept is equity oriented as described in the 1978 Alma Ata conference. Equity is to be considered here as equal access to health care according to need and equal utilization of health care according to need, which can be termed as universal coverage of health care. Access in this case is defined in a broader way, which includes physical access to economic and social access. Utilization of health care has to address the issues of physical distance from the health facility, cost involved in using the health facility (fees, travel, medicines, lost income), perceptions of need and utility of health care, cultural constrains on the use of medical care and attitudes of health professionals. Together with equity the social and gender justice, quality improvement based on cost effective solutions, appropriate human resources development and desired lifestyle changes are also envisaged.
The programme will have a multi sectorial approach to health problems insuring the adoption and use of appropriate technology with an emphasis on health promotional activities. The community participation in decision-making is the key word especially in the context of decentralization and the emergence of micro level forms of democracy like self-help groups and the Neighborhood groups. The programme plans to link all the developmental activities of the area to converge to the health sector.
The programme extends into participation in decision-making, resource mobilization, implementation of activities, monitoring and evaluation. Thus the possibilities of increasing the efficacy and effectiveness in dealing with the health problems and, of ensuring the acceptability of the approach both the target community and health service providers are addressed. It is expected that these will guarantee the sustainability of the approach and programme. Being implemented in an environment of overall development initiatives the health programme will have broader social and economic effects.
The overall objective of the project is to bring together all the players in the health sector, integrate all the developmental activities related to proximate determinants of health through Panchayat Raj institutions for improving the health status of the population by developing a sustainable model of health care system.