Shambhavi

Green rev­o­lu­tion Green rev­o­lu­tion is a pro­gram intro­duced in many coun­tries to increase food pro­duc­tion by used of mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy prop­a­ga­tion improve seeds etc.  White rev­o­lu­tion White Rev­o­lu­tion is a pro­gram in India to increase pro­duc­tion of milk in India.  Improve­ment in crop yields Types of crops a) Cere­als : they include crops like wheat ‚rice, maize, bar­ley … Read more

Pri­ma­ry Health Cen­tre (PHC) One PHC is approved for 30000 pop­u­la­tion in rur­al plain areas it is 1 PHC for every 20000 pop­u­la­tion in trib­al hilly areas.  The major func­tions of PHC includes health edu­ca­tion pro­mo­tion of Nutri­tion san­i­ta­tion immu­niza­tion MCH care appro­pri­ate treat­ment of com­mon dis­eases in these essen­tial drugs sup­ply imple­ment­ing and super­vis­ing var­i­ous … Read more

Indi­a’s Health­care sys­tem can be clas­si­fied into many cat­e­gories based on var­i­ous para­me­ters. Depend­ing upon the func­tion it address the Health­care sys­tem in India con­sists of four com­po­nents they are:- Pri­ma­ry, sec­ondary & ter­tiary Insti­tu­tions made by Med­ical and para­med­ical per­son­nel.  Med­ical col­leges and para pro­fes­sion­al train­ing Insti­tu­tions to train the need­ed man­pow­er and give the … Read more

Indi­an Health­care ser­vices are usu­al­ly organ­ised at three lev­els are as fol­lows:- Pri­ma­ry Health Care Sec­ondary Health Care Ter­tiary Health Care Pri­ma­ry Health Care  This is the first lev­el of con­tact between the indi­vid­ual com­mu­ni­ty and the health sys­tem where is a Health Care is pro­vid­ed.  Amaz­ing order of pre­vail­ing health com­plaints minor ail­ments and … Read more

Intro­duc­tion Health is clear­ly not the near absence of dis­ease. Good health con­di­tions and shows that the per­son is free from any dis­ease and this gives him or her abil­i­ty to work and realise his or her full poten­tial. Good health con­fer­ence on a per­son or groups the free­dom from ill­ness and the abil­i­ty to … Read more

Dif­fer­ent coun­tries or con­ti­nents of the world are not equal­ly devel­oped this is because of the dif­fer­ence is in resources dif­fer­ence in cul­ture and dif­fer­ences in polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic sys­tems of the coun­try. The health of a per­son is pri­mar­i­ly depen­dent of the lev­el of socio eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment. Exam­ples are per capi­ta income Gross Nation­al … Read more

Behav­ior is asso­ci­at­ed with health and dis­ease, health relat­ed behav­ior of an indi­vid­ual is very impor­tant to ensure good health for him or her. For exam­ple a per­son main­tain­ing per­son­al hygiene is health relat­ed behav­ior and it effects his or her health.  Behav­ior of one indi­vid­ual leaves impact on anoth­er per­son­’s health for exam­ple impact … Read more

Gen­der refers to the social­ly as well as cul­tur­al­ly defined roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties of men and women. The gen­der roles are learnt through social­iza­tion in dif­fer­ent social insti­tu­tions. Gen­der inequal­i­ty is the dis­crim­i­na­tion based on the per­sons sex in terms of oppor­tu­ni­ties in the allo­ca­tion of resources ben­e­fits or access to the ser­vices. Gen­der equal­i­ty … Read more

Cul­ture is a sys­tem of thoughts and behav­iors saved by a group of peo­ple. Our cul­tur­al back­ground have tremen­dous impact on our life spe­cial­ly on our health. Cul­ture varies from one local group to anoth­er. It and there’s and evolves as well as is val­ued for itself. Anthro­pol­o­gist have focused on both artis­tic as well … Read more

Com­mis­sion on social deter­mi­nants of health was formed by World Health Organ­i­sa­tion in 2003. The com­mis­sion released its final report in 2008 and this doc­u­ment serves as a guid­ing prin­ci­ple to pol­i­cy mak­ers in devel­op­ing coun­tries like India to shaped health poli­cies and pro­grams that acknowl­edg­ing the role of social deter­mi­nants of health.  It acknowl­edged … Read more