Category: Health care delivery

This category includes blogs about various modalities or systems that support delivery of health care system

GOBI: When simple measures in childcare went global

Index Home UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) launched GOBI initiative in the year 1982. This was a notable global health strategies aimed at reducing child mortality and improving child health. The acronym GOBI stands for Growth monitoring, Oral rehydration therapy (ORT), Breastfeeding, and Immunization. All of these are key interventions to combat the leading causes… Continue reading GOBI: When simple measures in childcare went global

Family planning: Have we completed a full circle ?

Index Home Family planning and birth control share a bond with one another. On one hand, phrase “to plan a family” is participatory, thought provoking, and sounds like a management exercise. On the other phrase “controlling birth” seemingly empowers humans to do, what only nature could or mostly could not achieve. These two phrases are like… Continue reading Family planning: Have we completed a full circle ?

Legacy of “Foresight prevents blindness” campaign

Index Home 1976 is a landmark year for Global Blindness Prevention. After years of apathy, blindness prevention and control was on World Health Organisation (WHO) agenda. Only a year ago in 1975, World Health Assembly had adopted a resolution on problem of blindness. The assembly zeroed in on six leading causes of blindness at that time,… Continue reading Legacy of “Foresight prevents blindness” campaign

World Health Organization: Philately @75

Birthday commemorations for WHO After the end of the second world war, victorious nations agreed to form an organisation, that could prevent a third-world war. When the ward ended in 1945, these countries formed United Nations. This was a beginning of global cooperation at an unprecedented scale As nations started their deliberations, there also was… Continue reading World Health Organization: Philately @75

Mission immunisation and polio eradication

Home Index Today polio stands eliminated from all but two countries in the world. India was declared to have eliminated polio in the year 2014. Ten years later about 65 odd cases are still reported annually from Pakistan and Afghanistan. 24th October is world polio day, and we still await its global eradication. Origins of poliomyelitis… Continue reading Mission immunisation and polio eradication

Two tools for child survival: ORS & Growth charts

Home Index Two ubiquitous child-survival tools, oral rehydration solutions (ORS) and growth charts, are less than 50 years old. Both of these tools are simple, intuitive, and logical. In the 1980s, many developing countries celebrated these tools through postage stamps. Let’s take a look at some of them in this blog. Eureka moments are often gradual… Continue reading Two tools for child survival: ORS & Growth charts

Breast feeding: A preferred infant nutrition in postage stamps

Home Index Have you ever wondered about old baby-food advertisements. In these advertisements, we could see healthy-chubby infants and happy composed mothers. Once frequent on television and in print media, these have faded away. Often these advertisements projected condensed milk as a preferred option. In India we had sought to curtail these in 1992. Eventually they… Continue reading Breast feeding: A preferred infant nutrition in postage stamps