Health Care

 

Overview
Community health is an approach that sees the community as an important ingredient of effective public health practice. It seeks to influence attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, and health promoting behaviour, particularly amongst the underprivileged. This approach takes into account cultural norms and belief systems; local networks, support systems and institutions; and socio-economic as well as environmental factors.

The objectives of community health programme are:

• Improving the health seeking behaviour of socially and economically disadvantaged communities in rural areas, particularly among women and children
  
• Using community health as an instrument for gender equity and justice
  
• Contributing to the public debate on community health

Rapid population growth has caused a host of serious problems, including vulnerability of the poor to diseases and poor health. Most commonly encountered health problems can be tackled in primary care settings and a good primary care set up reduces the load on higher care Institutions.

We will provide affordable curative and preventive healthcare services through various programmes. We will construct health centres, operates mobile medical clinics, emergency ambulance services and conducts various health awareness, diagnostic and preventive camps. There are specific programmes addressing maternal mortality and providing support to patients suffering from chronic ailments like AIDS and TB.

Approaches
THD FOUNDATION aspires to positively improve the health seeking behaviour of socially, politically and economically disadvantaged constituencies of youth, women and children.

THD FOUNDATION wants to reach out to children with effective and efficient early childhood nutrition and care it wants to assure pregnant and lactating mothers of a peaceful eco –system and good nutrition that adequately fosters the growth and development of their children also to  reach out to youth and adolescent girls and boys to improve their understanding of reproductive and sexual health including health rights.

THD FOUNDATION would also want to arrest the declining child sex ratio in India that stands at an abysmal 919 girls against 1000 boys in 2011.

Future Outlook
By using the instruments of grant making, national level campaigns, awareness drives, events and publications in community health THD FOUNDATION would like to promote knowledge and seek attitudinal change in youth, women and men regarding Health.

Make grants to NGOs across and hold events at regional and national level to reflect on the challenges and positive outcomes