An Overview of resource material facilitated or published by CHC

Over the last 25 years, the Community Health Cell (CHC), the functional unit of the Society for Community HealthAwareness Research and Action (SOCHARA) has been involved with various initiatives and processes to explore the social and community paradigm of health and to build a people’s health movement. While a lot of materials and reflections were put together as an integral part of the process, they did not always result in a separate publication. However, very often our partners and our associates published books, booklets, monographs,reports and other sorts of publication that helped the campaigns and initiatives but also became reference and learning material for the younger professionals and health activists embarking on their community health journeys.Asacontributiontothe CHC’sSilverJubilee, this compilation would help in keeping track of some of the most significant publications that were linked to or facilitated by, even published, mostly in later years by CHC. Some of these publications may be out of print and only available in libraries or documentation centres including CHC’s –CLIC (Community Health Library and Information Centre), but they are being listed for ready reference and archival value.

1. Development with people: Experiments with participation and non-formal education.
Ed: Fernandes W. Indian Social Institute 10, Institutional Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi (India),
Chapter.4. Community Health: The Quest for an Alternative. PP: 67-82. (Narayan, R. )

1985-1986
2. The Bhopal Study and related publications:
(a) The Bhopal Disaster Aftermath: an epidemiological and socio-medical survey-the study report, mfc, (1985). PP: 76
The report of a research study, probably the first community-based epidemiological and socio-medical survey in India, undertaken by the MFC team in March1985 on the aftermath of Bhopal gas tragedy. The study was released to the scientific community,press and public, highlighting the grave findings of the state of health of the Bhopal gas victims three months after the disaster. It also contains a report on people’s perception of health services, case-studies and a bibliography.
(b)The Bhopal Disaster Aftermath: an epidemiological and socio-medical survey. A Summary of the report., mfc,(1985).    PP: 14 ( for media and public education)
a & b: MFC secretariat, (1985) C/o Community Health Cell, 326, 5th Main, 1st Block, Koramangala, Bangalore, Karnataka,
India 560034.
(c) Hamaari Sehat, Hamaari Ladaai (A mfc/ Eklavya animated, popular-education booklet in Hindi for people affected by the disaster) (1986) Eklavya, I-1/208, Arera Colony, Bhopal 462016, Madhya Pradesh PP: 56 1986................
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As a follow up and archives of the last 25 years, the publications are broadly classified into eight groups