Society for Community Health Awareness Research and Action
Society for Community Health Awareness Research and Action
SOCHARA, as a interdisciplinary resource group involved in broad spectrum of community health and public health activities to facilitate Health for All goal via six variant objectives. Apart from these major initiatives, the teaching & learning facilitation, training, advocacy and community health action work of SOCHARA through its units in Bengaluru, Chennai and Bhopal and support to health as social movement at state, national and international levels. Our approach to work is planned to involve processes like training, advocacy, research and action to avoid replication and involving people/participants at all stages. Our work can be broadly classified as process and themes as shown below:.
Processes |
Themes |
Community Awareness Building |
Community Health Workers |
Community Action |
Community Monitoring |
Community based / Oriented Training Strategies |
Environmental and Occupational Health |
Community Health Research |
Disaster Response |
Health Policy Action |
HIV/AIDS |
Health as a Social Movement |
Integration of Medical and Health Systems |
Health Solidarity |
Mental Health |
Public Health Education |
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Rationale Drugs Policy/Essential Medicines |
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Sanitation |
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Substance Abuse |
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Tuberculosis |
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Urban Health |
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Vector Borne Disease |
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Women's Health |