What We Do

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
	Rationale Drugs Policy/Essential Medicines
	Sanitation
	Substance Abuse
	Tuberculosis
	Urban Health
	Vector Borne Disease
	Women's Health

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PROCESS