Using Technology To Drive Community Health Initiatives

Urban poor populations in India including the scavenging communities face many challenges such as unsanitary living conditions, unavailable and poor food and nutrition, HIV/AIDS treatment, presence of non-communicable and communicable diseases and lack of basic healthcare support.

The Janvikas team worked extensively to provide healthcare support services during the COVID pandemic and identified it as an area of concern. Therefore, their team is working with community workers to collect health data and analyze it over a period of time to identify recurring health issues. Furthermore, they plan to use these insights to drive focused community health programs like infection prevention, malnutrition, chronic disease management, etc.

REAN Foundation is working with the organization to provide an open-source, user-friendly technology platform that will help their team to track and analyze health data. Insights derived through the technology tools will help identify trends and draw conclusions about key health challenges faced by specific communities. This knowledge could then be utilized by government agencies to plan focused disease prevention and management programs.