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Preventive Health
Sustainable Well Being Initiative

Introduction

Preventive care is an approach to healthcare that focuses on maintaining wellness and good health rather than treating illnesses when they occur.

Preventive care is not only the most cost-effective approach to healthcare, but it is also designed to prevent or delay illnesses and diseases, which in turn increases life expectancy.

Preventive measures decrease disease incidence and reduce the strain on limited healthcare resources.

Treating even one child with a serious condition incurs significant expenses. Limited health care resources are then diverted from multiple other children who could benefit with less expense. Thus, our goal is to prevent illnesses from becoming serious through education, awareness, and preventive measures. Taking a preventive care approach to healthcare enables us to efficiently use resources and maximize the number of children we are able to help.

Challenge


  • In India, illiteracy, poverty, and lack of awareness and access to healthcare resources contribute to the underutilization of healthcare services for routine infant, child, and maternal wellness checks. 
  • Limited healthcare resources, lack of adequate staff, medications and functioning equipment limit the number of people that can be treated in a timely and effective manner.

Solution

Ekam’s goal is to maximize the number of lives saved or treated, with a cost-effective and lasting approach to bring a change in the entire community’s health and wellbeing. Multiple interventions are done by Ekam towards this goal.

Trained Ekam staff:

  • Conduct health screening camps
  • Coordinate outreach campaigns to spread awareness about the importance of antenatal care and mobilize mothers to seek it.
  • Increase awareness about the importance of immunizations.
  • Sanitize labor rooms
  • Conduct Microbial surveillance to prevent infections
  • Organize Nutrition education camps
  • Train community health workers
  • Teach the community about topics such as maternal and child health, general health, and government health resources such as emergency medical response support, insurance schemes, and free health programs. 
  • Reach children at a young age by conducting school training, promoting volunteerism through drives, and establishing youth clubs.

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