Q1: What is the present healthcare scenario in remote areas of India? What are the factors responsible for the present situation?
Q2: Is the mobile Primary Healthcare Centers (mPHCs), a way forward?
Q1-Q2 has been partly answered and published in SAFER Journal which can be accessed as:
Conference Paper
Md Haseen Akhtar, Janakarajan Ramkumar, (2023) "Rethinking Primary Health Centers (PHCs): Designing for the post-pandemic era", Sustainability, Agri, Food and Environmental Research, (ISSN: 0719-3726), 11(X), 2023: https://doi.org/10.7770/safer-V13N1-art647
Access link: https://safer.uct.cl/index.php/SAFER/article/view/647 (Conference Paper - International Conference on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design. Enhancing the Connections in Collaboration with COA-TRC, Bhopal, India)
Q5: What kind of design solution will work in different geographical areas of India? Is the design solution the same for hilly regions, plain regions and during a disaster, etc? What are the factors which will govern the design of the mobile PHCs?
To answer Q5, we explored some state-of-the-art and collapsible systems simultaneously and thereby the research has been published in two separate research articles:
Conference Paper
Md Haseen Akhtar, Janakarajan Ramkumar, (2023 ) "Future Healthcare Facility Design: Fixing the broken healthcare system post-COVID-19", Sustainability, Agri, Food and Environmental Research, (ISSN: 0719-3726), 11(X), 2023: http://dx.doi.org/10.7770/10.7770/safer.v11i1.2968
Access link: https://safer.uct.cl/index.php/SAFER/article/view/441 (Conference Paper - International Conference on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design. Enhancing the Connections in Collaboration with COA-TRC, Bhopal, India)
Q3: What are the factors which should be considered to implement the mobile PHCs?
Q4: What are the different services which a mobile PHC can cater in the Indian context? What are the factors that will govern the type of services?
Q1-Q4 has been answered and published in Discover Health Systems which can be accessed as:
Journal Article
Akhtar, M.H., Ramkumar, J. Primary Health Center: Can it be made mobile for efficient healthcare services for the hard-to-reach population? A state-of-the-art review. Discov Health Systems 2, 3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44250-023-00017-x
Q6: What will be the method of deployment of a mobile PHC during different scenarios such as landslides, floods, earthquakes, etc? How the mobile PHC will be deployed in such situations?
Q7: What are the constraints in the adoption and operationalization of a mobile Primary Healthcare Center(mPHC)? What are the feasible methods to overcome such limitations?
Q5-Q7 has been partly answered with an on field study of Delhi Mohall Clinics and the research has been published in Discover Social Science and Health which can be accessed as:
Journal Article
Akhtar, M.H., Ramkumar, J. Making primary healthcare delivery robust for low resource settings: Learning from Mohalla Clinics. Discov Soc Sci Health 3, 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44155-022-00030-0