The Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation of Health & Hygiene is a process of evaluation of health,
nutritional intake and hygiene habits of child and adolescent developed by Centre for Education and Health
Research Organization. In a country of largest child population nearly nine million children die every
year from preventable diseases and infections
On National Level, we found following problem which are contributing to the
above situation:
- Prevention is not being done effectively that can enhance the healthcare and reduce the cost of the
individual and of the government on healthcare substantially. Bad awareness and prevention campaigns
also lead to overcrowded government hospitals and hence reducing the quality of healthcare further.
- Children from low-income families are worst affected - lack of information and knowledge of their
parents lead them to make wrong decisions about the healthcare - local hospitals/doctors are
ill-equipped to treat children - focus on the treatment of the current disease or sometimes symptoms is
much more than making the child healthy. There is also a trust issue, people generally believe private
hospitals are better than government ones.
- There is no system to detect early problems faced by the children in the country where world’s largest
child population resides- no data to inform policies and local interventions for awareness, prevention
and treatment (physical and mental)
On a national level, We want to use and understand the usability of public spaces instead of hospitals to
drive change around health; the public spaces maybe schools, anganwadis, community gatherings,
community-based local NGOs such as CEHRO. Basically, we want to prevent people from going to the hospital
and also making them know when they really need to visit a hospital before the situation gets worst.
These changes that we are talking about possibly could be brought by 3 methods:
- Awareness - Using public spaces and gatherings to build conversations around health
- Empowering - Empowering unqualified local people and parents with basic tools to judge their
child’s health, know what to do and act effectively. This could be done by organising multiple training
sessions giving parents tools and supporting them later on
- Data - Providing data for policy interventions, local level interventions or individual level
interventions
On Munirka Level, We’ve made significant progress in the data collection, we have developed continuous
comprehensive evaluation of health hygiene of child and adolescent.
We collect their data on daily basis. Datasheet includes questions related to eating habit and
sanitation- like did they brush or not, breakfast/lunch they had, did the take a bath, washed hands These
data is presented to parents as evidence and are encouraged to make certain changes
To add nutrition, we provide healthy refreshments like fruits, biscuits, bread and milk.
In this system, children do daily self evaluation of the following parameters:
- Hygeine habits
- Protien, Fruits, Vegetables and fastfood consumption
- Timeliness
Secondly, Regular medical check-ups are arranged in the community and in some cases we take them to the
medical centres. It includes eye check-up, dental check-up and general health check-ups. we organize two
health check up camps that focuses on:
- Hieght, Weight, Age and BMI relationships
- Hygiene indicators
- Nutritional Indicators
- Detecting any present or potential diseases