Case Studies

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Chemical Odour Incidents in SIPCOT Industrial Area, Cuddalore
(2004) G.K Amrithslingam et.al
The Study explores and provides conclusive cases of a range of illnesses related to industrial pollution and chemical odour incidents among the residents living in and around the SIPCOT industrial area based on their subjective experiences. The study recorded 36 different type of chemical odour and 30 health symptoms associated with them. The study found that Children in villages were more prone to frequent illnesses.
Cholera and Nothing More
(2010) Delan Devakumar
This case study reflects various ethical and moral dilemmas confronted by a practitioner in the midst of a contagious epidemic of cholera whether to adopt a consequential approach or deontological approach in such a scenerio. The case study illustrates dilemmas of interest of population and individual conflict. Issues of epidemic versus routine service delivery. Resource constraints and international funding context.
Women in the Lead- Monitoring Health Services in Bangladesh
(2103) Samina Afrin; Sarita Barpanda; Abhijit Das
A Series of case-studies that shows community organized efforts to negotiate better health care services from the State and women's fight for their reproductive rights and address gender based violence. Besides, it highlights the efforts of WHRAP initiative of Naripokkho to strengthen health systems accountability through its three pronged strategy viz. community monitoring of health clinics, training functionaries of its partnership organization and working in collaboration with member of parliament, local elected representative and members of hospital management to create a participatory review and planning mechanism.
Voluntary or Regulated? The Trans Fat Campaign in New York City
(2012) Lisa Armstrong
This case study explores the details of how decisions are made on a specific policy intervention. Who all are the actors and stakeholders involved in the process. It shows the interaction of science, ethics, politics and ethical issues in policy making. It also highlights preventive, promotive and curative aspects of chronic illnesses.
Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA): Instituting an Ideal
(2023) Shantanu Menon; Kushagra Merchant; Devika Menon; Aruna Pandey
This Case Study traces the journey of YUVA co-founded by a young graduate Minar Pimple along with a group lecturers and peers to evolve an indigenous model of social work practice. Its work with socio-politically marginalized youth driven by the principles of social justice, feminism and rights and responsibilities allows the readers to learn and explore the idea, relevance and practices of a feminist organization.
Case Study of Mr. Gulati- A Heart Patient. (This case study has been developed from the transcripts of Prof. Arima Mishra research on heart diseases)
Arima Mishra
The case study of Mr. Gulati explores many pertinent issues pertaining to Non-Communicable diseases like decision making process in seeking health care, caregiving ecosystem, patient agency and voice, compliance, etc. It also raises some critical questions for reflection viz. What are the causes of NCDs (Heart Diseases/Diabetes)? Why NCDs are called Lifestyle diseases? Who is responsible for leading a healthy lifestyle? What are the constraints in accessing NCD care?
Case Study of Ms. Nupur Bano. (This case study has been developed from the transcripts of Prof. Arima Mishra research on heart diseases)
Arima Mishra
The case study of Ms. Nupur Bano explores many pertinent issues pertaining to Non-Communicable diseases like decision making process in seeking health care, caregiving ecosystem, patient agency and voice, compliance, etc. It also raises some critical questions for reflection viz. Was Nupur Bano non-compliant of diabetic medication? What are the Constraints in accessing NCD care?
Women Beedi Workers' Health: Up in Smoke
(2022) Smita Khator
The case study documents occupational hazards and poor working conditions of Beedi workers leading to a range of health issues affecting other domains of their lives. It also shows how women continue to be a source of cheap labour in the informal sector and are made to bear the consequences of occupational hazards without any social security and health care benefits.
What Killed Annette Jean (From the Book Infections and Inequalities)
(1999) Paul Farmer
The case study highlights structural violence, poverty and its connections with tuberculosis. It also shows inequalities in distribution and outcome of infectious diseaseses. It explores the disparities manifesting in biological form but are largely socially determined. The story also impels the readers to make sense of somatization, grief and suffering.
Umeed Child Development Center: A Hope for Acceptance
(2023) Urvashi Thakur; Shantanu Menon; Kushagra Merchant
This case study documents the journey of Umeed Child Development Centre- that works in the domain of developmental disabilities among children. It is partly the story of Vibha Krishnamurthy, a developmental paediatrician along with her team at Umeed to wean developmental disabilities and design interventions and create awareness and solutions about them. It also shows what it means to build and sustain a culture that must deal with multiple interventions and on which such a practice can stand.
Understanding and Addressing Environmental Health Challenges: An Aid for Learning Facilitators
(2018) Adithya Pradyumna
A Series of Case-Studies from several states of India and across the world to demonstrate linkages between environment and health using a community health approach. It also shows role of active participation and engagement of impacted local community and local professionals in addressing environmental health problems and improving health of communities.
Tuberculosis Story
(2021) Mohit Gandhi
This is a story of Jeetan and Ram from Bihar, Vaishali district who migrate to Mumbai in search of work and start working at a construction site there in the stone crusher section. It highlights social and occupational risk factors of Tuberculosis and HIV and their interaction with the public health care delivery system. The case story highlights the journey of Jeetan and Ram from the development and manifestation of symptoms of TB to challenges in seeking treatment. The case study is divided into 9 sections, each section highlights some pertinent issues along with pointers for duscussion and some reflections.
Counselling and Care on Call: The Story of the TB Careline
(2020-21) Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT)
This case study documents the journey of a free-of-cost phone-based TB Careline Program based in a modest office of single room in Dharward that counsels TB patients and provides information about the disease to those opting for the service. Besides, it links the patients back to treatment if they discontinue and provide feedback to the providers about their patient status. First part of the case study discusses the background and evolution of the TB careline program earlier known as' Mitra' that was born out of an intervention conducted under Strengthening Health Outcomes Through the Private Sector (SHOPS) in 2014. It also shows how the intervention has managed to sustain over a period of time and then goes on to discuss the impact it has created in terms of providing care to the TB patients. The process of counselling and care begins when a patient with a Careline card is instructed to give a missed call on +91 7349778223. A care line counsellor returns the call. First call is the introductory call, subsquently the first session begins. The TB careline has registered 15,989 patients between 2014 to 2020. During this period 7,241 patients have completed treatment and 2,552 patients are under active care. The service is flexible and adaptable to the needs of the patient and requirements of the health systems. One of the important learnings from the case study is use of technology to offer a personalized approach to prevention, care and support without removing the human connect and making it acceptable to the patient and caregiver. This type of interventions are especially important when treatment period is long with mandatory dosage and road to recovery is long and is made more difficult by socio-economic factors like poverty, malnutrition and stigmatization.
The Long Road to the Sugarcane Fields
(2017) M.N. Parth
The case study shows how agrarian crisis combined with lack of subsistence due to unavailability of work in villages of Beed District has induced mass migration of workers to seek work as an agricultural labourer in the Sugarcane fields. Besides, it highlights social disruptions and economic distress it has induced in workers lives and its consequences for their health.
The Story of Selvi and Gopalan. The Last Resort: Why Patients with Severe Mental Disorders go to Therapeutic Shrines In India. From the Book- Restoring Mental Health in India: Pluralistic Therapies and Concepts
(2009) Brigitte Sebastia
The case study explores various pertinent questions pertaining to people with mental disorders and the therapeutic route their family members choose. Besides, it explores when and why religious therapy is chosen for treatment of mental disorders and place of religious therapy. Why people visit therapeutic shrines and reasons for choosing religious therapy. The case study also deliberates upon the practice of Psychiatry and history of various treatment practices for patients with mental disorders involving double treatment combining religious therapy and medicine. It illuminates medical pluralism, stereotyping gender question, religion and science.
Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA): An Ethos of Care
(2023) Menaka Rao; Shantanu Menon; Kushagra Merchant; Aruna Pandey
This case study documents the journey of SNEHA- a public health organization that works in dense poor and low income urban settlements. It emphasizes on prevention and adopting community based approaches to reduce excessive reliance on institution-led public health delivery. It also documents organizational culture of appreciative inquiry, and use of technology and community based models that has allowed SNEHA to flourish in a rapidly urbanizing agglomeration.
Shadowing Suvartha on his Waste-Picking Route in Vijayawada
(2020) Shrutika Murthy
The photo-essay is an immersive and reflective exercise that attempts to understand the daily lives of waste pickers through documenting "a day in life" of Suvartha, a waste picker in Vijayawada. It highlights the hazardous and inhuman working conditions of waste pickers lacking any protective equipment, constant bending and carrying heavy loads leading to physical exhaustion, body soreness, joint and muscle pain.
Tiger Widows of Sundarbans: Navigating Ecology, Beliefs and Mental Health
(2018) Sahana Ghosh
The case study discusses the lives Bagh-Bidhoba" (Tiger Widows) that allows us to understand a unique relationship between Gender, Environment, Culture and Mental Health through the prism of Eco-Psychiatry. It highlights the cases of social stigma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) faced by the widows. It also shows how PTSD has a strong negative impact on the earnings of these widows and the cases of extreme anxiety and fear. Besides it highlights that 72% of PTSD cases were associated with tiger attacks how many of the deaths due to tiger attack becomes illegal because of the entry into the restricted areas.
To Reveal or Not to Reveal Potentially Harmful Findings: A Dilemma for Public Health Research. (From the Book-Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe)
(2016) Renaud F. Boulanger; Matthew R. Hunt; D.H. Barret et al.(Edited)
The case study illuminates ethical issues specifically in international collaborative research. It also accentuates researchers obligations and responsibilities in a health research programme and moral and ethical dilemas in dessiminating their findings in a collaborative international research. It also shows the reader how multiple roles, responsibilities and interests of researcher interact and impact the individual and communal goods and outcome of the research.
Transcript by Zakia: Muslim Women Experiences at the Health Systems and in the Society at Large
Zakia- A MA Development Student. Mentor-Mukta Gundi
It is a powerful narrative that brings out a lot of nuanced experiences that Muslim women go through at the health systems and in the society at large. It highlights the issues of domestic violence, family support, traumatic experiences with the public health care system and stigma and discrimination towards muslim women. It also shows the pathetic state of government hospitals and the apathy, insensitive and indifferent attitude of government hospital staff towards Muslim women.

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