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Slum Hypertension Project

Dept/Center/Lab: Department of Community Medicine

School: School of Medicine

Project Incharge:Dr. Rakesh P. S., Director (Porgrams), The UNION [former faculty ASM]
Funded by:Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Slum Hypertension Project

Through the project, self-help group members were educated on the causes of Hypertension and the various methods to control hypertension. These members were provided with BP Apparatus to monitor the BP of study participants.

Project Title: Effectiveness of a community-based education and peer support led by women’s self-help groups in improving the control of hypertension in urban slums of Kerala, India: a cluster randomised controlled pragmatic trial

Year: 2018-2020

BP Monitoring in Peer Groups
Home Based BP Monitoring by Women SHG Members

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