Cairn India is committed to conducting its operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. This commitment is fundamental to the long term success and focus on creating value and making a difference where Cairn India operates through various community development initiative in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is therefore an integral part of Cairn India’s business strategy. Cairn India’s success is guided by the CSR vision, which is encapsulated in the 3 Rs – Respect, Relationships and Responsibility.
Community Model to Improve Slum Health in Smart Cities,Wards,Localities:Pract...Siddharth Agarwal
Slum families live amidst dirt leading to contamination of water, spread of flies, rodents, mosquitoes, which carry diseases e.g. diarrhea, typhoid, jaundice, dengue, chikungunya, malaria. U¬5 undernutrition in the poorest urban quartile are 2.5 times higher than the richest urban quartile.
Practical approaches:
1.City map: Govt. of India’s NUHM & Housing Policy mandate mapping of all listed/unlisted/hidden slums on city map. UHRC's social facilitators, women's group members with govt. ANMs, Anganwadi workers identified, mapped hidden, unlisted and newly formed slums in Indore.
Slum Women’s groups use hand-drawn basti maps to a)prevent exclusion of family from lists for housing, entitlements; b)Track access to health services e.g. vaccination, ANC, c) identify recent migrants, vulnerable slums.
2.Basti women’s groups in Indore & Agra function as slum women’s health groups (Mahila Arogya Samitis or MAS) mandated in Govt. of India’s NUHM to strengthen demand for health, environmental services. With knowledge, confidence & skills, women’s groups increase access to Govt. address proof and Picture ID.
3. MAS members save monthly to build savings pool. This saving helps in time of health emergency, marriage, child's education, rescues poor people from moneylenders.
Based on Indore & Agra experience, India’s National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) mandates Mahila Arogya Samiti as a demand side strategy and creation a Revolving Community Fund as two of eight core NUHM strategies (Government of India, 2013).
4. With motivation youth-children groups bring more vigour to community efforts. Youth requests to authorities for streets, garbage cleaning. Basti children’s group members apply & avail govt. scholarship.
5. Outreach Health Services by Govt & Pvt Providers in deprived clusters are facilitated by basti women’s groups. They help ANMs identify vulnerable pockets, improve service access, infection prevention, promote healthy behaviours.
With mentoring support from UHRC, they promote nutrition & health with simple recipes e.g. sprouted cooked, garnished black gram. Women take up gardening for nutrition despite space constraints.
6. Women’s groups submit requests to different depts. for paving of basti lanes, water supply, sewage system, electric connections.
7. Ladies & children making jewellery & greeting cards gives creative & psycho-emotional energy despite living in dirt. Creative art stimulates right brain which enhances skills, intellectual responses, learning ability, confidence. These help slum populations gather more strength and hope to better deal with the vagaries of life.
8. Women’s Livelihoods: Tailoring & Stitching training centres for women are run. Women/girls stitch frocks, trousers, girls’ tops, shirts at home on per piece basis. Women also sell vegetables, grocery, run slum convenience store, tiffin service.
Sanata dreams of a tap in her yard : a photo story from BanforaIRC
Sanata (35) works as a cleaner in a health centre in Banfora, Burkina Faso. She wants a better life for herself and her children. The Mayor of Banfora is well aware that improving water services will really help Sanata and many others in his district. A photo story by IRC Burkina Faso.
Community Model to Improve Slum Health in Smart Cities,Wards,Localities:Pract...Siddharth Agarwal
Slum families live amidst dirt leading to contamination of water, spread of flies, rodents, mosquitoes, which carry diseases e.g. diarrhea, typhoid, jaundice, dengue, chikungunya, malaria. U¬5 undernutrition in the poorest urban quartile are 2.5 times higher than the richest urban quartile.
Practical approaches:
1.City map: Govt. of India’s NUHM & Housing Policy mandate mapping of all listed/unlisted/hidden slums on city map. UHRC's social facilitators, women's group members with govt. ANMs, Anganwadi workers identified, mapped hidden, unlisted and newly formed slums in Indore.
Slum Women’s groups use hand-drawn basti maps to a)prevent exclusion of family from lists for housing, entitlements; b)Track access to health services e.g. vaccination, ANC, c) identify recent migrants, vulnerable slums.
2.Basti women’s groups in Indore & Agra function as slum women’s health groups (Mahila Arogya Samitis or MAS) mandated in Govt. of India’s NUHM to strengthen demand for health, environmental services. With knowledge, confidence & skills, women’s groups increase access to Govt. address proof and Picture ID.
3. MAS members save monthly to build savings pool. This saving helps in time of health emergency, marriage, child's education, rescues poor people from moneylenders.
Based on Indore & Agra experience, India’s National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) mandates Mahila Arogya Samiti as a demand side strategy and creation a Revolving Community Fund as two of eight core NUHM strategies (Government of India, 2013).
4. With motivation youth-children groups bring more vigour to community efforts. Youth requests to authorities for streets, garbage cleaning. Basti children’s group members apply & avail govt. scholarship.
5. Outreach Health Services by Govt & Pvt Providers in deprived clusters are facilitated by basti women’s groups. They help ANMs identify vulnerable pockets, improve service access, infection prevention, promote healthy behaviours.
With mentoring support from UHRC, they promote nutrition & health with simple recipes e.g. sprouted cooked, garnished black gram. Women take up gardening for nutrition despite space constraints.
6. Women’s groups submit requests to different depts. for paving of basti lanes, water supply, sewage system, electric connections.
7. Ladies & children making jewellery & greeting cards gives creative & psycho-emotional energy despite living in dirt. Creative art stimulates right brain which enhances skills, intellectual responses, learning ability, confidence. These help slum populations gather more strength and hope to better deal with the vagaries of life.
8. Women’s Livelihoods: Tailoring & Stitching training centres for women are run. Women/girls stitch frocks, trousers, girls’ tops, shirts at home on per piece basis. Women also sell vegetables, grocery, run slum convenience store, tiffin service.
Sanata dreams of a tap in her yard : a photo story from BanforaIRC
Sanata (35) works as a cleaner in a health centre in Banfora, Burkina Faso. She wants a better life for herself and her children. The Mayor of Banfora is well aware that improving water services will really help Sanata and many others in his district. A photo story by IRC Burkina Faso.
We are open to new partnerships from Non Governmental organisations,co-operate organisations,governments,philanthropists,charity organisations and individuals who seek a change a positive in the lives of all humans. Water is life,so lets not rest on our laurels as our fellow beings suffer.
Your partnership and support is much needed and appreciated. Thank you. Contact us today!
Email : ruralwateraidinternational@gmail.com
Skype: ruralwateraidinternational
Mobile: +233 247 240 943
Cairn India is committed to conducting its operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. This commitment is fundamental to the long term success and focus on creating value and making a difference where Cairn India operates through various community development initiative in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is therefore an integral part of Cairn India’s business strategy. Cairn India’s success is guided by the CSR vision, which is encapsulated in the 3 Rs – Respect, Relationships and Responsibility.
Cairn India is committed to conducting its operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. This commitment is fundamental to the long term success and focus on creating value and making a difference where Cairn India operates through various community development initiative in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is therefore an integral part of Cairn India’s business strategy. Cairn India’s success is guided by the CSR vision, which is encapsulated in the 3 Rs – Respect, Relationships and Responsibility.
Cairn India is committed to conducting its operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. This commitment is fundamental to the long term success and focus on creating value and making a difference where Cairn India operates through various community development initiative in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is therefore an integral part of Cairn India’s business strategy. Cairn India’s success is guided by the CSR vision, which is encapsulated in the 3 Rs – Respect, Relationships and Responsibility.
The cover embodies the Cairn India principle of creating
long term value for our stakeholders through sustainable
business processes. While the horizon is a reflection of our
diversified portfolio of producing assets, the heart of the
report is the people or communities around our areas of
operation. Just as the principles of Respect, Responsibility
and Relationships are embedded in our business
processes and carried forward by every employee, we
hope the essence and impact of sustainability will also
act as a bridge between older and younger generations
of communities. The tree of life embodies the fruit of
hydrocarbon development and the children the catalyst
and carriers of this sustainability journey.
We are open to new partnerships from Non Governmental organisations,co-operate organisations,governments,philanthropists,charity organisations and individuals who seek a change a positive in the lives of all humans. Water is life,so lets not rest on our laurels as our fellow beings suffer.
Your partnership and support is much needed and appreciated. Thank you. Contact us today!
Email : ruralwateraidinternational@gmail.com
Skype: ruralwateraidinternational
Mobile: +233 247 240 943
Cairn India is committed to conducting its operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. This commitment is fundamental to the long term success and focus on creating value and making a difference where Cairn India operates through various community development initiative in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is therefore an integral part of Cairn India’s business strategy. Cairn India’s success is guided by the CSR vision, which is encapsulated in the 3 Rs – Respect, Relationships and Responsibility.
Cairn India is committed to conducting its operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. This commitment is fundamental to the long term success and focus on creating value and making a difference where Cairn India operates through various community development initiative in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is therefore an integral part of Cairn India’s business strategy. Cairn India’s success is guided by the CSR vision, which is encapsulated in the 3 Rs – Respect, Relationships and Responsibility.
Cairn India is committed to conducting its operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. This commitment is fundamental to the long term success and focus on creating value and making a difference where Cairn India operates through various community development initiative in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Sri Lanka. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is therefore an integral part of Cairn India’s business strategy. Cairn India’s success is guided by the CSR vision, which is encapsulated in the 3 Rs – Respect, Relationships and Responsibility.
The cover embodies the Cairn India principle of creating
long term value for our stakeholders through sustainable
business processes. While the horizon is a reflection of our
diversified portfolio of producing assets, the heart of the
report is the people or communities around our areas of
operation. Just as the principles of Respect, Responsibility
and Relationships are embedded in our business
processes and carried forward by every employee, we
hope the essence and impact of sustainability will also
act as a bridge between older and younger generations
of communities. The tree of life embodies the fruit of
hydrocarbon development and the children the catalyst
and carriers of this sustainability journey.
The prostate is an exocrine gland of the male mammalian reproductive system
It is a walnut-sized gland that forms part of the male reproductive system and is located in front of the rectum and just below the urinary bladder
Function is to store and secrete a clear, slightly alkaline fluid that constitutes 10-30% of the volume of the seminal fluid that along with the spermatozoa, constitutes semen
A healthy human prostate measures (4cm-vertical, by 3cm-horizontal, 2cm ant-post ).
It surrounds the urethra just below the urinary bladder. It has anterior, median, posterior and two lateral lobes
It’s work is regulated by androgens which are responsible for male sex characteristics
Generalised disease of the prostate due to hormonal derangement which leads to non malignant enlargement of the gland (increase in the number of epithelial cells and stromal tissue)to cause compression of the urethra leading to symptoms (LUTS
Title: Sense of Taste
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the structure and function of taste buds.
Describe the relationship between the taste threshold and taste index of common substances.
Explain the chemical basis and signal transduction of taste perception for each type of primary taste sensation.
Recognize different abnormalities of taste perception and their causes.
Key Topics:
Significance of Taste Sensation:
Differentiation between pleasant and harmful food
Influence on behavior
Selection of food based on metabolic needs
Receptors of Taste:
Taste buds on the tongue
Influence of sense of smell, texture of food, and pain stimulation (e.g., by pepper)
Primary and Secondary Taste Sensations:
Primary taste sensations: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami
Chemical basis and signal transduction mechanisms for each taste
Taste Threshold and Index:
Taste threshold values for Sweet (sucrose), Salty (NaCl), Sour (HCl), and Bitter (Quinine)
Taste index relationship: Inversely proportional to taste threshold
Taste Blindness:
Inability to taste certain substances, particularly thiourea compounds
Example: Phenylthiocarbamide
Structure and Function of Taste Buds:
Composition: Epithelial cells, Sustentacular/Supporting cells, Taste cells, Basal cells
Features: Taste pores, Taste hairs/microvilli, and Taste nerve fibers
Location of Taste Buds:
Found in papillae of the tongue (Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate)
Also present on the palate, tonsillar pillars, epiglottis, and proximal esophagus
Mechanism of Taste Stimulation:
Interaction of taste substances with receptors on microvilli
Signal transduction pathways for Umami, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, and Salty tastes
Taste Sensitivity and Adaptation:
Decrease in sensitivity with age
Rapid adaptation of taste sensation
Role of Saliva in Taste:
Dissolution of tastants to reach receptors
Washing away the stimulus
Taste Preferences and Aversions:
Mechanisms behind taste preference and aversion
Influence of receptors and neural pathways
Impact of Sensory Nerve Damage:
Degeneration of taste buds if the sensory nerve fiber is cut
Abnormalities of Taste Detection:
Conditions: Ageusia, Hypogeusia, Dysgeusia (parageusia)
Causes: Nerve damage, neurological disorders, infections, poor oral hygiene, adverse drug effects, deficiencies, aging, tobacco use, altered neurotransmitter levels
Neurotransmitters and Taste Threshold:
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) on taste sensitivity
Supertasters:
25% of the population with heightened sensitivity to taste, especially bitterness
Increased number of fungiform papillae
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE.pdfAnujkumaranit
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. It encompasses tasks such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding. AI technologies are revolutionizing various fields, from healthcare to finance, by enabling machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
Prix Galien International 2024 Forum ProgramLevi Shapiro
June 20, 2024, Prix Galien International and Jerusalem Ethics Forum in ROME. Detailed agenda including panels:
- ADVANCES IN CARDIOLOGY: A NEW PARADIGM IS COMING
- WOMEN’S HEALTH: FERTILITY PRESERVATION
- WHAT’S NEW IN THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS,
ONCOLOGICAL AND INFLAMMATORY SKIN DISEASES?
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ETHICS
- GENE THERAPY
- BEYOND BORDERS: GLOBAL INITIATIVES FOR DEMOCRATIZING LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROMOTING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE
- ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN LIFE SCIENCES
- Prix Galien International Awards Ceremony
Ethanol (CH3CH2OH), or beverage alcohol, is a two-carbon alcohol
that is rapidly distributed in the body and brain. Ethanol alters many
neurochemical systems and has rewarding and addictive properties. It
is the oldest recreational drug and likely contributes to more morbidity,
mortality, and public health costs than all illicit drugs combined. The
5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-5) integrates alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence into a single
disorder called alcohol use disorder (AUD), with mild, moderate,
and severe subclassifications (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
In the DSM-5, all types of substance abuse and dependence have been
combined into a single substance use disorder (SUD) on a continuum
from mild to severe. A diagnosis of AUD requires that at least two of
the 11 DSM-5 behaviors be present within a 12-month period (mild
AUD: 2–3 criteria; moderate AUD: 4–5 criteria; severe AUD: 6–11 criteria).
The four main behavioral effects of AUD are impaired control over
drinking, negative social consequences, risky use, and altered physiological
effects (tolerance, withdrawal). This chapter presents an overview
of the prevalence and harmful consequences of AUD in the U.S.,
the systemic nature of the disease, neurocircuitry and stages of AUD,
comorbidities, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, genetic risk factors, and
pharmacotherapies for AUD.
How to Give Better Lectures: Some Tips for Doctors
Andhra Pradesh Health and Sanitation
1. Corporate Social Responsibility
Respect | Relationships | Responsibility
Andhra Pradesh | Health and Sanitation
2. Cairn India – CSR Initiatives
Respect | Relationships | Responsibility
Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes strike
a balance between addressing the unique needs of various
communities while partnering the state and central agencies
to help strive for the betterment of the social indicators of the
regions.
This journey from micro to macro makes the CSR initiatives
more effective and sustainable.
For every life touched there is a larger story of the
community and the village.
5. Cairn India – CSR Initiatives
Respect | Relationships | Responsibility
East Godavari is primarily an
agricultural district and is among the
most prosperous districts in the state.
Statistically, it is a potential hinterland for
hydrocarbon reserves in the country, as
many locations in the Godavari Basin
have been identified as rich sources for
oil and natural gas in the country.
In sharp contrast to the district,
Surasaniyanam is one of the most
backward villages. Its population is
mainly engaged in agriculture, prawn
fishing and petty labour.
A majority of women across the country are
denied even the basic dignity and human
respect of having the provision of individual
toilets.
6. Cairn India – CSR Initiatives
Respect | Relationships | Responsibility
Health and
Sanitation
As per statistics, crimes
against women in smaller
villages and towns are
mostly committed when they
step out in the open fields
due to absence of toilets in
their vicinity. Cairn designed
and implemented a total
sanitation programme in the
village. The investment
made to construct individual
toilets is much higher than
the national average.
Women in the village feel
these toilets have helped
restore their dignity. They no longer have to step out in fear and it has helped improve hygiene
practices in the village.
Cairn has created infrastructure for storage of potable water and has implemented a model for
distribution of safe drinking water to individual households in collaboration with the Panchayat.
Our intervention on health in Ravva has been related to both preventive and curative care at
different levels. Cairn runs a clinic in Surasaniyanam, which addresses the primary healthcare
needs of the community in the village and other neighbouring villages. Apart from an Out Patient
Department (OPD), facility Cairn also provides round-the-clock emergency services. Health
camps are also organised from time to time with focus on specific health issues.
Absence of state of the art
healthcare facility in the vicinity of
Surasaniyanam resulted in a lot of
health related problems being left
unaddressed.