I am just starting research focused on the decolonization of tribal healthcare as a means to improve tribal health disparities. This article will be helpful since there is a dearth of information on the topic in the primary care realm. Integrated (biopsychosocial) care is always the ideal. If anyone out there has information on any pilot programs or individuals who are doing work in this area, please let me know!
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Hi Mary! You can talk contact an NGO SEARCH working in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India. It is working for and with the the ethnic tribes settled there. Another suggestion is to have a look at the MAHER scheme launched by the Govt. of Maharashtra to promote institutional deliveries. A researcher in this field had informed me that tribal women are afraid to even sleep on a cot/bed! which is quite unthinkable for a majority of us. So all the best for your efforts!! :)
Mary, what can I do for you, since your last name mean give or generous. It is rather a very interesting subject, there is no doubt about it. I have done a lot of anthropometric measurement on people. Anthro is taken from anthrpology, as you probably desifer.
How kind of you! I am wondering about this from the POV of the US and tribes, of course, but can you tell me perhaps about NGOs that have great intent to help but come in to your country unaware of various mores/health practices (and maybe don't make an effort to learn!) and methods they might undertake to include Community-Based Participatory Research in an effort to develop programs that are helpful AND acceptable to the native people? I'll be interested to hear your answer! mej
I recently read an article on liberation medicine (https://www.warresisters.org/content/liberation-medicine-healthcare-and-solidarity) that may have some relevance to your work. The article pertains to Doctors for Global Health working in Chiapas, Mexico.
Please don't be discouraged to find so little, but be inspired to pave the way!
Dear Mary,
I have gone through your post and your proposed research programme.
In case you need information on Tribal Health Research in India at this period, you may contact the RMRCT (Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals) at Jabalpur (address: Nagpur Road, P.O. Garha, Jabalpur 482003, M.P. INDIA ) This is one of the institutes under ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) Besides, you can see the website of ICMR for its publication especially for the one study by Dr. Kanjakshya Ghosh& associates of Institute of Immuno Heamatology, of Mumbai (another ICMR Institute) I worked as Librarian at NICED of ICMR for more than 15 years and I believe that in case you want to have an idea of contemporary research on Tribal Health in India, you will get ample study materials from them. In case you have any difficulty, you can contact me. I presume though I left ICMR more than a decade & a half, I still have some connection with many of them.
Good luck to your research endeavour!!
Siddhartha S. Ray
Wow! That is fabulous information. Siddhartha -- thank you so very much! mej
Thanks Mary;
I have just received the Tribal Health Bulletin, a biannual publication on Tribal Health and found one article Tribal Inequality: the challenges remain by M. Muniyandi & Neeru Singh which might be of interest to you. The text may be sort of popular article but the reference part is quite informative. Today,I had a mail exchange with Dr. R.K. Sharma, their Library Officer & I learnt from him that all the issues of Tribal Health Bulletin are available in their website. Besides, the Anthropological survey of India too are doing little bit research on Tribal Health as I just learnt from their newsletter. You may try that too if you feel like.
Sincerely,
Siddhartha S. Ray,.
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