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The Kerala model refers to the practices adopted by the Indian state of Kerala to further human development. It is characterised by results showing strong social indicators when compared to the rest of the country such as high literacy and life expectancy rates, highly improved access to healthcare, and low infant mortality and birth rates.
Medicine. Medicine is the science [1] and practice [2] of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Home healthcare. Home healthcare and home nursing are also a growing phenomena in India. India Home Health Care is one such service provider, based in Chennai and Bangalore with over 300 nurses. Now, on-demand platforms like "Treat at Home" app are providing services like doctor home visit, nursing, caretaking and physiotherapy to patients at ...
Activities of daily living ( ADLs) is a term used in healthcare to refer to an individual's daily self-care activities. Health professionals often use a person's ability or inability to perform ADLs as a measure of their functional status. The concept of ADLs was originally proposed in the 1950s by Sidney Katz and his team at the Benjamin Rose ...
Affiliations. Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University. Website. psgimsr .ac .in. PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research is a teaching hospital and research institute located in Peelamedu, Coimbatore. It was established in 1985 as a part of PSG Group. [1] It has NABH accreditation. [2] PSG Hospitals, a 1400-bed, tertiary care hospital ...
India Home Health Care (IHHC) established in 2009 by V.Thiyagarajan provides home health care and home nursing services in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai in India. It has 800 employees, registered nurses, associate nurses and medical caretakers across these cities. [1] IHHC announced expansion into Hyderabad & Pune in 2014. [2]
A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people. [1] Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and ...
Domestic medicine. Domestic medicine or domestic health care is the behavioral, nutritional and health care practices, hygiene included, performed in the household and transmitted from one generation to the other. Such knowledge is complementary to the specialized skills of doctors and nurses. Consisting of preventive and curative tools, often ...