As part of our
international project “a mobile diagnostic and screening toolkit for urban
slums settings”, a workshop was conducted on the 18th-19th
of October 2016 in Bangalore, India. This workshop marked the end of phase 1 of
the project which aimed at identifying common health issues in urban slums in
India. The aim of the workshop was to consolidate and discuss the findings of
phase 1 and seek further inputs from project partners and other major
stakeholders. It involved group discussions and activities to prioritise the health
issues identified during phase 1. Researchers from the project team also visited
one of the urban slums in Bangalore and conducted community consultations to
gain more insight into the perspectives of slum dwellers.
The results of phase 1 and the workshop will be
used to plan the next phase of the project which will involve designing and
developing a conceptual model of a mobile toolkit to perform a number of
diagnostic and screening tests relevant to the priority health issues in urban
slums. Phase 2 will also involve conducting a workshop in January 2017 in India
to discuss the conceptual model with the relevant stakeholders.Written by Sarah Abdi
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