{"id":90175,"date":"2019-11-17T15:21:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T09:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2019-11-17T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T09:51:49","slug":"india-hypertension-control-initiativeihci-yields-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-hypertension-control-initiativeihci-yields-results\/","title":{"rendered":"India Hypertension Control Initiative(IHCI) yields results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) launched in four districts of Kerala has been able to control hypertension in about 35% of the people covered under the initiative.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About IHCI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The IHCI was launched in Kerala in 2018 as a multi-partner five-year initiative with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Indian Council of Medical Research, State government and WHO India.<\/li><li>The initiative was also launched in Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Punjab.<\/li><li>But the results from Kerala had been the most impressive because of the infrastructure strength of non-communicable disease clinics across the State.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features of IHCI:<\/strong>The key features of the Initiative include&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>treatment protocols that simplify quality patient care in primary care facilities&nbsp;<\/li><li>provision of adequate supply of quality medicines and blood pressure monitors&nbsp;<\/li><li>comprehensive training for healthcare workers at all levels on the latest practices in hypertension treatment and&nbsp;<\/li><li>team-based care for counseling and follow up of the patients.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/TAXUjcleIhAHaJMakvW9rr7TLaOnuP02Vmer_anHadrey703151i6Io96x-PrUejID_v77JCpS7l5IXdG0BXeEA_jhGu20obiRT1TbO75kwk-dNtoAZRu0obJPR_SkpRBtoniPMM\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Hypertension:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hypertension occurs when a person\u2019s arterial blood pressure is consistently elevated above a certain level.It is commonly known as high blood pressure.<\/li><li>The IHCI initiative was launched as in India,one in four adults has high blood pressure.Among them,only half have been diagnosed and only 10% have their blood pressure under control.<\/li><li>As a result,a large number of people develop heart attacks,strokes and kidney failure while in their productive years of life.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) launched in four districts of Kerala has been able to control hypertension in about 35% of the people covered under the initiative. Facts: About IHCI: The IHCI was launched in Kerala in 2018 as a multi-partner five-year initiative with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Indian Council&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-hypertension-control-initiativeihci-yields-results\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India Hypertension Control Initiative(IHCI) yields results<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[1822,2576,1748],"class_list":["post-90175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-hypertension","tag-ihci","tag-kerala","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700772522,"cached_date":1704812221},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}