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Aarogya Seva
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Literally meaning "Healthy Service" in Hindi, this is Noora Health's Support WhatsApp Line. It allows for digital follow-ups and health support for families after they leave the hospital. The service sends out regular messages about healthy behaviors, and also connects families with medical practitioners for one-on-one communication.
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ASHA - Accredited Social Health Activist
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Family Welfare, Government of India under the National Rural Health Mission. They are selected from a particular village and accountable to it, working as an interface between the public health system and community.
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Baseline Hospital
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This refers to one of the 28 hospitals selected to be part of the neonatal evaluation done in partnership with Ariadne Labs. These hospitals were selected randomly throughout Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh.
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CCP - Care Companion Program
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Noora Health's primary offering, which provides high-impact medical skills training to patients and family members through the duration of their hospital stay, to improve recovery at home and facilitate lasting health behavior change. The CCP is delivered in 159 facilities in India, in collaboration with local governments and partners. It covers four program areas - Maternal and Newborn Care, Oncology Care, Cardiac Care, and General Medical and Surgical Care.
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Care Companion App
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This platform connects Noora Health's trainers, Program Managers, and nurses to increase engagement and also streamline logistics such as record collection of sessions - patient attendance, topics covered, etc.
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COVID CCP (or CCP for COVID-19 or COVID-19 Teletraining)
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Noora Health's teletraining service, which provides empathetic, comprehensive, and proactive remote training and skill-building for families caring for COVID-19 infected patients in order to support recovery at home. Noora’s content and program design has been guided by human-centered design principles. This program will not provide telemedicine, i.e. diagnosis or prescriptions for receiving medication or treatment.
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DGHS Bangladesh - Directorate General of Health Services, Bangladesh
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The agency of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh responsible for health services in the country.
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HWC - Health and Wellness Center
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These are centers that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India envisages for the delivery of free primary health care services at the community level. They will cover not only maternal and child health care services, but also include care for non -communicable diseases, palliative and rehabilitative care, oral, eye, and ENT care, mental health and first-level care for emergencies and trauma (including free essential drugs and diagnostic services).
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IVRS - Interactive Voice Response System
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A telecommunication system that manages multiple incoming phone calls at once. Listeners can choose between different options and hear pre-recorded messages. For example, “press 1 to learn more about our mutual fund schemes.†At Noora, we use this system for our COVID CCP phone training service.
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MoHFW - Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
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The government ministry that is responsible for health policy in India.
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NHA - National Health Authority
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The apex body responsible for implementing India's flagship health insurance scheme, the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) at the national level.
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NHM - National Health Mission
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Launched in 2013 by the Government of India, the NHM was set up to help achieve universal access to equitable, affordable & quality health care services in India. Its main programmatic components include health system strengthening in rural and urban areas, focusing on Reproductive-Maternal-Neonatal-Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A), and Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases.
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OF Tool - Observation and Feedback Tool
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This is a tool developed by Noora Health to help its Program Managers track the trainers' soft skills, feedback, amount of content covered, etc for the Care Companion Program.
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Program
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A particular content/patient condition area where we operate, i.e. Maternal Child Health program. A particular program may have sub-components as well (the MCH program has antenatal care, postnatal care, and SNCU care as a part of it).
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Product
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Teaching tools such as flipcharts, training such as what we provide nurses (Training of Trainers), or technologies such as the WhatsApp platform. These components are used in our overall CCP.
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RCT - Randomised Control Trial
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TResearch design in which exposure to intervention is randomised so the effect of the intervention can be measured.
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ToC - Theory of Change
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Noora Health's Theory of Change has been developed in collaboration with governments to guide the overall implementation, outcomes, and impact goals of the Care Companion Program.
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ToT - Training of Trainers
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A core component of Noora Health's model, where nurses and doctors are trained on communication and family caregiver engagement practices.
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WA - WhatsApp
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A cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Facebook, Inc; used at Noora Health for post-discharge follow-up offerings.
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General Terminology
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- CCP – Care Companion Program
- TOT – Training of Trainers
- HCD – Human-Centred Design
- REI – Research Evaluation Impact
- GIN– Growth Implementation & Networking
- KMC – Kangaroo Mother Care
- CC – Care Companion
- DCCS – Digital Care Companion Service
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Governmental Partners
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- DGHS – Directorate General of Health Services
- IVRS – Interactive Voice Response System
- MoHFW – Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- NHA – National Health Authority
- NHM – National Health Mission
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Research Terminology
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- TOC – Theory of Change
- FHE – Family Health Educator
- MT – Master Trainers
- DT – Dedicated Trainers
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Countries
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- IN – India
- BD – Bangladesh
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States
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- KA – Karnataka
- MH – Maharashtra
- MP – Madhya Pradesh
- AP – Andhra Pradesh
- TS – Telangana State
- PB – Punjab
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Files Nomenclature
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- MD – Medical File
- IL – Illustration File
- VD – Visual Design File
- TL – Translation File
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Reviews
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- MR – Medical Review
- TR – Translation Review
- DR – Design Review
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Medical Projects Led by Noora Health
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- END – Endline
- CCP – Care Companion Program
- TB – Tuberculosis
- CHC – Community Health Care
- PHC – Primary Health Care
- ANC – Antenatal Care
- MCH – Maternal and Child Health
- PNC – Postnatal Care
- SNCU – Sick Newborn Care Unit
- NBSU – Newborn Stabilisation Unit
- NICU – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- GEMS – General Medicine and Surgery
- IP – In Patient
- SSI – Sathya Sai Institute
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Hospitals/ Clinics/ Care Centres
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- FHE – Family Health Educator
- DT – Dedicated Trainers
- MT – Master Trainer
- DH – District Hospital
- TH – Taluka Hospital
- SDH – Sub-District Hospital
- CHC – Community Health Centre
- HWC – Health and Wellness Centre
- PHC – Primary Health Centres
- UPHC – Urban Primary Health Centres
- CH – Civil Hospitals
- MS – – Medical Supritendent
- SMO – Senior Medical officer
- CMHO – Chief Medical Health Officer
- NS – Nursing sister/supritendent
- AHA – Assistant Hospital Administrative
- DPM – District Program Manager
- DFPO – District Family Program Officer
- LHV – Lady Health Visitor
- GNM – General Nursing and Midwifery
- DHS – Directorate of Health Services
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Tools
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- OF – Observation and Feedback
- WA – Whatsapp
- IVRS – Interactive Voice Response Systems
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Non-Government Partners
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- SCHE – Stanford Centre for Health Education
- ARL – Ariadne Labs
- ACF – Ambuja Cement Foundation
- TURN – Praekelt’s WhatsApp Turn.io Platform
- NH – Narayana Health
- ASHA – Accredited Social Health Activist
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