Climate Change and health and Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP)

Climate Change and health and Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP)

Subject: Environment

Section: Climate change

* IPCC established by WMO and UNEP in 1988. The IPCC began its seventh assessment cycle in 2023. In August 2021, the IPCC published its Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC AR6) on the physical science basis of climate change.

The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) was rolled out in a few States in 2007. From reporting 553 outbreaks in 2008, it last reported 1,714 in 2017. It was phased out in favour of a new, a web enabled, near Realtime

Electronic information system called Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP). IHIP was launched in seven States in 2018

*Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP): The Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) is a web-enabled near-real-time electronic information system that is embedded with all applicable Government of India’s e-Governance standards, Information Technology (IT), data & meta data standards to provide state-of-the-art single operating picture with geospatial information for managing disease outbreaks and related resources.

Key features of Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP)

• Real time data reporting (along through mobile application); accessible at all levels (from villages, states and central level)
• Advanced data modelling & analytical tools
• GIS enabled Graphical representation of data into integrated dashboard
• Role & hierarchy-based feedback & alert mechanisms
• Geo-tagging of reporting health facilities
• Scope for data integration with other health programs
• It will track 33 diseases (as compared to the earlier 18 diseases) and will ensure near-real-time data in digital mode.
• It will provide a health information system developed for real time, case- based information, integrated analytics, advanced visualization capability.
• Data will be provided in real time through:
• Grassroots healthcare workers through their gadgets (tablets); Doctors at the PHC (Primary Healthcare Centre)/CHC (Community Health Centre)/ DH (District Hospital) when the citizens seek healthcare; and
• Diagnostic labs which will provide data on the tests carried

*One Health Approach: One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent.

*Diseases and its causes: