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The Department of Pediatrics had organized a Contact course for pediatricians registered for the "Certificate Course in Adolescent Pediatrics" at Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Pimpri, Pune from 27th Feb to 5th March 2017.
As a part of this course a workshop for prevention of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) was conducted for 8th std. students in Dr. D. Y. Patil School in Pimpri. Total 116 students (Boys & Girls) actively participated in this workshop. Dr. Shailaja Mane ,Dr.Dhananjay Shukla conducted this workshop. Workstations of Healthy Food ,Exercise and Reading Food labels were taken alongwith students and faculties (Students of Course in Adolescent Health) which were very much interactive and appreciated by all.
NCD child has given a grant to the NCD task force of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics for conducting a pilot project for creating awareness for promoting physical activity and healthy eating for prevention of NCD in children and adolescents. The first brain storming session for this project was held in Sir Gangaram Hospital New Delhi on 13th Feb 2017 .This was conducted by Dr Vasudev , Delhi - Project Director and Dr Rekha Harish -, Jammu , Academic Co-ordinator from IAP .The Meeting was organised by Dr Latika Bhalla AACCI Delhi coordinator , The meeting was also attended by Dr Shailaja Mane- AACCI Pune Coordinator , Dr Sunita Manchanda -AACCI core faculty Delhi and Dr Cherukuri Nirmla from Hyderabad and Dr Anju Virmani Delhi .This school project will be conducted in 5 different cities i.e. Delhi, Jammu, Hyderabad, Mumbai/Pune. In this brainstorming session of 4 hours a uniform format for all workshops was finalised The FGD questionnaire designed by Dr Swati Bhave Executive Director AACCI for the project was approved.
On 14th Feb a pilot workshop was conducted in a private school from 8.30 am to 10.45 am. This was organised by Dr Latika Bhalla 65 students from 9th STD were enrolled. The healthy life style questionnaire used by AACCI for last many years was used for the workshop The format was lectures followed by workstations on 3 topics
1) promoting physical activity
2) choosing healthy food.
3) learning to read food labels.
Good cooperation was given by school and the students were very enthusiastic and interactive. The faculty was all the above members and in addition IAP member Dr Arun Photedar from Delhi
A workshop for teachers was organised by PHFI in association with AACCI, HRIDAY, and NCD Child etc. More than 100 teachers and students from various public and private schools in Delhi actively participated in this interactive workshop. Dr. Latika Bhalla, Consultant, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi and Dr Shailaja Mane, AACCI coordinator Pune & Professor of Pediatrics, DY Patil Medical College, and Pimpri Pune had given talks in it. Ms. Kiran Patel, Program Manager, Global Child Health, Department of International Child Health American Academy of Pediatrics had also participated in this session.
Kiran Patel NCD child USA with AACCI Delhi Coordinator Dr Latika Bhalla and AACCI Pune Coordinator Dr Shailaja Mane
AACCI was represented by Pune Coordinator Dr Shailaja Mane who is Professor of Pediatrics at DY Patil Medical College Pimpri Pune and Dr Latika Bhalla AACCI coordinator Delhi and Consultant Gangaram Hospital Delhi. Other stake holders were PFHI, Hridaya International -NCD child. Plans were discussed for future collaborations.
In 2016, the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) was granted the NCD Child Advocacy in Action program supported by the NCD Child to advance NCD prevention in adolescents in the country by engaging pediatricians' and adolescents in the efforts collaboratively with AACCI and IAP.
The aim of this project is to strengthen the efforts towards obesity reduction and NCD prevention in line with India's adopted NCD targets, by engaging pediatricians in India and enabling schools to adopt health promoting policies and activities.
As the first activity of this project a sensitisation workshop for pediatricians on the topic "Combating NCDs at an early age" was organised on 7th December from 2:00 to 5:00 PM at Sir Gangaram Hospital. The workshop was collaboratively organised by PHFI, HRIDAY, AACCI, Sir Gangaram Hospital, IAP, NCD Task Force and IAP Delhi.
Dr. Latika Bhalla, Consultant-Sir Ganga Ram hospital and AACCI coordinator - Delhi , talked about the expected outcomes of the collaboration.
PRB -The Population Reference Bureau held an event for the release of their publications on Non-communicable Diseases in Asia: Young People are Key to Curbing a Growing Epidemic.
Dr. Swati Bhave was invited to deliver a talk "Starting NCD Interventions Early: A Way Forward". This lecture was delivered by Dr.Shailaja Mane on behalf of Dr. Swati Bhave. This lecture also included the work AACCI has been doing in promoting the concept of Healthy life style for prevention of Life style diseases in schools .This was appreciated by many in the audience. Many organizations showed interest to work jointly with AACCI.
The Members from AACCI - Delhi group who attended were Dr. Sangeeta Yadav, Dr. Suneeta Manchanda from Gurgaon and Dr. Latika Bhalla.
Dr Swati Y Bhave Executive Director AACCI was invited to participate in this conference. Dr. Shailaja Mane, AACCI - Pune coordinator represented AACCI in this conference. This conference was organized by WHO - Country office for India and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
AACCI and HRIDAY work on doing programs in schools. HRIDAY has done pioneering work on Tobacco Prevention. AACCI conducts programs on prevention on life style diseases using the LSE -Life Skill Education Approach.
In the workshop and Over view of NCD issues related to children and young people & Experience of AACCI school based awareness programs was delivered by Dr Swati Y Bhave AACCI. Radhika Srivastava from HRIDAY spoke on the Public health policies related to NCD’s in this age group.
This was followed by an interactive participatory session using role plays and group discussions from AACCI LSE module for Obesity prevention. The faculty was Dr Swati Y Bhave, Dr Sangeeta Yadav AACCI core faculty, New Delhi Dr Shailaja Mane AACCI core faculty, Pune .They conducted a faculty role play to show various ways of saying no to peer pressure.
This was followed by group discussion on how to plan a healthy menu for a school party and case scenario on how to encourage physical activity .The co faculty were from AACCI - Delhi- Dr Harish Pemde, Dr Anjali Saxena, Dr Latika Bhalla, Dr Sunita Manchanda.
The audience very much appreciated and enjoyed these sessions
Dr Swati Bhave was faculty and also presented school project of NCD child done in collaboration with AACCI in St Mary's school in Dwarka Delhi in 2015
AACCI was invited to participate by global body - NCD alliance (www.ncdalliance.org ) for an important meeting of NGO’s in India, working on prevention of NCD Non-communicable diseases .AACCI was represented by the Executive director Dr Swati Y Bhave who brought to the table the Importance of beginning the prevention in the child and adolescent age group itself
AACCI was invited to participate for a WHO/SEARO for this important meeting of NGO's in South East Asia Countries , working on prevention of NCD Non-communicable diseases .The mission of AACCI is prevention of Life style diseases by a Life skill education based approach and has been working in schools, colleges, parents and teachers since its inception in 2007.
AACCI was represented by the Executive director Dr Swati Y Bhave who brought to the table the Importance of beginning the prevention in the child and adolescent age group itself. Dr Swati Bhave also represented NCD child as the member of its advisory council. AACCI is a member of NCD Child (www.ncdchild.org)
Left to right: at WHO SEARO meeting Dr Swati Y Bhave Executive Director AACCI Navmi Naik Program Manager American Cancer Society Sutapa Biswas Executive Director Cancer Foundation of India.
The International Pediatric Association (IPA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics has launched a Global Tobacco control program .Dr Swati Bhave the executive Director is the lead coordinator. The launch of this program was done with a community event organised by AACCI in collaboration with KJ Somaiya College Mumbai & Mumbai Branch of IAP. There were more than 200 people in the audience and consisted of Medical and nursing students and students from other subjects from KJ Somaiya colleges. The speakers were Dr Ruth Etzel from USA who is Technical advisor for IPA on Environmental issues and she spoke on effect of second hand tobacco smoke on infants and children. Dr Swati Bhave, Technical advisor for IPA on Adolescent Health spoke on effect of tobacco on teens .There was a very interactive Q/A session. The winners of the poster competition held were declared.
The International Pediatric Association (IPA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics has launched a Global Tobacco control program .Dr Swati Bhave the executive Director is the lead coordinator. The launch of this program was done with a community event organised by AACCI in collaboration with KJ Somaiya College Mumbai & Mumbai Branch of IAP. There were more than 200 people in the audience and consisted of Medical and nursing students and students from other subjects from KJ Somaiya colleges. The speakers were Dr Ruth Etzel from USA who is Technical advisor for IPA on Environmental issues and she spoke on effect of second hand tobacco smoke on infants and children. Dr Swati Bhave, Technical advisor for IPA on Adolescent Health spoke on effect of tobacco on teens .There was a very interactive Q/A session. The winners of the poster competition held were declared.
