Community Health Cell, Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA)

Community Health Cell is the functional unit of the Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA). CHC aims to bring about a change in paradigm for community health action, from:

• the bio-medical model to the socio-community model
• individual to community focus
• people as patients or beneficiaries to persons as equal participants
• providing to enabling and empowering
• drugs and technology to educational and social processes
• professional control to demystification, and social control
  

CHC supports community health action through:

•  Information and advisory service straining and interactive discussions
•  Participatory reflections and reviews
• Research and evaluation
• Peer group support
• Networking and solidarity
• Policy research, advocacy and action