Context: Electronic health (e health) initiatives are being employed in various health programs for disease monitoring. Very few such studies have been conducted in India, so this study was planned. Aims: Assess feasibility and usefulness of e health interventions for health workers, ASHA (accredited social health activist) in screening and management of hypertension. Setting and Design: Prospective observational cohort study. ASHA's were recruited in two selected villages of Rajasthan and trained to use this technology. Methods and Material: A web-based application was developed for use on portable device (tablet) to screen and diagnose hypertension, provide health education focused on diet, physical exercise and promote adherence to therapies by repeated sessions of one-to-one health education. Statistical analysis was done by Excel. Results: With the use of e health initiatives, among population above 18yrs, we found 19.1% hypertensives (464/2430) with 46.5% new cases of hypertension and 38.9 % (945/2430) prehypertensive. Mean age of hypertensives was 52.6 yrs. ± 15.2 and 36.8 yrs. ± 14.2 for prehypertensive and highly significant (p < 0.001). Mean systolic blood pressure level of hypertensives decreased from 147.14 Hg ±13.86 to 133.3 Hg ±13.07 and for prehypertensive from 123.18 mm Hg ± 4.5 to 117.55 mm Hg ± 6.9 after follow up, the difference in change was highly significant (P < 0.001). Also, could start 27.4% hypertensives on treatment, while 50.2% were already on treatment. Conclusion: Training ASHA worker in e health technology is feasible and can assist in screening and management of diseases.

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“Long Life for All” being the theme for this year’s World Immunization Week 2022, celebrated annually in the last week of April (24 to 30th April) aims to unite people on the idea that vaccines make it possible for people to pursue their dreams, protect loved ones and live a long and healthy life. It aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization is one of the world’s most successful and cost-effective health interventions available to avert vaccine preventable diseases and deaths. Since at least the 1400s, people have looked for ways to protect themselves against infectious disease. From the practice of “variolation” in the 15th century to today’s mRNA vaccines, immunization has a long history.For over two centuries, vaccines have helped in keeping people healthy starting from the first vaccine that was developed to provide protection against smallpox to the latest ones that are being used to prevent COVID-19.

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