Preventive Health


Prevention is better than cure. Students Health Home always focuses on disease prevention and tries to eliminate the root causes of illness. Penetration at community level by learned students and trained teachers is the basic approach to create awareness on preventable diseases. For this purpose STUDENTS HEALTH HOME regularly arranges workshops, seminars and training programmes.


Since last decade preventive mental health has been prioritized. A number of group sessions for students and workshops for parents and teachers have been arranged to address issues like anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, digital addiction etc. Awareness about vector borne diseases, water borne diseases, blood disorders like Thalassaemia and its prevention, healthy food habits, immunization, menstrual health, adolescent issues, HIV & AIDS, Covid care in household situation and Covid warrior training, prevention of Cancer, lifestyle modification and many other issues are being addressed timely. Experts and institutions in relevant fields contribute voluntarily in these awareness and capacity building programmes under the leadership of SHH.


Several training modules on preventive health have been designed and updated on regular basis to incorporate the latest scientific knowledge. These are very useful to build capacity and sensitize the target population in an effective manner. Students Health Home regularly publishes and distributed campaign materials like stamp, posters, pamphlets, books and leaflets on different preventable health issues. In digital era the materials are modified accordingly. Students Health Home is ready to support any organization, Government or Non Government without any prejudice by means of campaign material, training modules and qualified resource persons for the causes of preventive health.