Study of cold chain management system at Urban Primary Health Centers (UPHCs) of Vadodara city in Western India

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 2130
Author(s):  
Kedar Mehta ◽  
Chandresh Pandya ◽  
Paragkumar Chavda ◽  
Dipak Solanki
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Western India ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals Evaluation, Awareness, Practice and Management of Cold Chain at the Primary Health Care Centers in Coastal South India

1970 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Rao ◽  
S Naftar ◽  
S Baliga ◽  
B Unnikrishnana
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Status ◽  
Primary Health Care Centers ◽  
Maintenance Process

Introduction: Vaccination is one of the most effective disease prevention strategies and potency of vaccines is dependent on effective management of cold chain at all levels of vaccine handling. The objective was to assess the status of cold chain at the primary health centers and to assess the knowledge and practices of medical officers at these centers regarding cold chain management.Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at 70 primary health centers of Dakshina Kannada District of Coastal South India. Cold chain equipment and maintenance process was noted following direct observation on uninformed visits. Data regarding the knowledge and practices of cold chain management was obtained by interviewing the medical officers using structured pretested questionnaire.Results: Ice lined refrigerators and deep freezers were available in 69 (98.6%) and 67(95.8%) of centers. Dial thermometer was present in all the centers. Cold boxes, frozen packs and automated voltage stabilizers were available in 68(97.2%) centers. Improper vaccine storage was observed in 7 (10%) centers. Majority of medical officers had knowledge and correct practices in fields like ideal equipment, OPV administration, vaccine requiring diluents but only 47 (61.8%) medical officers had correct practice of defrosting the deep freezers.Conclusions: The availability of equipment is near universal. Improper vaccine storage practices and poor knowledge in some fields of cold chain management may adversely affect the quality of administered vaccine. Relevant training for those handling the cold chain is recommended.Key words: Cold Chain; India; Primary health center; Temperature monitoring   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jnps.v32i1.5946  J. Nepal Paediatr. Soc. Vol.32(1) 2012 19-22

scholarly journals Training of SMEs for frozen food shelf life testing and novel smart packaging application for cold chain monitoring

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theofania Tsironi ◽  
Marianna Giannoglou ◽  
Eleni Platakou ◽  
Petros Taoukis
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Life ◽  
Management System ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Food Product ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Life Testing ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Frozen Food ◽  
Selection Of

 Application of an optimized cold chain management system for frozen products can be assisted by monitoring with Time Temperature Integrators (TTI). TTI are smart labels that cumulatively show the product history in an easily measurable, time-temperature dependent change. In the IQ-Freshlabel European project enzymatic and photochromic TTI were developed and tested for frozen products. Further to the technical objectives, training activities were implemented to provide information and training to the staff of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) regarding the properties of the developed TTI and their utilization within food packaging, transport, storage and sale. In total, more than 276 European companies and consumers representing the frozen food industry, the packaging industry and food business operators were successfully trained. The objective of the present article is to describe a general methodology for frozen food shelf life testing and modelling, and the selection of appropriate TTI for specific foods. This document serves as a technical manual for SMEs, including a case study for frozen shrimp and application of enzymatic and photochromic TTI, aiming to build their capacities to understand and use TTI for frozen food products. The value of systematic modelling of the food quality kinetics as well as the response of the TTI in building an effective chill chain management system is also demonstrated. The TTI response study allows a reliable optimization and selection of TTI to be correlated to the target food product for which accurate information on temperature dependence is available.

scholarly journals Impact of Training of Primary Health Care Centers’ Vaccinators on Immunization Session Practices in Wasit Governorate, Iraq: Interventional Study

10.2196/14451 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. e14451
Author(s):  
Ali Sadiq Amily ◽  
Faris Lami ◽  
Yousef Khader
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
World Health ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Vaccine Preparation ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Centers ◽  
Health Care Centers

Background Immunization averts more than 2.5 million deaths of children annually. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund estimates of immunization coverage in Iraq in 2015 revealed a 58% coverage for the third dose of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine and a 57% coverage for the measles vaccine. High-quality immunization session practices (ISPs) can ensure safer, more effective vaccination and higher coverage rates. Objective The goal of this study was to assess the impact of training of primary health care centers’ (PHCs) vaccinators on the quality of ISPs. Methods This was an interventional study conducted on 10 (18%) PHCs in Wasit Governorate. Two PHCs were randomly selected from each health district. ISPs were assessed by direct on-job observation, using modified WHO immunization session checklists. Findings were grouped into seven domains: vaccine and diluent management, cold chain management, session equipment, registration, communication, vaccine preparation and administration, and waste management. The vaccinators were enrolled in a one-day training session using the WHO module, “Managing an Immunization Session”, and one month later a second assessment was conducted using the same tools and techniques. We then calculated the median differences of the domains' scores. Results A total of 42 vaccinators were trained, with 25 (60%) of them having graduated from technical health institutes, but only 15 (36%) having had previous training on standard ISPs. Following training, a significant improvement was noticed in three domains: vaccines and diluents management (P=.01), cold chain management (P=.01) and vaccine preparation and administration (P=.02). Conclusions The training of the PHCs' vaccinators for a single day was effective in improving some ISPs. We would recommend using this training module, or a more in-depth one, for other PHCs to improve utilization of immunization services.

Status of cold chain management among health care providers in Qatar: Primary health care center based intervention study

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mohammed Al-Hajri ◽  
Enayat Salem ◽  
Mervat Rady ◽  
Mohamed Ghaith Al-Kuwari ◽  
Hamad Eid Al-Romaihi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals The Implementation of Immunization Cold Chain Management in Surabaya City

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Alfilia Lusita ◽  
Fariani Syahrul ◽  
Ponconugroho Ponconugroho
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The City

Background: Immunization success rates can be determined by several factors. The factors that can cause occurrences of immunization preventable disease (PD3I) cases include the quality of the cold chain and invalid doses of immunization medicines. Purpose: The aim of this research was to analyze the implementation of cold chain management in the city of Surabaya. Methods: This research was conducted as a descriptive study with a cross-sectional research design. The population consisted of all primary health care centers in the city of Surabaya, and the data used were secondary data, guided by interviews with informants. Results: The majority of cold chain management personnel were found to have a medical education background of 98.42%, and primary health care workers have received cold chain-related training (100%). All primary health care equipment has a 100% cold chain. The completeness of cold chain reporting was 93.51%, and the accuracy of the cold chain reporting was 71.52%. Regarding the quality of the equipment, some vaccine refrigerators were found 12% of vaccine refrigerators were found not to be in optimal condition, and 14% of temperature monitoring devices was not activated. Conclusion: The implementation of cold chain management in public health center and the availability of equipment in the Surabaya City are going well, although there are still some problems such as undisciplined reporting and inadequate quality of tools for cold chain implementation as well as the discovery of vaccine refrigerators easily leaks, and their temperature can rise easily.

scholarly journals Evaluasi Cold Chain Management Vaksin di Puskesmas Kabupaten Jember

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Abdul Syakur ◽  
Christyana Sandra ◽  
Candra Bumi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Vaccine Preventable Disease ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Preventable Disease ◽  
Management Evaluation ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Prevention Method

Immunization is the most cost-effective health prevention method to suppress the incidence of vaccine-preventable disease. Immunization Program in Jember district is still not optimal with many vaccine-preventable disease cases found. Another problem found in Jember is the management of logistics vaccine that is still not optimal. Based on the activity plan report of ORI Difteri 2018, it is known that the logistics needs of some vaccines do not comply with the allocation received by Jember regency of the province. This condition This was a descriptive study using questionaire and observations data as well as the documentation study of the annual Report of Health Pharmacy Installation (IFK) year 2019. Respondent to this study were immunization officers at primary health care of Jember District. The result of cold chain management evaluation is known that the most are good enaugh. In some primary health care are still hampered insufficient means so that the maintenance of vaccine is still not optimalBased on the result that cold chain management evaluation, the knowledge officer on cold chain management is still lacking good. In the some primary health care, it is known that the equipment canstraints are unavailable. While in the conformity of temperature only one primary helath care is not recommended. And stirage activities are mostly in accordance with SOP.   

Knowledge, attitude, and practice of cold chain management among primary health care workers in Giwa, Northwestern Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Bilkisu Nwankwo ◽  
ShuaibuJoga Joga ◽  
AbdulhakeemA Olorukooba ◽  
Lawal Amadu ◽  
MaryO Onoja-Alexander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice
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