Our Methodology

Healing Fields is recognized as a thought leader in the micro-health insurance industry and has enabled the creation of benchmarks and evaluation measures for the improvement of medical service delivery systems for the poor that are now in use throughout India.

Our work is guided by a research methodology that enables comprehensive analysis of the factors that affect the finance and health of poor people in India and their medical needs – in day-to-day life and in crisis.

Here is a bird’s eye view of the flight we traverse:

• using surveys
• using health risk assessment
• workshops and seminars, and,
• an ongoing commitment to health care research..

Our surveys focus on general health care needs of communities as well as special-interest and often marginalized groups - such as migrant laborers, women, children and HIV positive individuals – to ensure that Healing Fields and our partners have access to the most reliable information and statistics from which to design health care delivery.

Healing Fields conducts intensive health education training program campaigns to help develop and build capacity of health workers in the field, to create linkages in the community and enhance confidence in their knowledge and leadership.

Healing Fields recognizes that health care needs are dynamic and solutions must respond to changes in community demographics, access to resources, funding and awareness levels. As such, the organization is committed to ongoing research into best practices and sharing this information with our partners.

Healing Fields has either conducted or played a significant role in the following research papers:

“Translation of health insurance policy innovation: a study on health micro insurance for below poverty line households of Latur District, Maharashtra”

Dr. Santosh S. Puri, MBBS,

“Healthcare Information System Design and Implementation”

R. Chandraskearan,

“A Study on Causes and Effects of Hysterectomy Among Rural Women (with reference to Vemulapally Mandal of Nalgonda Dist.)”

T. Suresh Kumar,

“HFF – Migrant Labourers’ - Children Project”

“HFF APRLP Health Insurance Needs Assessment”

“Awareness, Causes & Effects of Hysterectomy Among Rural Women (with reference to Miryalaluda & Vemulapalli Mandals)”

“HFF – Health Insurance Needs Assessment: Baseline Survey Report”

“A Descriptive Study of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Healthcare Providers Concerning Universal Precautions in Preventing HIV infections in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh, South India”