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