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Volume 7, Issue 5 (Suppl) J Community Med Health Educ
ISSN: 2161-0711 JCMHE, an open access journal Public Health Congress 2017
November 13-14, 2017
November 13-14, 2017 Osaka, Japan
3rd World Congress on
Public Health, Nutrition & Epidemiology
Screening for non-communicable disease risk factors at a workplace in corporate organization, Delhi, India
Kunda Mendhekar, Sushil kumar Shrivastav, Naveen kumar Gupta and Gajendar Singh
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited, Delhi, India
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for two-thirds of all deaths globally. Health check-up camp and
Health Tips have the requisite expertise to initiate and lead NCD risk factor screening and prevention programs. The workplace
can provide an ideal setting for Health check-up camps to screen for risk factors and implement prevention programs.
Objective: This study was designed to identify the common modifiable risk factors for NCD among employees of a corporate
institution.
Methods: A cross-sectional study of NCD risk factors was conducted in corporate institution, Delhi, India. Employees were
evaluated using the World Health Organization STEPS Instrument (Steps I and II). The prevalence of risk factors was expressed
as frequencies and percentages.
Results: A total of 1086 employees (response rate 36.2%) participated in the study. Poor dietary habits, suboptimal blood
pressure, random blood sugar level and physical inactivity were identified as the most common modifiable NCD risk factors
in this population.
Conclusion: Knowledge of NCD risk factors can be used by health care workers to implement health promotion programs in
the workplace as a means of reducing NCD-related economic and social burdens in organization.
Biography
Kunda Mendhekar has her expertise in assessing the magnitude of communicable and non- communicable disease in the community and to assess the community
to adopt preventive and curative measure for the same and to demonstrate the professional skill to the community. She has completed her MBA in Health Care
Administration from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi (2014-2016), Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) at National Institute of Communicable
Disease, Delhi (2006 to 2008) and completed her MBBS from Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai in 1991.
Kunda Mendhekar et al., J Community Med Health Educ 2017, 7:5 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C1-030