Validation of a questionnaire on problematic use of smartphones among a rural population of West Bengal
Conclusion: Excessive mobile phone use is associated with various adverse consequences which is emerging as a public health problem in a large number of population in India. Problematic use of smartphone questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool to assess the pattern of mobile use among Indian population. (Source: Indian Journal of Public Health)
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - December 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rivu Basu Sourav Kumar Pattanayak Rajesh De Arnab Sarkar Archita Bhattacharya Manisha Das Source Type: research
Health sector reform at the COVID cross-roads: Public goods or health markets & #8211; An agenda for health systems research
Sundararaman ThiagarajanIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(4):332-339
The debate around approaches to health sector reform is one of the foundational questions around which the discipline of health policy and systems research has grown. In the immediate postwar period, health and health care were recognized as areas of market failure, requiring state action in the provision of free or subsidized services. In the eighties and nineties, due to both geopolitical and ideological reasons, this understanding changed, leading to a wave of market-based health sector reforms. An academic discourse built around neoliberal econ...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - December 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sundararaman Thiagarajan Source Type: research
Organizing the first-ever virtual IPHACON & #8211; What did we learn ?
Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Gautam RoyIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(4):329-331 (Source: Indian Journal of Public Health)
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - December 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sitanshu Sekhar Kar Gautam Roy Source Type: research
Obituary: Prof. Vinod K Srivastava
Shivendra SinghIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):326-326 (Source: Indian Journal of Public Health)
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shivendra Singh Source Type: research
COVID-19: A policy window for E-cigarette regulation
Priyadharshini Ramakrishnan, Aishwarya Ashok, Pragati B HebbarIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):324-325 (Source: Indian Journal of Public Health)
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Priyadharshini Ramakrishnan Aishwarya Ashok Pragati B Hebbar Source Type: research
Devastating impacts of COVID-19: An experience of abandoned child at a tertiary care hospital
Deepali Thakur, Navneet Dhaliwal, Sruti Sharma, Anil Kumar GuptaIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):321-323
There were many challenges faced by both health-care workers and the common population during the COVID-19 pandemic. One such case was witnessed where a migrant worker abandoned his child in a tertiary care hospital, while he was undergoing treatment for acute liver disease and was reported COVID-19 positive. The child was treated for COVID-19 in the dedicated isolation facility of the hospital as per the guidelines. Later, when the child was declared COVID-19 negative and was ready to discharge, treating doc...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Deepali Thakur Navneet Dhaliwal Sruti Sharma Anil Kumar Gupta Source Type: research
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis treated with bedaquiline: A case report in the particularly vulnerable tribal group of Madhya Pradesh, India
Prashant Mishra, R Sharma, R Yadav, Gaurav Bansal, VG Rao, Jyothi BhatIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):318-320
The management of drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) remains a challenge particularly in remote rural areas of the country. Although the treatment with wholly oral drug regimens, including bedaquiline (BDQ) and delamanid, is rolled out under the National TB Elimination Program, little is known about its coverage and the effectiveness in hard-to-reach tribal areas. The present report describes the early identification and successful management, through team effort, of a case of extensively DR TB belon...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Prashant Mishra R Sharma R Yadav Gaurav Bansal VG Rao Jyothi Bhat Source Type: research
Nonverbal closed loop communication during COVID-19 pandemic & #8211; Proposal of four tick technique
Vinodhadevi Vijayakumar, Omprakash Srinivasan, Arimanickam Ganesamoorthi, Naveenkumar VijayakumarIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):315-317
This COVID-19 pandemic has posed difficulty in verbal communication among health-care workers with usage of respirators and personal protective equipments. We propose a four tick technique for the nonverbal closed loop communication in health-care settings with limited resources such as low and middle-income countries. It is simple, easy to learn, train, effective, ensuring patient safety and can be extended to nonhealth-care settings and in electronic form. (Source: Indian Jo...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Vinodhadevi Vijayakumar Omprakash Srinivasan Arimanickam Ganesamoorthi Naveenkumar Vijayakumar Source Type: research
Cholera pulse vaccination: A possible elimination strategy for cholera in endemic countries
Neelam Taneja, Swati Gupta, Jutang Babat Ain Tiewsoh, Sonakshi SrivastavaIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):311-314
Cholera is a diarrheal disease causing major health issue in developing countries where it is endemic and causes outbreaks. India ranks first with an estimated 675,188 number of cases and 20,256 number of deaths annually with one-third of its population at risk. The two broad approaches for cholera control are improving sanitation and vaccination. Now both live and killed oral vaccines are available. Live vaccines are advantageous in respect of intestinal colonization and rapid immune response and al...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Neelam Taneja Swati Gupta Jutang Babat Ain Tiewsoh Sonakshi Srivastava Source Type: research
COVID-19 vaccine and the cold chain implications for global adoption
Manoja Kumar DasIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):307-310
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread globally with 190.8 million infected cases and 4.1 million deaths as of July 18, 2021. In absence of any definite antiviral agent availability and therapeutic armamentarium, vaccines are considered critical. While 20 vaccines are in use, about 295 vaccines are underdevelopment globally using eleven technological platforms. While the vaccines have >80% efficacy, the ultracold (−70°C and −20°C) storage and logistics requirements for some raise concerns fo...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Manoja Kumar Das Source Type: research
Influencing factors of community empowerment for domestic waste prevention and management among people living in river basin: A scoping review
This study aimed to identify factors influencing community empowerment for domestic waste prevention and management, as well as the intervention for improvement. A scoping review was conducted using databases such as Google Scholar, EBSCOhost, and PubMed with keywords such as community empowerment, domestic waste management, waste prevention, and healthy living, published from 2009 to 2019. Initially, a total of 57,339 articles were retrieved, and with inclusion and exclusion criteria, eight articles were included for this review. Based on the results, three influencing factors were found at the individual, community, and ...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Neti Juniarti Maulida Nurapipah Desy Indra Yani Citra Windani Mambang Sari Source Type: research
Factors associated with late antenatal care initiation among pregnant women attending a comprehensive healthcare facility in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
This study has found high rates of late ANC initiation among pregnant women in the study area. The factors associated with late ANC initiation should be addressed to contribute to the reduction of late ANC initiation, and this in turn can improve maternal and fetal health. (Source: Indian Journal of Public Health)
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Salda Samiah Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai Abdul Wahed Wasiq Hadia Sayam Source Type: research
Effect of vitamin-D supplementation on self-perceived health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women in Ludhiana, Punjab
Nimila Elsa Mathews, Paramita Sengupta, Anoop Ivan BenjaminIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):294-297
Postmenopausal women are routinely prescribed calcium and Vitamin-D supplements in view of their increased risk of osteoporosis and fractures. A community-based interventional study was undertaken to determine the effect of Vitamin-D supplementation on self-perceived health-related quality of life in 290 postmenopausal women over 6 months in 2015. Vitamin D (60,000 IU) was supplemented for 8 weeks. The CDC-Health-Related Quality-of-Life Questionnaire -14 was administered to the subjects at baseline and post interv...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nimila Elsa Mathews Paramita Sengupta Anoop Ivan Benjamin Source Type: research
Perceptions on the impact of a structured community-based training model in undergraduate medical training during the first phase of clinical exposure: A qualitative study from Kerala
This study observed that the remote hospital-based training has positively influenced the students. (Source: Indian Journal of Public Health)
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shaliet Rose Sebastian Geethu Mathew Abel K Samuel Johnson Avira Chacko Bichu P Babu Marina Rajan Joseph Source Type: research
Outcomes of integrating quitline methodology in tobacco cessation delivered through a model tobacco treatment clinic of a private sector hospital at Rajasthan, India
Rakesh Gupta, Garima Bhatt, Sameer Narake, Harsh Udawat, Sonu GoelIndian Journal of Public Health 2021 65(3):287-290
India despite progress in tobacco cessation delivery in government sector has lagged in private health sector. Adopting a two-fold approach of intensive intervention-based counseling with (or without) pharmacotherapy; and prescheduled proactive follow-ups over the subsequent year, this study reports 337 tobacco patients, each followed for a period of 1 year. It observed a quit rate (QR) of 40.9% for total abstinence at 1 year but with a drop of 15.9% when patients were followed up, up ...
Source: Indian Journal of Public Health - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rakesh Gupta Garima Bhatt Sameer Narake Harsh Udawat Sonu Goel Source Type: research
