PUBLICATIONS
The rising burden of chronic conditions among urban poor: a three-year follow-up survey in Bengaluru, India
Dear all Greetings from Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru!! I am sharing a paper that I co-authored with my colleagues from IPH working on urban health issues. The paper published in BMC Health Services Research an international journal is a 3-year follow-up on...
Implications of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment Using the WHO/ISH Risk Prediction Charts in Rural India
Implications of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment Using the WHO/ISH Risk Prediction Charts in Rural India Arvind Raghu et al PLOS One Abstract Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in India is currently assessed using the World Health Organization/International...
Patient and Provider Reported Reasons for Lost to Follow Up in MDRTB Treatment: A Qualitative Study from a Drug Resistant TB Centre in India
Patient and Provider Reported Reasons for Lost to Follow Up in MDRTB Treatment: A Qualitative Study from a Drug Resistant TB Centre in India Rajesh D. Deshmukh et al PLOS One Abstract Introduction Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) is emerging public health...
Equity in utilization of health care services: Perspective of pregnant women in southern Odisha, India
Equity in utilization of health care services: Perspective of pregnant women in southern Odisha, India Meerambika Mahapatro,IJMR 2015 Background & objectives: Inequity in the use of health care services is an important factor affecting the maternal and child...
Coverage and Financial Risk Protection for Institutional Delivery
Dear All PFA the paper entitled "Coverage and Financial Risk Protection for Institutional Delivery: How Universal is Provision of Maternal Health Care in India?" published recently in PLoS One. This may be of interest in view of increasing investments being made in...
Article Utilization of outpatient care in Odisha: Factors determining the choice of Public or Private Health care Facility
Dear All Pl find attached an Article on Utilization of outpatient care in Odisha: factors determining the choice of Public or Private Health care Facility. This is based on a primary study conducted in the two districts of Odisha. An abstract is given here for your...
Systematic Review on Economic Evaluation in India
Dear All PFA "A Systematic Review on the State of Economic Evaluation for Health Care in India" which we published recently in the Applied Health Economic and Health Policy. In this paper we review the existing evidence, evaluate its quality and look at trends over...
A useful systematic review paper from BMC Public Health
Dear All, Greetings from MAMTA-HIMC, New Delhi (India). Please find attached, " Community based reproductive health interventions for young married couples in resource-constrained settings: a systematic review" , published recently by BMC Public Health Journal, on 9...
Honouring the value of people in public health: a different kind of p-value
Honouring the value of people in public health: a different kind of p-value David Bishai , Bull World Health Organ. 2015 When faced with a complex public health problem there is a natural urge to find solutions. We hire consultants, gather data, test hypotheses and...
Posting and transfer: key to fostering trust in government health services
Posting and transfer: key to fostering trust in government health services Kabir Sheikh et al Human Resources for Health 2015 Abstract Appropriate deployment or posting and transfer (P&T) of health workers – placing the right people in the right positions at the...