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Academic community medicine in 21 st century: Challenges and opportunities |
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Rajesh Kumar DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45367 PMID:19876446 |
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Revitalizing rural health care delivery: Can rural health practitioners be the answer? |
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Kapil Yadav, Prashant Jarhyan, Vivek Gupta, Chandrakant S Pandav DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45368 PMID:19876447 |
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Public health in British India: A brief account of the history of medical services and disease prevention in colonial India  |
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Muhammad Umair Mushtaq DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45369 PMID:19876448 |
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Cash incentives for institutional delivery: Linking with antenatal and post natal care may ensure 'Continuum of care' in India |
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Chandrakant Lahariya DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45370 PMID:19876449 |
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Prevalence of ischemic heart disease among urban population of Siliguri, West Bengal  |
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Sukanta Mandal, Joyti Bikash Saha, Sankar Chandra Mandal, Rudra Nath Bhattacharya, Manashi Chakraborty, Partha Pratim Pal DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.44518 PMID:19876450Objectives: To determine the prevalence of ischemic heart disease and the associated risk factors among the urban population of Siliguri. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey of a random sample of the population aged ≥40 years old in the Municipal Corporation area of Siliguri. Study variables were age, sex, occupation, addiction, food habit, physical activity, body mass index, blood pressure, and electrocardiogram change. Results: Out of 250 individuals who took part in this study, 29 (11.6%) had ischemic heart disease (IHD) and 118 (47.2%) had hypertension. Males had a higher (13.5%) prevalence of IHD than females (9.4%). About 5% of the patients had asymptomatic IHD. IHD among the study population is significantly associated with hypertension and smoking. |
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Quality-of-life assessment of family planning adopters through user perspectives in the district of Karimnagar |
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Avasarala Kameswararao DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.42374 PMID:19876451Background: Small families adopting family planning are usually considered happy families. They are expected to lead a better qualitative life. Quality-of-life (QOL) is routinely assessed for knowing patients' health status. Recently, the QOL concept has become increasingly popular for evaluating the impact of public health interventions. Hitherto, QOL is usually assessed by means of program achievements or indicators, which may sometimes be misleading. Hence, the new culture of QOL assessment by means of user perspectives is now becoming popular. Research Questions: 1) Is the quality-of-life of family planning (FP) adopters better than that of non-FP adopters? 2) Are the user perspectives helpful in QOL assessment? Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out among 50 FP adopting families and 50 non-FP adopting families from the village of Vutoor and the city of Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh. Sampling Methods: Random sampling, Proportions and Chi square test. Results: Program perspectives revealed a better standard of living for FP adopters because they have amenities like housing, television, and vehicles and less mortality and morbidity ( P < 0.001). However, they lack positive feelings towards life, general adaptation, personal relationships, and leisure opportunities. Finally, self-assessment by FP adopters themselves revealed no significant increase in their qualitative life after family planning ( P = 0.05). Conclusions: While assessing the impact of a health program on quality-of-life, multiple methods of assessments including user perspectives are better than program indicators alone.
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Obesity prevalence in Gaziantep, Turkey |
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Birgul Ozcirpici, Ferhat Coskun, Saime Sahinoz, Servet Ozgur, Ali Ihsan Bozkurt DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45371 PMID:19876452Background: Obesity is associated with reduced quality of life, development of serious chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, increased medical care costs, and premature death. Environmental effects, especially feeding habits may cause hyperinsulinemia and obesity. A Healthy People 2010 objective is to reduce the proportion of adults who are obese to 15%. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 1647 persons in a sample representing Gaziantep, Turkey. Over the selected 329 houses, 310 houses were reached (94.2%) and data about 1315 related persons was collected. The body mass index (BMI) shows the relationship between the weight and the height of people, calculated by the ratio of mass by kg over the square value of height measure. In statistical analyses chi-square, student's t -test and logistic regression analysis were used. Results: The mean BMI increased with time for both sex, whereas decreased for 60+ age group. The fastest increase for both sex was seen while transition from 18 year to 19-29 age groups occurred. Another increase in women was in 30-39 age group; BMI=25.08±4.39 in 19-29 ages whilst BMI=29.02±5.79 in 30-39 ages. The increases in both sex in other age groups were not as much as in this group. Conclusion: Obesity is not only a problem in the Gaziantep but is also a major health concern in Europe and other regions of the world. As an accepted method against obesity, life-style changes should be put into use from childhood supported in school and family life. |
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Study on patient satisfaction in the government allopathic health facilities of Lucknow district, India  |
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Ranjeeta Kumari, MZ Idris, Vidya Bhushan, Anish Khanna, Monika Agarwal, SK Singh DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45372 PMID:19876453Background: The outcome of any disease is influenced by the decisions to seek care, timely arrival at appropriate diagnostic and treatment services and the receipt of adequate care from service providers. Satisfaction in service provision is increasingly being used as a measure of health system performance. Satisfaction manifests itself in the distribution, access and utilization of health services. Objectives: To determine the areas and causes of low satisfaction among the patients and suggest methods for improvement. Materials and Methods: Multistage stratified random sampling was used to select the government allopathic health facilities of Lucknow district and systematic random sampling for the selection of the patients for the interview. Results: The accessibility was difficult in 42% patients and waiting time more than 30 min for 62.5% of those attending the tertiary level health facility. The satisfaction with the duration of the outpatient department (OPD) (64.6%) and the presence of signboards (46.6%) was also found to be low. The overall satisfaction regarding the doctor-patient communication was more than 60% at all the levels of health care facilities but that with the examination and consultation was less than 60% at the primary level as compared to more than 80% elsewhere. The most important motivating factor for the visit to the tertiary (48.2%) and secondary level (71.9%, 67.1%) of health facilities was the faith on doctors or health facility. Conclusions: The level of patient satisfaction is severely deficient in several areas and needs improvement for the achievement of optimal health of the people. |
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Validity of a surveillance system for childhood injuries in a rural block of Tamilnadu |
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M Sivamani, V Balraj, JP Muliyil DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.44650 PMID:19876454Background: Childhood injuries are increasingly getting the attention of public health experts following WHO's report on global burden of diseases. Surveillance is an important component of control of any disease and effectiveness of the surveillance system depends upon completeness of the information about occurrence of the health related events to the public health authorities. Aims: This study aimed to set up a surveillance system for childhood injuries and validate it by a survey and thereafter estimate the incidence of childhood injuries using capture recapture method. Settings and Design: Observational study design. Materials and Methods: Passive surveillance system for childhood injuries was created for 26,811 children of less than fourteen years of Kaniyambadi block and it was validated by cross sectional study at the end of surveillance period. Using these two independent information systems, capture recapture method was applied to find out the possible incidence of injuries in the given population at a given period of time. Statistics: Chi square, Lincoln Peterson formula for capture re-capture method. Results: Surveillance and survey for childhood injuries identified 13.59/1000 child-years (CI: 11.86 -15.32) and 341.89/1000 child-years (CI: 254.46-429.33) of injury rates, respectively. Conclusion: Passive surveillance system underreports childhood injuries markedly but it does identify childhood injuries of serious nature. |
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Prevalence of Goiter in rural area of Belgaum district, Karnataka |
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R Kamath, Vinod Bhat, RSP Rao, Acharya Das, KS Ganesh, Asha Kamath DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45373 PMID:19876455Background: To determine the prevalence of goiter and to study the factors influencing goiter among people of the rural community in Karnataka state, a community based study. Setting and Study Design: A cross sectional study was carried out to find out the prevalence of goiter in a rural community of Belgaum district. The study was conducted by house-to-house survey for a period of one month. Materials and Methods: Two villages (Handiganur and Gundwad) were selected randomly from Belgaum and Raibag taluks of Belgaum district. All the family members in each household were examined for the presence of goiter using WHO criteria. Iodine content of the salt sample obtained from each household was estimated by using spot testing kits. Information regarding the determinants of goiter was collected and recorded in a pre tested proforma. Data collected was analyzed using SPSS statistical packages. Results: The prevalence of goiter among rural population was found to be 16.6%. Goiter of grade 1 was 15.7% and that of grade 2 was 0.9%. Prevalence among males and females were 7.2% and 21.8%, respectively. The prevalence of goiter was highest among adolescents. Estimation of iodine content in the salt sample revealed that 50% of samples had adequate iodine content (> 15 ppm). Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis revealed that females of the age group 10-49 years were independently associated with goiter. Conclusion: Prevalence of goiter was relatively high and therefore constituted a public health problem in this region. |
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Musculoskeletal disorders: Epidemiology and treatment seeking behavior of secondary school students in a Nigerian community |
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Olayinka O Adegbehingbe, Adesegun O Fatusi, Caleb A Adegbenro, Opeyemi O Adeitan, Ganiyu O Abass, Akintomiwa Akintunde DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.44520 PMID:19876456Background: Epidemiological information paucity exists on musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) among secondary school students in Nigeria. We aimed to determine prevalence, pattern, and treatment seeking behaviors (TSB) of MSD in south-west Nigeria. Materials and Methods: A school-based cross sectional study was conducted in four randomly selected secondary schools in Ile-Ife in 2007. All the students were screened for MSD using interviewer-administered questionnaire and physical examination, which involved use of scoliometer and goniometer. Affected children were recommended for treatment and plain radiography taken. Results: A total of 133 students had 204 MSD representing 3.0% prevalence among the 4,441students screened. Eighty-one (60.9%) students had congenital disorders and 52 (39.1%) were acquired. The lower limbs (93.1%) were most commonly affected and 87 (65.4%) students presented with knee deformity. Other abnormalities were limb length discrepancy 6.8%, scoliosis 4.4%, pes planus 3.9%, and poliomyelitis 2.9%. One hundred students (75.2%) had no form of treatment, 18.8% receive treatment in the hospital, 3.7% in traditional healing home and 2.3% in church. Age, family, and school type were significant factors ( P <0.05) in health seeking behavior. The factors affecting treatment outcome were the place of treatment, hospital specific treatment, and reasons for stopping treatment. Conclusion: Treatable cases constitute a large proportion of MSD among secondary school students, but TSB was generally poor. Parental socio-economic and health services factors were related to the health seeking behavior. Strengthening of school health services and improved linkage with orthopedic services, community education on MSD, and education of all cadres of health professionals are recommended. |
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Valvular heart disease in Indian subcontinent: Social issues |
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Ramachandran Meenakshisundaram, Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45374 PMID:19876457 |
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Community based project work as a teaching tool: Students' perception |
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Varsha M Vaidya, Jayashree S Gothankar DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45375 PMID:19876458 |
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The prevalence of reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases among married women in the reproductive age group in a rural area |
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Savita Sharma, BP Gupta DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45376 PMID:19876459 |
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Gender preference and its implications on reproductive behavior of mothers in a rural area of West Bengal |
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Indira Dey, Ramendra Narayan Chaudhuri DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45377 PMID:19876460 |
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Modern practice era: The purpose of physician's sample |
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Sugam A Bhatnagar, Jagannath V Dixit DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45378 PMID:19876461 |
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BOOK REVIEW |
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A review of preventive and social medicine - By Chandrakant Lahariya, India |
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Binod Kumar Patro |
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Health status of traffic police personnel in Brahmapur city |
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DM Satapathy, TR Behera, RM Tripathy DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45380 PMID:19876462 |
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LETTERS TO EDITOR |
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Pattern of maternal mortality in a tertiary care hospital of Patna, Bihar |
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Rashmi Singh, Nivedita Sinha, Krishnadas Bhattacharyya, Rama Ram DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45381 PMID:19876463 |
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Students' feedback concerning the IMNCI strategy |
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Mamta Rani, Abhay Kavishvar, Ratan K Srivastava DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45382 PMID:19876464 |
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Challenges in organizing trauma care systems in India |
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Amit Gupta, Ekta Gupta DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45383 PMID:19876465 |
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Review of epidata entry and analysis freewares |
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Shavinder Singh DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45384 PMID:19876466 |
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Isolation of Vibrio cholerae El Tor Serotype Inaba in 2006 and the most common phage type of V. cholerae in Mumbai |
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Anuradha De, Meenakshi Mathur DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45385 PMID:19876467 |
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Can echocardiography be used for screening of rheumatic heart disease? |
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Harshal Tukaram Pandve, JS Bhawalkar, Amitav Banerjee, Pankaja Bhuyar DOI:10.4103/0970-0218.45386 PMID:19876468 |
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