Browsing WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health by Issue Date
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-01)Background: Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major causes of childhood morbidity andmortality; however, it is relatively a neglected disease. Hence, we explored the risk factors forchildhood TB.Methods: Ninty-five ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-01)Background: Self-medication is widely practised in many developing countries. The determinantsof self-medication need to be understood to design adequate medicine information policies andpatient-dispenser education strategies. ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)During 2001-2011, multidisciplinary teams from the Institute of Epidemiology,Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,Bangladesh(icddr,b) identified sporadic cases and ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)Background: Despite its ill effects, betel quid chewing is a common practice in the South-EastAsia Region. However, so far no large-scale study had been conducted, hence, this study wasaimed at estimating the extent of ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)Background: Rural people seek medical treatment for snakebite at peripheral health care facilities.Hence, identification of the characteristics, which can be used at peripheral levels of health careas reliable predictors ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)Background: About 16 billion injections are administered each year worldwide, and at least halfof them are unsafe. India contributes 25% to 30% of the global injection load. A majority ofcurative injections are unnecessary. ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)Background: Tobacco use contributes significantly to the diseases burden in India. Very fewtobacco users spontaneously quit. Therefore, beginning 2002, a network of 19 tobacco cessationclinics (TCCs) was set up over a ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)Background: The routine use of verbal autopsy in health-care delivery settings has been limited.Hence, the performance of neonatal and postneonatal verbal autopsy (VA) tools developed at theComprehensive Rural Health ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)Sustainable sources of funding for health programmes have been explored by manycountries. In Thailand, the Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) was established in 2001 asan innovative state agency for funding health ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)Identification of risk factors through screening is an important tool in the fight against chronicdiseases. We have used a unique model, named Saantwanam (to console) in Malayalam language,for health screening in Kerala, ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-04)Background: Enteric fever continues to be a public health problem in many countries includingIndia. Emergence of the multidrug resistant strains of S. enterica serovar Typhi may render treatmentwith antibiotics ineffective. ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-07)Background: The Intrauterine Device (IUD) is the least popular method of contraception for familyplanning in Nepal. In addition, discontinuation in the early days after insertion is very high andinformation related to ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-07)A prospective, quasi-experimental study was carried out in 2009 at urban health centres (UHCs)of five townships of Mandalay, Myanmar, to improve the skill of midwives (MWs) in diagnosis andreferral of pre-eclampsia (PE) ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-07)Background: Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a major public health problem in India. When the firstcase was reported in 1955, the disease was restricted to south India. The disease spread to northIndia in 1978 from where ...
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(World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2012-07)Background: India is amongst the top 10 countries in the world currently with the highest burdenof pregnant women living with HIV and nearly 80% of these women do not receive antiretroviral(ARV) drugs to prevent parent-to-child ...