Other Titles

Highlights • Managing pre-term births • Smoke-free legislation compliance in India • Generic medicines policies: ways forward

Contents

Contents Editorial Reducing neonatal mortality: a need to address pre‑term births Neena Raina, Rajesh Mehta........................................................................................................................................................ 1 Perspective Spiritual health, the fourth dimension: a public health perspective Neera Dhar, S. K. Chaturvedi, Deoki Nandan.............................................................................................................................. 3 Review Influencing factors for household water quality improvement in reducing diarrhoea in resource‑limited areas Thant Zin, Kamarudin D. Mudin, Than Myint, Daw K. S. Naing, Tracy Sein, Shamsul B. S......................................................... 6 Stigma related to HIV and AIDS as a barrier to accessing health care in Thailand: a review of recent literature Sian Churcher.......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Changing epidemiology of dengue in South‑East Asia Rajesh Bhatia, Aditya P. Dash, Temmy Sunyoto......................................................................................................................... 23 Original Research Promoting tobacco cessation by integrating ‘brief advice’ in tuberculosis control programme Jagdish Kaur, Kuldeep S. Sachdeva, Bhavesh Modi, Dinesh C. Jain, Lakhbir S. Chauhan, Paresh Dave, Rana J. Singh, Nevin Wilson..................................................................................................................................................... 28 Annual risk of tuberculosis infection in Sri Lanka: a low prevalent country with a high BCG vaccination coverage in the South‑East Asia Region Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Paba Palihawadana, Sunil De Alwis, Sudath Samaraweera............................................................. 34 Threat of HIV/AIDS in children: social, education and health consequences among HIV orphans and vulnerable children in Myanmar Myo‑Myo‑Mon, Saw‑Saw, Yin‑Thet‑Nu‑Oo, Khin‑Ohnmar‑San, Wai‑Wai‑Myint, San‑San‑Aye, Pyone‑Thuzar‑Nge...................... 41 Development of birth weight for gestational age charts in a Sri Lankan setting – methodological issues T. Ruwanpathirana, Dulitha N. Fernando, Hemanta Senanayake.............................................................................................. 47 Assessing compliance to smoke‑free legislation: results of a sub‑national survey in Himachal Pradesh, India Ravinder Kumar, Gopal Chauhan, Srinath Satyanarayana, Pranay Lal, Rana J. Singh, Nevin C. Wilson.................................... 52 Growth parameters at birth of babies born in Gampaha district, Sri Lanka and factors influencing them Priyantha J. Perera, Nayomi Ranathunga, Meranthi P. Fernando, Tania D. Warnakulasuriya, Rajitha A. Wickremasinghe......... 57 iv WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health | January-March 2013 | 2(‎1)‎ Report from the Field Integration of leprosy services into the General Health Service in Sri Lanka: overcoming challenges to implementation in a remote district Thushanthi S. Wijesinghe, Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe............................................................................................................... 63 Legislation an essential tool for ensuring access to medicines policy goals Michele Forzley, Jane Robertson, Anthony Smith....................................................................................................................... 69 Generic medicines policies in the Asia Pacific region: ways forward Tuan A. Nguyen, Mohamed A. A. Hassali, Andrew McLachlan................................................................................................... 72 Recent WHO Publications Birth defects in South-East Asia: a public health challenge: Situation analysis.............................. 75 Tuberculosis control in South-East Asia Region: Annual TB report 2013........................................... 75

ISSN

2224-3151

Language

English