Highlights • Managing pre-term births • Smoke-free legislation compliance in India • Generic medicines policies: ways forward
Citation
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia. (2013). WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, Volume 2, Issue 1, January-March 2013, Volume 2, Issue 1, January-March 2013. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/204140
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
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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