Other Titles

Highlights • Why are Nepal’s maternity services underused? • Cardiometabolic-risk indices for South Asians • Oseltamivir-resistant influenza A(‎H1N1)‎pdm09 in India

Contents

CONTENTS Editorial Why do women deliver in facilities, or not? Martin W Weber .................................................................................................................... 129 Perspective Unintended consequences of regulating traditional medicine Sonya Davey ..........................................................................................................................................131 Review Why women do not utilize maternity services in Nepal: a literature review Rajendra Karkee, Andy H Lee, Colin W Binns ......................................................................................135 Original research Appropriate anthropometric indices to identify cardiometabolic risk in South Asians DS Prasad, Zubair Kabir, JP Suganthy, AK Dash, BC Das ...................................................................142 Diabetes in rural Pondicherry, India: a population-based study of the incidence and risk factors Arun Gangadhar Ghorpade, Sumanth M Majgi, Sonali Sarkar, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Gautam Roy, PH Ananthanarayanan, AK Das ..................................................149 Effects of education and income on cognitive functioning among Indians aged 50 years and older: evidence from the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (‎SAGE)‎ Wave 1 (‎2007–2010)‎ Rashmita Basu ......................................................................................................................................156 Integrating adolescent-friendly health services into the public health system: an experience from rural India Sunil Mehra, Ruchi Sogarwal and Murari Chandra ..............................................................................165 Knowledge and opinion about smoke-free laws and second-hand smoke among hospitality venue managers in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, India Vinay K Gupta, Monika Arora, Indrani Sharma, Gaurang P Nazar, Bhavesh Modi, Deepti Singh, Christopher Millett, K Srinath Reddy .....................................................................................................174 July–December | Volume 2 | Issue 3–4 WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health | July–iv December 2013 | 2 (‎3–4)‎ Research briefs Oseltamivir-resistant influenza A(‎H1N1)‎pdm09 virus: first reported case from India Varsha A Potdar, Vikram V Padbidri, Mandeep S Chadha ...................................................................181 Tetanus: still a public health problem in India – observations in an infectious diseases hospital in Kolkata Alakes Kumar Kole, Rammohan Roy, Dalia Chanda Kole ....................................................................184 Policy and practice Veterinary public health capacity-building in India: a grim reflection of the developing world’s underpreparedness to address zoonotic risks Manish Kakkar, Syed Shahid Abbas, Ashok Kumar, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, Kavya Sharma, Purvi Mehta Bhatt, Sanjay Zodpey ..............................................................................187 Knowledge brokering for evidence-based urban health policy: a proposed framework Shamsuzzoha B Syed, Katharine A Allen, Adnan A Hyder ...................................................................192 Report from the field Fiscal competition in health spending among local governments in the Philippines Uma Kelekar ..........................................................................................................................................198 Letter Trends in tobacco use in Nepal .......................................................................................... 201 Recent WHO Publications Strengthening public health for human development: reflections of Dr Samlee Plianbangchang WHO Regional Director for South-East 2004–2014 ......... 203 Strengthening public health in the South-East Asia Region: selected speeches by Dr Samlee Plianbangchang WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia: Volume IV: March 2011–December 2013 ......................................................................... 203

ISSN

2224-3151

Language

English