Highlights • Why are Nepal’s maternity services underused? • Cardiometabolic-risk indices for South Asians • Oseltamivir-resistant influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in India
Citation
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia. (2013). WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, Volume 2, Issue 3 & 4, July-December 2013, 129-204, Volume 2, Issue 3 & 4, July-December 2013, 129-204. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/204142
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