World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia. (2015). WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, Volume 4, Issue 1, January-June 2015, 1-105, Volume 4, Issue 1, January-June 2015, 1-105. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/204146
Contents
CONTENTS
Editorial
Towards sustainable access to safe drinking water in South-East Asia............................................1
Perspective
Family Planning – friendly Health facility Initiative to promote contraceptive utilization..............3
Moazzam Ali, Vinit Sharma, Arvind Mathur, Marleen Temmerman
Review
A review of the Sri Lankan health-sector response to intimate partner violence:
looking back, moving forward......................................................................................................6
Sepali Guruge, Vathsala Jayasuriya-Illesinghe, Nalika Gunawardena
National nursing and midwifery legislation in countries of
South-East Asia with high HIV burdens.......................................................................................12
Nila K Elison, Andre R Verani, Carey McCarthy
Mosquito-borne diseases in Assam, north-east India: current status and key challenges..............20
V Dev, VP Sharma, K Barman
Original research
Association between household air pollution and neonatal mortality: an analysis of Annual
Health Survey results, India........................................................................................................30
Sutapa Bandyopadhyay Neogi, Shivam Pandey, Jyoti Sharma, Maulik Chokshi,
Monika Chauhan, Sanjay Zodpey, Vinod K Paul
The validity of self-reported helmet use among motorcyclists in India........................................38
Shirin Wadhwaniya, Shivam Gupta, Shailaja Tetali, Lakshmi K Josyula, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Adnan A Hyder
A cross-sectional study of exposure to mercury in schoolchildren living
near the eastern seaboard industrial estate of Thailand...............................................................45
Punthip Teeyapant, Siriwan Leudang, Sittiporn Parnmen
Inequality in maternal health-care services and safe delivery in eastern India.............................54
Arabinda Ghosh
Prevalence of household drinking-water contamination and of acute diarrhoeal
illness in a periurban community in Myanmar............................................................................62
Su Latt Tun Myint, Thuzar Myint, Wah Wah Aung, Khin Thet Wai
Innovative social protection mechanism for alleviating catastrophic expenses
on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Chhattisgarh, India..............................................69
Debashish Kundu, Vijendra Katre, Kamalpreet Singh, Madhav Deshpande, Priyakanta Nayak,
Kshitij Khaparde, Arindam Moitra, Sreenivas A Nair, Malik Parmar
A cross-sectional survey of the models in Bihar and Tamil Nadu, India
for pooled procurement of medicines.........................................................................................78
Maulik Chokshi, Habib Hasan Farooqui, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Preeti Kumar
Policy and practice
Barriers and facilitators to development of standard treatment guidelines in India.......................86
Sangeeta Sharma, Gulshan R Sethi, Usha Gupta, Ranjit Roy Chaudhury
Demand–supply gaps in human resources to combat vector-borne disease in India:
capacity-building measures in medical entomology....................................................................92
Anuja Pandey, Sanjay Zodpey, Raj Kumar
Report from the field
Challenges in conducting community-based trials of primary prevention of
cardiovascular diseases in resource-constrained rural settings.....................................................98
Twinkle Agrawal, Farah Naaz Fathima, Shailendra Kumar B Hegde, Rajnish Joshi,
Nallasamy Srinivasan, Dominic Misquith
Recent WHO Publications.....................................................................................104