World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia. (2015). WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, Volume 4, Issue 2, July-December 2015, 107-214, Volume 4, Issue 2, July-December 2015, 107-214. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/204147
Contents
Editorial
Making “prevention and preparedness” a recovery priority: lessons from the
response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake...................................................................................107
Review
Opportunities and obstacles in child and adolescent mental health services in
low- and middle-income countries: a review of the literature...................................................110
Dutsadee Juengsiragulwit
Original research
HIV drug-resistance early-warning indicators and quality care in India: preliminary
findings from a pilot study in Pune city.....................................................................................123
Manisha Ghate, Dileep Kadam, Nitin Gaikwad, Subramanian Shankar, Shraddha Gurav, Girish Rahane,
Sukarma Tanwar, Bharat Rewari, Raman Gangakhedkar
Lessons for addressing noncommunicable diseases within a primary health-care system
from the Ballabgarh project, India............................................................................................130
Ritvik Amarchand, Anand Krishnan, Deepika Singh Saraf, Prashant Mathur,
Deepak K Shukla, Lalit M Nath
Regional variation in maternal and childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh:
evidence from demographic and health surveys.......................................................................139
Masuda Mohsena, Rie Goto, CG Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
Exploring the factors that influence the perceptions of disability: a qualitative study
of mothers of children with disabilities at a community-based rehabilitation centre in
Sri Lanka..................................................................................................................................150
Michel D Landry, Sudha R Raman, Elise Harris, Layla Madison, Meera Parekh, Cecile Banks,
Huda Bhatti, Champa Wijesinghe
Tobacco-promotional activities in rural Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study of knowledge,
exposure and responses among adolescent schoolchildren.......................................................159
E Madhurangi Perera, Nalika S Gunawardena
Access to free health-care services for the poor in tertiary hospitals of western Nepal:
a descriptive study....................................................................................................................167
Preeti K Mahato, Giridhari Sharma Paudel
HIV prevalence in blood donors and recipients in Pakistan: a meta-analysis and
analysis of blood-bank data......................................................................................................176
Bushra Moiz, Barkat Ali, Muhammad Hasnain Chatha, Ahmed Raheem, Hasan Abbas Zaheer
Policy and practice
Feasibility of implementing an integrated tool for improvement of treatment quality
and early-warning indicators for HIV drug resistance: a pilot study of centres in India..............184
Bharat B Rewari, Nicole S Seguy, Sukarma SS Tanwar, Po-Lin Chan, Vimlesh Purohit, Pauline Harvey,
Dongbao Yu, AS Rathore
Impact of rubella vaccination on elimination of congenital rubella syndrome in
Sri Lanka: progress and challenges...........................................................................................189
Deepa Gamage, Geethani Galagoda, Paba Palihawadana
Towards elimination of parent-to-child transmission of syphilis in India: a rapid situation
review to inform national strategy............................................................................................197
Vani Srinivas, Prasad LN Turlapati, Anil K Bhola, Aman K Singh, Shobini Rajan,
Radha S Gupta, Sunil D Khaparde
Landscaping capacity-building initiatives in epidemiology in India: bridging the
demand–supply gap.................................................................................................................204
Sanjay Zodpey, Anuja Pandey, Manoj Murhekar, Anjali Sharma
Letter
Innovative use of social media platform WhatsApp during influenza outbreak
in Gujarat, India.......................................................................................................................213
Bhagyesh Shah, Shuchi Kaushik