Kitchen garden, dietary diversity, and women's health in rural eastern India: a mixed method study.

Background: Nutrition and food security have been a development priority for decades and remain a major challenge for developing nations like India. Although agriculture is the dominant occupation in India, the rural populations experience poor nutritional outcomes and lag in socio-economic progress. More than half of the Indian women (15-49 years) are anaemic & one-third of the children are stunted.

Do the fathers matter? Paternal perspective of exclusive breastfeeding practices: A community-based cross-sectional study in urban slums of Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Introduction: Although various policies have been framed to improve exclusive breastfeeding outcomes in India, the father's role in breastfeeding is grossly ignored. Gender inequalities are still predominant in several parts of India. Fathers' involvement in breastfeeding decision-making plays a significant role in improving the outcome.

Transforming Hospital Housekeeping: The Kayakalp Journey.

Introduction: The Kayakalp guidelines for public healthcare facilities under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) focus on improving sanitation, cleanliness, and infection control at public hospitals in India. This study was conducted in a 960-bed tertiary-level teaching hospital in eastern India. Housekeeping has been a challenge in public institutions, with factors like overcrowding and resource constraints.

Financial hardship of tuberculosis patients registered under National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) in rural India: A longitudinal study.

Background: India shares a significant proportion of the Tuberculosis (TB) burden of the world. TB diagnosis, treatment, and success are complicated by the chronic nature of the disease as well as additional stressors including financial, psychological, and social hardships, adverse events associated with management, and poor compliance towards anti-tuberculosis medications.

Methods: This is a longitudinal study conducted in the Tuberculosis Units (TUs) of rural field practice areas of the Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine in a tertiary care hospital in Odisha.

Community-Based Qualitative Study to Identify Challenges in Implementing Health Promoting Schools Framework in Government Schools of Khordha District, Odisha, India.

Background: The WHO asserts every school should be a Health Promoting School (HPS) and laid a framework. The WHO is constantly working on expanding the number of schools modelled on it. The status of the level of health promotion needs to be explored to understand the local issues to identify key priority areas for policy making towards positive health.

Effectiveness of Fortified Mid-Day Meal in Reducing Anemia Among School Children in Dhenkanal, Odisha: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Background: Iron-deficiency anemia among school-aged children is widespread in India. The efficacy of micronutrient and iron fortified school-served meals in reducing iron deficiency anemia has been demonstrated in randomized controlled trials in other parts of the globe. The current study evaluates its effectiveness in real-world Indian settings.

Continuum Diabetes Care among Tuberculosis Patients in a Rural Block of Eastern Odisha.

Introduction: Interaction between TB and DM shows that 10% of the TB cases globally are linked to DM. The weaker immunity of patients with chronic diseases like DM is at higher risk of progressing from latent to active TB. A large portion of DM and TB patients remain undiagnosed or get diagnosed later.

Geometrical Approaches for the Accurate Identification of Normal Vertical Positions of Sella and Nasion Points in Cephalograms.

Objective: The aim of the study is to identify the normal vertical positions of sella (S) and nasion (N) points in subjects with a normal inclination of anterior cranial bases.

Materials And Methods: Lateral cephalograms of 117 subjects who had a normal ∠SN-FH plane (7° ± 1°), ∠SN-palatal plane (9° ± 2°), ∠FH-palatal plane (1° ± 1°), and cranial base angles (131° ± 4°) were included in the study. Various linear and angular parameters and ratios were evaluated to determine the normal vertical positions of S and N points.

Clinico-Epidemiological Characteristics of Healthcare Workers with SARS-CoV-2 Infection during the First and Second Waves in a Teaching Hospital from Eastern India: A Comparative Analysis.

In this retrospective observational study, we have performed a comparative analysis of the demographic, clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the HCWs affected with SARS-CoV-2 infection during first two waves in India. The overall prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among HCWs was found to be 15.24% (14.

A time-motion study of the COVID-19 vaccination process in an urban primary health center of Odisha, India.

Vaccination is a critical tool in protecting against COVID-19. It is essential to know the time for each activity in a COVID-19 vaccination process for better management, especially during a pandemic. Thus, we conducted a time-motion study to identify activities that led to delayed/increased waiting time in an urban primary health center in Bhubaneswar, India.

How prepared the radiotherapy centers are to deal with COVID-19 pandemic? A nationwide survey from 46 cancer centers across India.

Managing of radiotherapy department in many cancer centers in India has become very challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic. A radiotherapy center has to deal with multiple problems such as long treatment duration of each patient, high caseload on each radiotherapy machine, a limited number of qualified technical staff available, and equipment maintenance. For the department's smooth running, both the patient and healthcare worker must be safe from contacting COVID-19.

Capacity Building of Frontline Workers for Detection of Children (0-6 Years) with Developmental Delays in a Rural Setting: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.

Introduction: Development during the early stage of life i.e. in the first 1000 d is crucial in determining the psychosocial productivity of a child in the future.

Preparedness of primary and secondary health facilities in India to address major noncommunicable diseases: results of a National Noncommunicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS).

Background: The monitoring framework for evaluating health system response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) include indicators to assess availability of affordable basic technologies and essential medicines to treat them in both public and private primary care facilities. The Government of India launched the National Program for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) in 2010 to strengthen health systems. We assessed availability of trained human resources, essential medicines and technologies for diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases as one of the components of the National Noncommunicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS - 2017-18).

Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15-17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India.

Objective: To generate national estimates of key non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors for adolescents (15-17 years) identified in the National NCD Monitoring Framework and, study the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards NCD risk behaviours among school-going adolescents.

Design And Setting: A community-based, national, crosssectional survey conducted during 2017-2018. The survey was coordinated by the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research with 10 reputed implementing research institutes/organisations across India in urban and rural areas.

How healthy is our primary health care workforce? A cross-sectional study.

Context: Progress of any nation depends on the health status of the population. A nation's health directly and indirectly depends on the quality of health-care facilities and how healthy the health care workforce is in that country. To achieve the health for all goal and to provide for most of the health services like maternal health services, child health services, nutrition, vaccination, and family planning services, the Indian health system have multipurpose health workers (female and male) and Accredited Social Health Activist to provide these services at the grass-root level.

Soil transmitted helminth infections among school going age children of slums from Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Objective: The objective is to determine prevalence and risk factors for soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection among school-going age children from slums of Bhubaneswar.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting: Microbiology laboratory of a tertiary care hospital, Bhubaneswar, during May 1-October 30, 2015 (6 months) including 360 children of 3-15 years from two populated slums of Bhubaneswar, assuming STH prevalence - 50%, confidence interval 95% and 10% relative precision.

Effect of caste on health, independent of economic disparity: evidence from school children of two rural districts of India.

Caste, a stratifying axis of the Indian society, is associated with wealth and health. However, to what extent caste-based health inequality is explained by wealth disparities, is not clear. Therefore, we aimed to examine the caste-based differences in anaemia (haemoglobin < 11 gm/dl) and self-reported sickness absenteeism in schoolchildren and the mediating role of economic disparity.

Short term effect of yoga asana - An adjunct therapy to conventional treatment in frozen shoulder.

Background: The available treatments for frozen shoulder yield variable results. Physical therapy and analgesics are considered as the first-line treatment for this disorder, but the effects are not uniform. There is some evidence to support that alternative medicine may have a role in its management.

Hepatitis C, a silent threat to the community of Haryana, India: a community-based study.

Background: Hepatitis C is a global public health problem. As many as 12 million people may be chronically infected in India and most are unaware of it.

Aims: To determine the incidence of hepatitis C in the Ratia block of the Fatehabad district, Haryana, India.

Extent of delay in diagnosis in new smear positive patients of pulmonary tuberculosis attending tertiary care hospital.

Background: India is the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden country accounting for one-fifth of the global incidence. It is estimated that, annually, 1.9 million cases are from India and about 0.