Knowledge of Private Practitioners Regarding Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program- A Cross-Sectional Study from the Haryana state of India.

Background: India's aim to achieve tuberculosis (TB) eradication by 2025 necessitates the engagement of all stakeholders, encompassing both private and public sectors, across all phases of the TB program - spanning from diagnosis to the curative outcome. However, certain private practitioners pursue an individualized approach instead of adopting a collective strategy, thereby contributing to the emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Consequently, in order to formulate an enhanced strategy that fosters improved collaboration and professional behavioral change among all partners, it is imperative to comprehensively assess their level of knowledge.

Is There an Association between the Duration of Stay in the Medical Colleges and the Smoking Behavior among Medical Students? A Cross-sectional Study.

Background: Health-care providers must be at the forefront of tobacco cessation to ensure a downward shift in tobacco use. Medical schools constitute an important site for education and cessation efforts. Health-care professionals play a substantial role in influencing patients' lifestyle choices including tobacco cessation.

Barriers to Early Initiation and Continuation of Breastfeeding in a Tertiary care Institute of Haryana: A Qualitative Study in Nursing Care Providers.

Introduction: Ever increasing institutional deliveries in India has shifted the responsibility of timely initiation and continuation of breastfeeding from peripheral health workers and families to the nursing care providers of health facilities where the births take place. While institutional deliveries have increased to 72.6%, only 44.

Family centered approach in primary health care: experience from an urban area of Mangalore, India.

Introduction: "Health for All" still eludes public health experts despite many approaches to prevent disease and promote health among urban poor. Several key illness factors lie beyond the conventional healthcare boundaries.

Objective: To examine the effectiveness of family centered approach (FCA) in addressing health and related issues in an urban area of Mangalore, India.

Physicians' tobacco intervention counseling in a tertiary care hospital of South India.

The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats in the present world with a substantial contribution to mortality and morbidity. Patients' visits to their doctors for illnesses and health check-ups offer a great opportunity to screen them for tobacco use and also counsel them to quit tobacco use. This cross sectional study was carried out in out-patient departments of General Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine of a tertiary care medical college teaching hospital in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka state of India between April 2012 and July 2012 among the patients aged 18 years or above who were diagnosed as suffering from tobacco related diseases.