Community based monitoring under national rural health mission in Maharashtra: status at primary health centers.

This study compares the implementation of community-based monitoring (CBM) in 45 primary health centers (PHCs) in the pilot phase in Maharashtra with the equal number of randomly selected PHCs not implementing CBM (non-CBM) from the same districts. Information was collected by teams from Community Medicine Departments by visiting selected PHCs. Establishment of monitoring committees and training of medical officers (MOs) had been completed as required but only 36.

Clinico-epidemiological profile of fever cases admitted during epidemics of Chikungunya fever.

A study of Clinico-epidemiological profile of fever cases admitted during epidemics of Chikungunya fever was carried out in Latur city of Maharashtra State. A total of 238 fever cases were investigated in relation to clinico-epidemilogical characteristics. Maximum fever cases admitted during epidemics of Chikungunya fever were in the age group 16-60 years (74.

Awareness of urban slum mothers regarding home management of diarrhoea and symptoms of pneumonia.

A total of 635 mothers of under five children from urban slum area of Nanded city were assessed to know their awareness about home management of diarrhoea and symptoms of pneumonia. 48.5% of the mothers were unaware of any method of rehydrating the child with diarrhoea at home level followed by 36.

Pulmonary effects of formaldehyde exposure--an environmental-epidemiological study.

A comparative study of effects of formaldehyde on respiratory system was carried out among systematically selected anatomy and histopathology department workers of three medical colleges of Vidarbha. A group of persons, not exposed to formaldehyde served as control group. Analysis of air samples revealed that the concentration of formaldehyde at study group work places was significantly more than the control group work places.