Publications by authors named "R Rasaily"
Primary healthcare caters to nearly 70% of the population in India and provides treatment for approximately 80-90% of common conditions. To achieve universal health coverage (UHC), the Indian healthcare system is gearing up by initiating several schemes such as National Health Protection Scheme, Ayushman Bharat, Nutrition Supplementation Schemes, and Inderdhanush Schemes. The healthcare delivery system is facing challenges such as irrational use of medicines, over- and under-diagnosis, high out-of-pocket expenditure, lack of targeted attention to preventive and promotive health services, and poor referral mechanisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Melghat in India is a hilly, forested, difficult to access, impoverished rural area in northeast part of Maharashtra (Central India) with difficult healthcare access. Melghat has very high Mortality rates, because of grossly inadequate medical facilities. (1) Home deaths contribute to 67% of deaths,(2) which are difficult to track and where cause of death is mostly unknown.
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- The study investigates how the gut microbiome in newborns is influenced by the mode of delivery (vaginal vs. C-section) and develops over the first year of life through longitudinal tracking of mother-neonate pairs.
- Results indicate that while delivery method affects gut microbiome composition, microbial diversity generally increases with age and is significantly impacted when breastfeeding ends.
- There is limited direct influence from the mother's breast milk or vaginal microbiome on the baby's gut microbiome, and much of the microbiome's mature state may come from environmental exposure, particularly after solid foods are introduced.
Dibrugarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Dibrugarh-HDSS), was started in the year 2019 with the objective to create the health and demographic database of a population from a defined geographical area and a surveillance system for providing technical assistance for the implementation of programmes and formulating intervention strategies for reducing disease morbidities and mortalities in the population. Dibrugarh-HDSS adopted a panel design and covered 60 contiguous villages and 20 tea gardens. Line listing of all the households was conducted and a unique identification number detailing State, district, village/tea garden and serial number was provided along with geotagging.
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