Publications by authors named "Ritika Mukherjee"
Background: There are several leadership training programs for health researchers in India. However, there is a need to develop context-tailored leadership and mentoring approaches.
Objective: The objective of the study is to critically analyze the available leadership training programs in India for health researchers and service providers, for the leadership domains incorporated and overall training approaches.
Background: Breastfeeding practices in institutional settings got disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We reviewed the challenges faced and the "work-around" solutions identified for implementing recommended breastfeeding practices in institutionalized mother-newborn dyads in resource constrained settings during the pandemic with the aim to identify learnings that could be potentially adapted to the Indian and relatable contexts, for building resilient health systems.
Methods: We conducted a scoping review of literature using the PRISMA ScR Extension guidelines.
Background: India went into a stringent lockdown in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in March 2020, and routine outpatient and elective health services were suspended. Thus, access to healthcare services got significantly disrupted. To mitigate the impact, 21 state-owned medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous and among the most resource-constrained states in India, had to hastily launch telemedicine (TM) services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Influenza poses a major public health challenge in South-East Asia Region (SEAR). To address the challenge, there is a need to generate contextual evidence that could inform policy makers and program managers for response preparedness and impact mitigation. The World Health Organization has identified priority areas across five streams for research evidence generation at a global level (WHO Public Health Research Agenda).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: During the unexpected lockdown implemented in early 2020 in reaction to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a considerable section of India's population of migrant construction-site workers were stuck.
Objective: Our objective was to explore the lived experiences and consequent perceptions of migrant workers related to the COVID-19 lockdown and the consequences on their lives.
Methods: We conducted structured in-depth interviews (IDIs) with twelve migrant construction-site workers in Bhavnagar, Western India, from November to December 2020, using qualitative research methods.
A Scoping Review of Interventions for Prevention and Control of Hypertension in India.
Indian J Public Health
January 2023
In India, hypertension (HTN) is a raging public health problem and demands contextualized strategies to combat it. However, there is a gap in indigenous research output on interventions related to HTN that work in the Indian context. We aimed to identify, describe, and systematically compile context-derived evidence for the prevention and control of HTN in adults in India across the community, health-care organization, and health policy domains by reviewing papers published over the past 10 years (January 2013-December 2022).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted newborn care and breastfeeding practices across most healthcare facilities. We undertook this study to explore the barriers and enablers for newborn care and breastfeeding practices in hospitals in Delhi, India for recently delivered mother (RDM)-newborn dyads during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) and inductively design a "pathway of impaction" for informing mitigatory initiatives during the current and future pandemics, at least in the initial months.
Materials And Methods: We used an exploratory descriptive design (qualitative research method) and collected information from seven leading public health facilities in Delhi, India.