Birth preparedness and determinants of birth place among migrants living in slums and slum-like pockets in Delhi, India.

Objective: The objective of this paper is to report birth preparedness and place of birth and its determinants among recent- and settled- migrant households living in slums of Delhi.

Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, 458 migrant mothers with a child aged below one year of age were identified. Socio-demographic details, data on the place of childbirth, antenatal care (ANC) and birth preparedness in terms of planning for home birth or hospital birth, transport, saving money, knowledge of danger signs were collected through interviewer-administered pretested questionnaire.

Treatment seeking behaviour in hypertension: factors associated with awareness and medication among socioeconomically disadvantaged migrants in Delhi, India.

The present study is apart of a cross-sectional prevalence study. Descriptive statistics were used to present the awareness, treatment and control of hypertension. Multiple logistic regression analyses were performed to examine the influence of socio-demographic and other variables on awareness and on current medication use.

Association of alcohol consumption and blood pressure in some low socioeconomic groups from Andhra Pradesh, India.

The present paper examines the relationship of alcohol consumption with blood pressure (BP) levels and hypertension prevalence. Data on BP, alcohol consumption and anthropometry were obtained from a cross sectional sample of 1316 adult men and women of six low socioeconomic groups belonging to four different ethnic groups from Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Considerable proportions of respondents reported the consumption of alcohol.