7 results match your criteria: "Manipal Institute of Communication[Affiliation]"

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  • The study aimed to assess the impact of a social media campaign called '#CPR challenge' and a CPR skill booth on CPR knowledge and hands-only CPR skills among young adults in two colleges, one serving as an intervention group and the other as a control group.!* -
  • After a 4-week campaign, results indicated that knowledge scores in the intervention group significantly increased from 29% to 57%, and their hands-on CPR skills were much higher compared to the control group.!* -
  • The findings suggest that social media strategies can effectively enhance both awareness and practical skills related to hands-only CPR among young adults.!*
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Impact of public-funded health insurances in India on health care utilisation and financial risk protection: a systematic review.

BMJ Open

December 2021

Department of Health Information, Public Health Evidence South Asia, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka, India

Objective: Universal Health Coverage aims to address the challenges posed by healthcare inequalities and inequities by increasing the accessibility and affordability of healthcare for the entire population. This review provides information related to impact of public-funded health insurance (PFHI) on financial risk protection and utilisation of healthcare.

Design: Systematic review.

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Context: The process of communication includes intense observation based on which opinions are formed or situations are created. A patient whose is in state of panic due to the health conditions feels neglected and becomes skeptical about the treatment hi/she is going to receive.

Aims: The aim of the study is to understand the need for being sensitive towards patient's presence while communicating.

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Health insurance awareness and its uptake in India: a systematic review protocol.

BMJ Open

April 2021

Public Health Evidence South Asia, Department of Health Information, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

Introduction: Health insurance is one of the important approaches that can help in boosting universal healthcare coverage through improved healthcare utilisation and financial protection. This objectives of this review are to identify various interventions implemented in India to promote awareness of health insurance, and to provide evidence for the effectiveness of such interventions on the awareness and uptake of health insurance by the resident Indian population.

Methods And Analysis: A systematic review will be carried out based on the Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions.

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Interventions for Addressing Anemia Among Children and Adolescents: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.

Front Pediatr

February 2021

Department of Community Medicine, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, India.

Anemia is a public health problem that can lead to growth, cognitive, and motor impairments. To collate evidence on interventions for addressing childhood and adolescent anemia. In this overview of systematic reviews, we included Cochrane as well as non-Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs) irrespective of language and publication status.

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Sensitising doctors: a pedagogical approach to medical humanities.

Indian J Med Ethics

February 2014

Assistant Professor, Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka 576 104 INDIA e-mail:

The first part of this paper explores what we mean by the word 'sensitising' and presents an argument for conceiving of 'sensitising' in a way that respects the intellectual as well as the healing roles of medical practitioners, while taking the concept further as 'informed reflection'. It also makes a case for the importance of sensitising in medical 'praxis'. The second part of the paper describes an approach which is based partly on a module that has been taught in a medical programme.

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