Geographical and temporal analysis of bio-medical waste management in India.

In India, a large quantity of bio-medical waste is generated by healthcare facilities. This study analyses the geographical and temporal variations in bio-medical waste management (BMWM) in India systematically. A comprehensive BMWM inventory of India's states and union territories for the period 2008-2017 was prepared and analysed.

Access to Geriatric Disability Care in India: A Roadmap for Research.

This paper presents an ontological review of the global research on access to geriatric disability care and a roadmap for future research to address the problem in India. First, the dominant research focus is on resources (human, financial, and spatial) that affect access to disability care; there is little focus on informational and technological resources. Second, functional disabilities are the dominant focus of the research, followed by cognitive, mental, and locomotor disabilities; there is little focus on speech, hearing, and visual disabilities.

State of Mental Health Research of Adolescents and Youth in Chile: An Ontological Analysis.

Knowing the state of mental health research in adolescents and youth can be an important tool for decision-making, especially in contexts of limited resources. The aim of this study is to map the scientific research on adolescent and youth mental health in Chile using an ontological framework. We have mapped the population of research articles on mental health of adolescents and youth in Chile in Scopus, Web of Science, and SciELO databases onto the ontology.

Toward strengthening active case finding for ending tuberculosis in India.

Active case finding (ACF) is critical for the timely detection and treatment of diseases like tuberculosis (TB). ACF is crucial in India, where health-seeking behaviour across various populations is low and non-reporting is a barrier to breaking disease transmission cycles and eliminating the disease. As an integral part of India's national TB control programs, there is further scope for improvement in its design.

Ontological Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll out Strategies: A Comparison of India and the United States of America.

The unprecedented outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments to devise national strategies to curtail its spread. The present study analyzes the national strategies of India and the United States for the COVID-19 vaccine roll out. The paper presents an ontology of COVID-19 vaccine roll out, maps the national strategies, identifies, analyzes the emphases and gaps in them, and proposes corrections to the same.

Linking nursing education to practice in India.

Governed by central and state nursing Acts that are dated and disconnected, and numbers below global norms, nursing education and practice function within caste- and gender-based prejudices in India. Nursing education is fragmented and siloed, and nursing practice is delinked from education. The study strategically relooks at the Acts and highlights pathways that can strengthen, sustain, or weaken nursing education and practice, and suggests how nursing education can be linked to practice.

A roadmap for bio-medical waste management research.

Bio-Medical waste is solid or liquid waste generated from healthcare activities. Bio-Medical waste management (BMWM) is necessary to protect local community health and environment, to reduce its financial loss and to preserve its social and aesthetic values. BMWM encompasses the waste generation, segregation, collection, transportation, processing and disposal.

Access to Healthcare during COVID-19.

Ensuring access to healthcare is critical to prevent illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 cases in health systems that have deteriorated during the pandemic. This study aims to map the existing literature on healthcare access after the appearance of COVID-19 using an ontological framework. This will help us to formalize, standardize, visualize and assess the barriers to and drivers of access to healthcare, and how to continue working towards a more accessible health system.

Envisioning a learning surveillance system for tuberculosis.

Surveillance is critical for interrupting transmission of global epidemics. Research has highlighted gaps in the surveillance for tuberculosis that range from failure to collect real-time data to lack of standardization of data for informed decision-making at different levels of the health system. Our research aims to advance conceptual and methodological foundations for the development of a learning surveillance system for Tuberculosis, that involves systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and feedback of outcome-specific data.