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    Realizing universal health coverage in India
    (Frontiers in Public Health, 2023) Nerges Mistry; Sandhya Venkateswaran; Rama Baru; Vikram Patel
    While the goals of UHC are largely common, the pathways leading to goal realization may vary across countries.
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    Feasibility assessment of crowdsourcing slogans for promoting household waste segregation in India: a cross-sectional study
    (Frontiers in Public Health, 2023) Kavya Krishnan; Krushna Chandra Sahoo; Madhanraj Kalyanasundaram; Surya Singh; Asha Srinivas; Ashish Pathak; Cecilia Stalsby Lundborg; Salla Atkins; Kamran Rousta; Vishal Diwan
    IntroductionCrowdsourcing is an emerging technique to engage or access a wider set of experts and multiple stakeholders through online platforms, which might effectively be employed in waste management. Therefore, we assessed the feasibility of the crowdsourcing method to provide an alternative approach that can improve household waste segregation using an online-slogan-contest.MethodsThe contest was promoted via targeted emails to various governmental and non-governmental organizations and through social media platforms for around 4 weeks (25 days). The entries were received through a Google form. The slogans were assessed by the experts and analyzed using content analysis methods.ResultsTotal 969 entries were received from different geographic regions in India. Of that, 456 were in English and 513 in Hindi. Five themes of waste segregation emerged from the received slogans: (1) Community awareness, responsibility, and support, (2) Significance of household waste segregation, (3) Use of separate dustbins, (4) Health and well-being, and (5) Environment and sustainability.DiscussionCrowdsourcing approaches can be used by local authorities for improving waste management approaches and are recommended as these involve a wider audience within a short time frame. Moreover, this approach is flexible and integrating crowdsourcing approaches strengthens our understanding of existing waste management activities.
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    Evolution of community health workers: the fourth stage
    (Frontiers in Public Health, 2023) Nachiket Mor; Bindu Ananth; Viraj Ambalam; Aquinas Edassery; Ajay Meher; Pearl Tiwari; Vinayak Sonawane; Anagha Mahajani; Krisha Mathur; Amishi Parekh; Raghu Dharmaraju
    This paper examines the comprehensive provider stage (stage 4) with the help of programs that have attempted to explore this stage, using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) developed by Ragin.
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    Field based research in the era of the pandemic in resource limited settings: challenges and lessons for the future
    (Frontiers in Public Health, 2024) Rubina Mulchandani; Tanica Lyngdoh; Sheetal Gandotra; H. S. Isser; Rajinder K. Dhamija; Ashish Kumar Kakkar
    The coronavirus pandemic that began in December 2019, has had an unprecedented impact on the global economy, health systems and infrastructure, in addition to being responsible for significant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The new normal has brought along, unforeseen challenges for the scientific community, owing to obstructions in conducting field-based research in lieu of minimizing exposure through in-person contact. This has had greater ramifications for the LMICs, adding to the already existing concerns. As a response to COVID-19 related movement restrictions, public health researchers across countries had to switch to remote data collections methods. However, impediments like lack of awareness and skepticism among participants, dependence on paper-based prescriptions, dearth of digitized patient records, gaps in connectivity, reliance on smart phones, concerns with participant privacy at home and greater loss to follow-up act as hurdles to carrying out a research study virtually, especially in resource-limited settings. Promoting health literacy through science communication, ensuring digitization of health records in hospitals, and employing measures to encourage research participation among the general public are some steps to tackle barriers to remote research in the long term. COVID-19 may not be a health emergency anymore, but we are not immune to future pandemics. A more holistic approach to research by turning obstacles into opportunities will not just ensure a more comprehensive public health response in the coming time, but also bolster the existing infrastructure for a stronger healthcare system for countries.