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Item Does the Nae Umeed group intervention improve mental health and social participation? A pre-post study in Uttarakhand, India(Cambridge Prisms-Global Mental Health, 2023) Christopher R. Bailie; Pooja S. Pillai; Atul Goodwin Singh; Jed Leishman; Nathan J. Grills; Kaaren MathiasThis pre-post study aimed to evaluate whether Nae Umeed improved mental health and social participation for people with mental distress, including caregivers.Item An overview of public health education in South Asia: Challenges and opportunities(Frontiers In Public Health, 2022) Chandanadur Thippaiah Anitha; Konok Akter; Kalyankar MahadevThe article gives an overview of Master of Public Health (MPH) programs across South Asian countries. An extensive systematic search on various web search engines regarding PH course offerings was conducted, including specific institutes and educational websites.Item Assessment of needs and gaps in public health cadre in India - a situational analysis(BMC Health Services Research, 2023) Manish Priyadarshi; Sidharth Sekhar Mishra; Abha Singh; Aanchal Singhal; Moammar Hashmi; Sutapa B. NeogiThe objective of this study was to conduct a situational analysis of the public health cadre in select states in India to gain an in-depth understanding of the progress and explore the gaps and challenges in its implementation.Item 'A light inside a pot': Sites and sources of power emerging from an ethnography of traditional healing in South India(Glob. Public Health, 2019) Devaki Nambiar; Arima MishraMedicine and healing have been critical elements of nation-building and governance in India. There is a clear hierarchy: biomedicine, followed by systems like Ayurveda which are to be 'mainstreamed,' and local health traditions, which are to be 'revitalised'. Mindful that power nonetheless resides in positions of marginality, this analysis drew from a health system ethnography on revitalisation of local health traditions in three southern Indian states. Data from multiple interviews with 51 healers, observations of meetings, healing sessions and events convened by healers, as well as a multi-stakeholder dialogue on local health traditions convened by authors were analysed using a grounded analytical process. The state was a source of power, but in an enmeshed, individualised form. Other sources of power included accomplished others who viewed healers and their practices with respect, healers' collectives that produced and reinforced power through the exercise of certain rituals, and the sacred calling to heal, which assumed stringent criteria for practice and training, while also creating a moral imperative for service orientation. Our study shows how power rests in or is derived from multiple sites and sources that inhere and interact in critical ways with the state and other systems of medicine.Item Medical Crowdfunding in India: The Need for a Strong Legal Enforcement System(Indian Journal of Public Health, 2024) Lekha D Bhat; Sigamani PanneerBhagyalakshmi R.; Komali Kantamaneni; Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar; Louis RiceIn the absence of sector-specific legislation and government guidelines, the paper summarizes the growth of medical crowdfunding in India, identifies the challenges, and reiterates the need for effective legal enforcement systems.Item Incidence, Inequality and Determinants of Catastrophic Health Expenditure in India(Journal of Health Management, 2023) Rohin Gaddam; K. Ramachandra RaoThis study tries to estimate the incidence, intensity and inequality of Catastrophic Health Expenditure in India and its determinants using unit-level data from the four consecutive surveys of NSSO on ‘Healthcare Consumption and Morbidity’ spread across a 23-year period.Item Barriers in reaching new-borns and infants through home visits: A qualitative study using nexus planning framework(Frontiers In Public Health, 2022) Vaishali Deshmukh; Shibu John; Abhijit Pakhare; Rajib Dasgupta; Ankur Joshi; Sanjay Chaturvedi; Kiran Goswami; Manoja Kumar Das; Rupak Mukhopadhyay; Rakesh Singh; Pradeep ShrivastavaThe home visitation program services, quality and impact can be enhanced by addressing the social-cultural, organizational, educational, economic, and physical nexus domains with concurrent efforts for skill and confidence enhancement of the ASHAs and their credibility.Item Do health education initiatives assist socioeconomically disadvantaged populations? A systematic review and meta-analyses(BMC Public Health, 2023) E. L. Karran; A. R. Grant; H. Lee; S. J. Kamper; C. M. Williams; L. K. Wiles; R. Shala; C. V. Poddar; T. Astill; G. L. MoseleyHealth education interventions are considered critical for the prevention and management of conditions of public health concern.Item Action-research-based optimisation model for health care behaviour change in rural India(Int. J. Prod. Res., 2018) Sameer Prasad; R. P. Sundarraj; Jasmine Tata; Nezih AltayIn this research, we utilise a multi-method braided approach for a real-world health care intervention in rural India. We first use action research to conceptually underpin the role of self-help groups, disease profiles and appropriate interventions in health care behaviour change and improvement. Action research is then coupled with a non-linear integer-programming-based simulation to determine how health care resources need to be distributed over time, disease type and groups. The action research provides specific research questions and distributional forms needed for the optimisation analysis, while the non-linear integer-programming simulation provides specific recommendations on where and when to distribute resources. External validity of the study is ensured by the adoption of recommendations in the field as part of the action research. Findings from this research have important policy implications. For example, it identifies the value of continuous embedded interventions as opposed to periodic ones and the importance of flexibility in terms of which community groups and disease types to serve over time. This research also provides an important bridge between the operations research, health care in developing nations, organisational theory and humanitarian operations bodies of knowledge.Item The challenges of institutionalizing community-level social accountability mechanisms for health and nutrition: a qualitative study in Odisha, India(BMC Health Services Research, 2018) Francesca Feruglio; Nicholas NisbettThe primary research questions were ‘what kinds of community level mechanisms are functioning in randomly selected villages in 3 districts of state of Odisha' and 'how are they perceived to function by their members and frontline workers’.