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Item A Vision for Nutrition Research in Asia(Food Nutr. Bull., 2019) Shweta Khandelwal; Anura KurpadItem 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 A snapshot of reproductive and sexual health and rights of women living with HIV in Asia(Oral Dis., 2020) Anandi Yuvaraj; Paramita KunduObjective A brief review of status of sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Asia with a focus on their access to related services. Subject(s) and methods The content has primarily emerged from several meetings, workshops and research studies that regional networks of women living with HIV have conducted in the region. We used published and unpublished literature in English after the year 2000. Results We found many hindrances to realization of sexual and reproductive rights by HIV-positive women and their access to related health services. Rampant stigma and discrimination by service providers take the form of denial of contraceptive and maternal health services, forced sterilization, breach of confidentiality and disclosure of status to others without the consent of the woman. Families blaming women for bringing HIV and male partners objecting to using condoms affect the well-being of HIV-positive women. Sexual rights specifically aspects of positive sexuality such as sexual pleasure have not received attention. Conclusion Findings suggest the need to enhance capacities of HIV-positive women's organizations to meaningfully participate in decisions on positive women's sexual, reproductive health and rights and sensitize service providers to adequately address HIV-positive women's concerns.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.