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Critical nutritional stress among adult tribal populations of West Bengal and Orissa, India. [PDF]
, 2012 This paper deals with cross-sectional studies carried out during the period 2004-2007. It is based on eight data sets of tribals of Paschim Medinipur and Bankura Districts of West Bengal and Keonjhar District of Orissa.
Kaushik Bose, Samiran Bisai
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Demographic Research, 2022 Background: India's National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) have provided critical population-level data to inform public policy and research. Although fertility declined, NFHS-4 (2015-2016) reported lower modern contraceptive and female sterilization use ...
Kaushalendra Kumar +2 more
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Understanding effects of armed conflict on health outcomes: the case of Nepal [PDF]
, 2010 Objective There is abundance of literature on adverse effects of conflict on the health of the population. In contrast to this, sporadic data in Nepal claim improvements in most of the health indicators during the decade-long armed conflict (1996-2006).
Devkota, B., van Teijlingen, Edwin
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Aim Recent National Family Health Survey results portray striking improvements in most population and health indicators, including fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, gender treatment, household environments, and health insurance ...
S. K. Singh +5 more
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International Journal of Cardiology. Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention, 2023 Background: India, as a nation is witnessing epidemiological transition, which is taking place across all the states at different level, over past couple of decades.
Kartikey Yadav +6 more
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Decomposing the gap in childhood undernutrition between poor and non–poor in urban India, 2005–06 [PDF]
, 2013 Despite the growing evidence from other developing countries, intra-urban inequality in childhood undernutrition is poorly researched in India. Additionally, the factors contributing to the poor/non-poor gap in childhood undernutrition have not been ...
Kumar, A., Singh, Aditya
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Self-reported tuberculosis in India: evidence from NFHS-4 [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2019 This paper reports self-reported levels and socioeconomic patterns in the distribution of tuberculosis (TB) cases in India, based on information collected under the National Family Health Survey-Round 4 (NFHS-4, 2014–2015). Based on a nationally representative sample of over 600 000 households comprising of about 2.9 million individuals, we estimate a ...
Sumit Mazumdar +2 more
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Vaccination coverage and vaccine hesitancy among vulnerable population of India
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020 Vaccination coverage in India has improved from 44% to 62%, an increase of 19% over a span of 10 y (2006–2016), the inequity continues among the vulnerable people belonging to tribal groups and migrant population. In order to leave no one behind strategy,
Karpaga Priya P +2 more
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Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2022 Background: Studies and published reports have not commented on the change in the proportion of the Indian population that consumed alcohol over the years.
Yatan Pal Singh Balhara +2 more
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Need to involve relevant stakeholders –lessons from NFHS data
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2023 ABSTRACT Contextualizing data to their settings is perhaps the most important step in deriving a meaning from them. This is no less true for health data. The National Health Survey data are an excellent source of information; however, its strength may not be its contextualization.
Sunil Kumar Raina, Raman Kumar
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