Incomplete and absent doses in routine childhood vaccinations are of major concern. Health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), in particular, often struggle to enable full vaccination of children, which ...
Background: Even with years of maternal and child health programmes and interventions, maternal and child health issues persist in India. Given the expansion in the ownership and use of mobile phones, mobile health (mHealth) ...
India is the second-largest country globally in terms of population, with two-thirds of the population living in rural areas. India has made a significant pace in improving the overall health scenario even with several ...
India is the second-largest nation in the world, with two-thirds of its population living in rural areas. The demographic and environmental shift of the country is augmenting the already existing high burden of public ...
Choksi, Nishaant(Pragjyotish Centre for Cultural Research(PCCR), 2021-10)
In the twentieth century, forest and hill-dwelling communities throughout South and Southeast Asia have been involved in the creation of unique orthographic scripts to represent their languages. While many outsiders have ...
Background There is a theory-praxis gap related to health literacy interventions focused on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among young people. We designed an NCD curriculum and investigated its' effect on health literacy ...
To read anti-caste context in cinema one needs to have an experiential eye. The ones at the receiving end of caste-based discrimination and thereof inflicted humiliation by the orthodox social codes find resistance as the ...
Introduction and Aims:-This study describes the prevalence and drinking patterns of alcohol consumption among adults (aged 15+ years) and explores the association between sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption ...
Anyone visiting the Mishmi Hills and interested in wildlife and conservation would have come across the mythological story of the Mishmi and tigers as brothers. Such narratives of tigers as siblings are popular in other ...
Background
At the individual level, it is well known that pregnancies have a short-term effect on a woman’s cardiovascular system and blood pressure. The long-term effect of having children on maternal blood pressure, ...
There is a theory-praxis gap related to health literacy interventions focused on non-communicable diseases (NCD) among young people. We designed a NCD curriculum and investigated its effect on health literacy in non-medical, ...
This article draws on Judith T. Irvine's over two decades of work on ideologies of honorification to investigate and analyze the historical transformation of the use of the dual pronominal form in Santali, an Austro-Asiatic ...
The People�s Linguistic Survey of India provides an overview of the extant and dying languages of India, as perceived by their speakers. It is the culmination of a nation-wide survey of languages, documented by linguists, ...
Devi, Anusmita; Hurd, Laura; Samanta, Tannistha(University of Pittsburgh, 2021-11)
This study explores how South Asian Indian Gujarati older adults in Canada (Greater Vancouver area) strive to maintain personal continuity, citizenship, and selfhood through everyday body management practices (exercise/yoga, ...