Background: India is the second most populous country in world. Studies have shown that quality of primary health care low to middle income countries very poor. Patient’s perception service provided has strong relation with utilization services. Hence it’s important monitor delivery systems gain more knowledge about systems.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted selected healthcare cent...

Abstract Background Globally, community health workers (CHWs) are integral contributors to many systems. In India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) have been deployed since 2005. Engaged in multiple care activities, they a key link between the system and population. ASHAs expected participate new programmes prompting interest their current workload from perspective of system, family. ...

Photonic crystals (PhCs) have promising applications in future integrated circuits based on lightwaves. A typical PhC structure or device has many identical unit cells. Based on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps of the unit cells, we have developed efficient numerical methods for analyzing various PhC structures. In this paper, these works are briefly reviewed.

BACKGROUND Distant healing, a form of spiritual healing, is widely used for many conditions but little is known about its effectiveness. METHODS In order to evaluate distant healing in patients with a stable chronic condition, we randomised 409 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) from 14 private practices for environmental medicine in Germany and Austria in a two by two factorial des...

CONTEXT Fragmentation of care, complexity of diseases and the need to involve patients actively in their individual health care led to the development of the personal health community (PHC). In a PHC, patients can -regardless of the nature of their condition- invite all professionals that are involved in their health care process. Once gathered, the patient and health care team can exchange inf...

Background: Pregnancy is associated with immunological and physiological changes in many organ systems. Influenza pregnancy has been higher rates of morbidity mortality. The Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) the World Health Organization (WHO) advocate antenatal influenza vaccination. Objective: This study aims to assess Primary Healthcare Physicians’ (PHPs) knowledge, practice, atti...

BACKGROUND Several reports of chloroquine treatment failure and resistance in Plasmodium vivax malaria from Southeast Asian countries have been published. Present study was undertaken to assess the efficacy of chloroquine-primaquine (CQ-PQ) combined regimen for the treatment of P. vivax malaria patients who were catered by the selected primary health centres (PHCs) of Udupi taluk, Udupi distric...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) patients face substantial delays prior to treatment initiation, and out of pocket (OOP) expenditures often surpass the economic productivity of the household. We evaluated the pre-diagnostic cost and health seeking behaviour of new adult pulmonary TB patients registered at Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, India. METHODS This descripti...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The presence of efficient malaria vectors namely Anopeles culicifacies, An. fluviatilis and An. annularis (Diptera: Culicidae), rapid industrialization causing large influx of population and poor health infrastructure are some of the factors that make malaria an important public health problem in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand State, India. A geographical information s...