BACKGROUND Echis carinatus (Saw scaled viper {SSV}) is a venomous snake found in the parts of Middle East and Central Asia. SSV envenoming is characterized by local swelling and coagulopathy. Various bleeding manifestations are commonly seen with SSV envenoming. In contrast to other part of Asia, saw scale viper envenoming has not been reported to cause life threatening haemorrhagic manifestati...

BACKGROUND Most studies on alcohol consumption carried out in Sri Lanka are limited to single/few provinces in the island. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence, patterns and correlates of alcohol consumption among a larger sample of adults in Sri Lanka. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in seven of all nine provinces in Sri Lanka, between 2005 and 2006. A...

Dengue virus (DENV), a globally emerging cause of undifferentiated fever, has been documented in the heavily urbanized western coast of Sri Lanka since the 1960s. New areas of Sri Lanka are now being affected, and the reported number and severity of cases have increased. To study emerging DENV in southern Sri Lanka, we obtained epidemiologic and clinical data and acute- and convalescent-phase s...

Sri Lanka has witnessed a dramatic and unprecedented rise in suicide over the past four decades.' The suicide rate for Sri Lanka, which is based on mortality statistics reported by the Registrar-General and/or police records, escalated from 6.5 per 100,000 in 1950 to 56.5 in 1992, a nearly 870 percent increase over a 42 year period (Figure 1). In recent years Sri Lanka has reported one of the h...

This article stems from a larger ethnographic study that primarily explored nurses' cancer pain management in Sri Lanka. The findings presented in this article report on two aspects revealed in that study: the Sri Lankan health-care system and nursing. The findings indicate that the Sri Lankan health-care system is under considerable strain. Poor hospital management allows doctors to admit too ...

Mrigesh Bhatia London School of Economics, London Viroj Tangcharoensathien International Health Policy Programme, Thailand Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Aparnaa Somanathan Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Phusit Prakongsai International Health Policy Programme, Thailand Tharanga Fernando Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Supon Limwatananon International ...

This paper develops and validates a conceptual framework for evaluating the public value of e-government in Sri Lanka. The delivery of public services and the efficiency and effectiveness of public organizations are considered based on a comprehensive literature review. Structural equation modelling is used on the survey data collected in Sri Lanka for testing and validating the proposed framew...

Plant poisoning is not an uncommon problem in Sri Lanka. A hospital based prospective study showed that Jatropha curcas, Ricinus communis, Dieffenbachia, Adenia palmata, Amanita phalloides and Thevetia peruviana are common poisonous plants implicated in poisoning among children in Sri Lanka. [1]. In the past, deliberate ingestion of yellow oleander seeds (Thevetia peruviana) was a common method...

Correspondence to Umesh Jayarajah, MD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, PO Box 271, Kynsey Road, Colombo 8, Western Province, Sri Lanka Tel: +94-76-680-8625 E-mail: umeshe.jaya@ gmail.com Received: Dec 16, 2016 Accepted: Dec 19, 2016 Online First: Dec 21, 2016 Cite this article as: Jayarajah U, Jayakody AJA, Jayaneth MBJN, Wijeratne S. Prevalence of hypertension and its associated fa...