The state of West Bengal has witnessed fertility transition during the last decade, though the level of infant and child mortality remained at a high level, particularly among the socio-economically disadvantaged communities. At the same time, the adoption of female sterilization has increased substantially. Adoption of sterilization in low fertility situation combined with relatively higher le...

Elavarasan Subramani, Priyanka Banerjee, Chaitali Dattaray, Debashis Chakrabarty, Baidyanath Chakravarty and Koel Chaudhury School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, West Bengal, India Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGME&R) and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata 700020, West Bengal, Indi...

BACKGROUND The study area is the Birbhum district of the State of West Bengal in India. It is one of the backward districts in India. OBJECTIVE The paper investigates the existing pattern of obstetric health care practices and the factors associated with the utilization of such care. METHOD The present analysis includes 495 adult married women of both rural and urban areas of nine Blocks of...

1Surender Kumar, 2Saurav Banerjee, 2Hemlata Dwivedi, 3Tapas Gupta, 4Ardhendu Banerjee 1Postgraduate Trainee, Department of Prosthodontics, Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 2Postgraduate Student, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 3Professor, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dr R Ahmed Dent...

*****Department of Pediatrics, Midnapore Medical College, Midnapore, West Bengal, India Objective: Post herpetic neuralgia is a most common complication of herpes zoster which is difficult to treat. Significant beneficial effects found when treated with antiviral, tricyclic antidepressant, anticonvulsive like gabapentine and pregabalin, opioid and non opioid analgesic etc. Primary prevention ca...

INTRODUCTION Knowledge of inter-district variations in immunisation coverage and the reasons for their existence is of utmost importance in a region in which variations in the socioeconomic factors are known to have a marked influence on immunisation coverage. METHODS This study was based on a sample of 1,279 children aged 12-35 months. Data was obtained from the District Level Household Surv...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Pigmentation and keratosis are the prerequisites to diagnose arsenicosis. However, many systemic manifestations occur in association with pigmentation and keratosis in people exposed to chronic drinking of arsenic contaminated water. The present study aim to find out whether systemic manifestations occur in significant number of cases in arsenic exposed people in the abse...