There is belief in South Indian villages that epidemics are due to evil spirits surrounding the villages. The propitiating of Gods and Goddesses to get rid of diseases in these villages are discussed. The Christian and Muslin traditions to cure the diseases by practising religion are also discussed.

try in an uneven distribution. Roma people live in around 2,000 of Hungary's 3,200 settlements. With regard to regional distribution, census data suggest the highest concentrations are in the regions of Northern Hungary and the Northern Alföld (Great Hungarian Plain). Although the proportion of Roma living in towns and cities has increased considerably in comparison to the 1970's, the majority ...

Finger Millet samples are collected from different villages affected with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Uddanam area of Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh, India. These samples are analyzed using Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF). The trace elements P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Se are identified and compared with NIST Apple leaf-1515. The impact of each element on human physio...

There are many villages in India with sizeable populations that have no means of using telephony for communication within the village. We identify sparse multi-hop wireless networks carrying packetised voice as a quick, cost-e ective and exible solution for rural telecommunication. We discuss design considerations for such a network and de ne a metric called reachability that is useful in evalu...

The surname is a cultural trait that is extremely useful for historical and linguistic studies and can effectively be used as a genetic marker. In many human populations the surname is inherited in the paternal lineage, and can therefore be considered a marker for the Y chromosome. In this study, surnames were recorded from the white pages of telephone directories in current use in Corsica in 1...

from children; those above ten years of age, therefore, have only been taken account of. This dispensary serves many villages but those situated within an area of about 100 square miles send patients almost daily. The villages within this area are thirty in number. They are all small villages with populations varying from 190 to 1,440. This group is not wholly dependent upon this dispensary for...

Methods In this endline evaluation of the MVP, we retrospectively selected comparison villages that best matched the project villages on possible confounding variables. Cross-sectional survey data on 40 outcomes of interest were collected from both the project and the comparison villages in 2015. Using these data, as well as on-site spending data collected during the project, we estimated proje...

s 57 Fluoride 35 (1) 2002 was no correlation between gender and the prevalence of fluorosis, but the prevalence and severity of skeletal fluorosis increased with increasing fluoride concentration and age. Possible factors causing variation in fluorosis in the cattle and buffaloes in villages with identical fluoride concentrations are discussed. Author: Choubisa SL. For Correspondence: P.G. Depa...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of modest non-financial incentives on immunisation rates in children aged 1-3 and to compare it with the effect of only improving the reliability of the supply of services. DESIGN Clustered randomised controlled study. SETTING Rural Rajasthan, India. PARTICIPANTS 1640 children aged 1-3 at end point. INTERVENTIONS 134 villages were randomised to one of th...

In recent years, news of ‘‘cancer villages” in the Huaihe River Basin filled front and back pages of newspapers and generated elevated concern among readers. This study aims to understand the relationship between the ‘‘cancer villages” and the ‘‘large cities” around them. A gravity model is constructed to analyze the correlation between ‘‘big cities” and ‘‘cancer villages” in terms of indices i...