Road to Demedicalization- Need of Hour in Public Health

Medicalization is the process whereby previously non-medical aspects of life are seen in medical terms, usually as disorders or illnesses. It is based on the biomedical model of disease, which sees behaviors, conditions...

Health-seeking pathway of patients coming to a tertiary care hospital in Vadodara City

It is often seen that a Government hospital is preferred by those patients who cannot afford the health-care costs in other hospitals. In the absence of a systematic referral system, the follow-up of...

Use of WHO Anthro Software for Assessing under Nutrition (Wasting, Stunting & Underweight) amongst Under-Five Children of District Ahmedabad, Gujarat

nutrition among urban and rural population of Gujarat using newly developed WHO growth standards. Method: Community based cross-sectional study was done, in which 504 under-five children were studied from Anganwadis in b...

Common errors made during presentation of papers at conferences.

Knowledge of HIV /AIDS, STI and condom use among the Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) of Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, India

Background: IDUs are vulnerable of acquiring HIV/STI due their injecting practices and high risk behaviour. Objectives: To assess the knowledge of IDUs about HIV/AIDS and STI. Methods: It was a cross sec...