A Study on Knowledge and Practices Regarding Hand Hygiene and Factors Affecting its Adherence among Healthcare Providers of a Tertiary Care Hospital of South Gujarat

Introduction: About 1.4 million people around the world become seriously ill from Health Care Associated Infections at any given time. The risk of infection in developing countries is 2 to 20 times higher than in develop...

A Cross-Sectional Study of Assessment of Quality of Life among Adolescents with Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus in Bhavnagar, Gujarat

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is on the rise and is a prevalent chronic disease in middle and low income countries. Type-1 diabetes mellitus usually develops during infancy and adolescents and as a chronic condition ha...

The Treatment Effect Comparison through Level of Microalbuminuria in Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Bayesian Approach

The microalbuminuria is defined as small quantities of albumin in the urine. It is highly prevalent in type 2 diabetic population and useful to measure the severity of kidney damage. A Poisson and Negative-binomial model...

Respiratory Morbidities among Workers Employed in Cotton Industries in Surendranagar City

Introduction: According to a publication in 1986by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Pneumoconiosis and Smoking, workers in cotton processing industries have the risk of developing obstructive respiratory conditions...

Current Health Status of Women in India - Issues and Challenges