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  2. Cardio-metabolic diseases (CMDs) are a growing public health problem, but data on incidence, trends, and costs in developing countries is scarce. Comprehensive and standardised surveillance for non-communicabl...

    Authors: Manisha Nair, Mohammed K Ali, Vamadevan S Ajay, Roopa Shivashankar, Viswanathan Mohan, Rajendra Pradeepa, Mohan Deepa, Hassan M Khan, Muhammad M Kadir, Zafar A Fatmi, K Srinath Reddy, Nikhil Tandon, KM Venkat Narayan and Dorairaj Prabhakaran
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2012 12:701
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  3. Almost one in three married Indian women have ever experienced physical, sexual, or emotional violence from husbands in their lifetime. We aimed to investigate the preliminary effects of community mobilisation...

    Authors: Nirmala Nair, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin, Suchitra Rath, Sumitra Gagrai, Rebati Sahu, Hemanta Pradhan, Megha De, Gauri Ambavkar, Nibha Das, G. Pramila Dungdung, Damini Mohan, Bahadur Munda, Vijay Singh, Prasanta Tripathy and Audrey Prost
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. In places with poor vital registration, measurement of maternal mortality and monitoring the impact of interventions on maternal mortality is difficult and seldom undertaken. Mortality ratios are often estimat...

    Authors: Sarah Barnett, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Jo Borghi, Suchitra Rath and Anthony Costello
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2008 8:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Maternal morbidity is more common than maternal death, and population-based estimates of the burden of maternal morbidity could provide important indicators for monitoring trends, priority setting and evaluati...

    Authors: Edward Fottrell, Ulf Högberg, Carine Ronsmans, David Osrin, Kishwar Azad, Nirmala Nair, Nicolas Meda, Rasmane Ganaba, Sourou Goufodji, Peter Byass and Veronique Filippi
    Citation: Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2014 11:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Few large and rigorous evaluations of participatory interventions systematically describe their context and implementation, or attempt to explain the mechanisms behind their impact. This study reports process ...

    Authors: Suchitra Rath, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta K Tripathy, Sarah Barnett, Shibanand Rath, Rajendra Mahapatra, Rajkumar Gope, Aparna Bajpai, Rajesh Sinha, Anthony Costello and Audrey Prost
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2010 10:25
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  7. Despite decades of nutrition advocacy and programming, the nutrition situation in South Asian countries is alarming. We assume that modern training in nutrition at the post graduate level is an important contr...

    Authors: Shweta Khandelwal, Tanusree Paul, Lawrence Haddad, Surbhi Bhalla, Stuart Gillespie and Ramanan Laxminarayan
    Citation: BMC Medical Education 2014 14:3
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  8. Jharkhand, a state with substantial tribal population in Eastern India has very high rate of undernutrition. The study tries to understand the social determinants of inequities in under-nutrition (weight-for-a...

    Authors: Keya Chatterjee, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Alok Kumar Kundu, Dhananjay Shankar, Rajkumar Gope, Nirmala Nair and Prasanta K Tripathy
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2016 15:104
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  9. Provision of essential newborn care (ENC) can save many newborn lives in poor resource settings but coverage is far from universal and varies by country and place of delivery. Understanding gaps in current cov...

    Authors: Christina Pagel, Audrey Prost, Munir Hossen, Kishwar Azad, Abdul Kuddus, Swati Sarbani Roy, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Naomi Saville, Aman Sen, Catherine Sikorski, Dharma S Manandhar, Anthony Costello and Sonya Crowe
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2014 14:99
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Around a quarter of the world's neonatal and maternal deaths occur in India. Morbidity and mortality are highest in rural areas and among the poorest wealth quintiles. Few interventions to improve maternal and...

    Authors: Prasanta Tripathy, Nirmala Nair, Rajendra Mahapatra, Shibanand Rath, Raj Kumar Gope, Suchitra Rath, Aparna Bajpai, Vijay Singh, Vikash Nath, Sarfraz Ali, Alok Kumar Kundu, Dibarkar Choudhury, Sanjib Ghosh, Swati Sarbani, Rajesh Sinha, Christina Pagel…
    Citation: Trials 2011 12:182
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  11. Neonatal mortality remains unacceptably high in many low and middle-income countries, including India. A community mobilisation intervention using participatory learning and action with women’s groups facilita...

    Authors: Rajesh Kumar Sinha, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Prasanta Kishore Tripathy, Nirmala Nair, Rajkumar Gope, Shibanand Rath and Audrey Prost
    Citation: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2017 15:2
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Child stunting (low height-for-age) is a marker of chronic undernutrition and predicts children’s subsequent physical and cognitive development. Around one third of the world’s stunted children live in India. ...

    Authors: Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Harshpal S Sachdev, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Rajkumar Gope, Sumitra Gagrai, Shibanand Rath, Suchitra Rath, Rajesh Sinha, Swati Sarbani Roy, Suhas Shewale, Vijay Singh, Aradhana Srivastava, Hemanta Pradhan, Anthony Costello, Andrew Copas…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:384
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  13. Tribal peoples are among the most marginalised groups worldwide. Evidence on birth outcomes in these groups is scant. We describe inequalities in Stillbirth Rate (SBR), Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR), and uptak...

    Authors: Sophie L.P. Busch, Tanja A.J. Houweling, Hemanta Pradhan, Rajkumar Gope, Shibanand Rath, Amit Kumar, Vikash Nath, Audrey Prost and Nirmala Nair
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2022 21:61
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  14. Maternity care in South Asia is available in both public and private sectors. Using data from demographic surveillance sites in Bangladesh, Nepal and rural and urban India, we aimed to compare institutional de...

    Authors: Sushmita Das, Glyn Alcock, Kishwar Azad, Abdul Kuddus, Dharma S. Manandhar, Bhim Prasad Shrestha, Nirmala Nair, Shibanand Rath, Neena Shah More, Naomi Saville, Tanja A. J. Houweling and David Osrin
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:273
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  15. Improving the health and development of adolescents aged 10–19 years is a global health priority. One in five adolescents globally live in India. The Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), India’s national a...

    Authors: Suchitra Rath, Audrey Prost, Subhashree Samal, Hemanta Pradhan, Andrew Copas, Sumitra Gagrai, Shibanand Rath, Raj Kumar Gope, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Komal Bhatia and Kelly Rose-Clarke
    Citation: Trials 2020 21:52
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  16. Maternal and child undernutrition have adverse consequences for pregnancy outcomes and child morbidity and mortality, and they are associated with low educational attainment, economic productivity as an adult,...

    Authors: Suneetha Kadiyala, Audrey Prost, Helen Harris-Fry, Meghan O’Hearn, Ronali Pradhan, Shibananth Pradhan, Naba Kishore Mishra, Suchitra Rath, Nirmala Nair, Shibanand Rath, Prasantha Tripathy, Sneha Krishnan, Peggy Koniz-Booher, Heather Danton, Diana Elbourne, Joanna Sturgess…
    Citation: Trials 2018 19:176
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  17. India is home to 243 million adolescents. Two million (9%) of them belong to Scheduled Tribes living in underserved, rural areas. Few studies have examined the health of tribal adolescents. We conducted a cros...

    Authors: Kelly Rose-Clarke, Hemanta Pradhan, Suchitra Rath, Shibanand Rath, Subhashree Samal, Sumitra Gagrai, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy and Audrey Prost
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:673
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. In India, Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs) are participatory community health forums, but there is little information about their composition, functioning and effectiveness. Our stud...

    Authors: Aradhana Srivastava, Rajkumar Gope, Nirmala Nair, Shibanand Rath, Suchitra Rath, Rajesh Sinha, Prabas Sahoo, Pavitra Mohan Biswal, Vijay Singh, Vikash Nath, HPS Sachdev, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Anthony Costello, Audrey Prost and Sanghita Bhattacharyya
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:59
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  19. Public health interventions are increasingly evaluated using cluster-randomised trials in which groups rather than individuals are allocated randomly to treatment and control arms. Outcomes for individuals wit...

    Authors: Christina Pagel, Audrey Prost, Sonia Lewycka, Sushmita Das, Tim Colbourn, Rajendra Mahapatra, Kishwar Azad, Anthony Costello and David Osrin
    Citation: Trials 2011 12:151
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  20. Tobacco burdens in India and Pakistan require continued efforts to quantify tobacco use and its impacts. We examined the prevalence and sociodemographic and health-related correlates of tobacco use in Delhi, C...

    Authors: Carla J Berg, Vamadevan S. Ajay, Mohammed K. Ali, Dimple Kondal, Hassan M. Khan, Roopa Shivashankar, Rajendra Pradeepa, Deepa Mohan, Zafar Fatmi, Muhammad M. Kadir, Nikhil Tandon, Viswanathan Mohan, KM Venkat Narayan and Dorairaj Prabhakaran
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:483
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