COMMENTARY good doctors for indian villages "Knowledge advances NOT by repeating known facts; but by REFUTING false dogmas " Karl Popper The usual complaints from politicians are that doctors do not go to villages. They try and devise quick-fix measures; some of them might even look draconian. Nothing seems to work in the long run. I have been hearing this for decades. In the year 1982 I had wr...

extended in an oblique direction 3 inches into the substance of the tumour stopping short of the tunica vaginalis. The right sac was empty, the left contained some chylous dropsical fluid. There was no doubt that the sores had been produced during life. In the contents of bottle containing portions of the tumour, scrotal sac, testicle, and some of the fluid removed from the sac, the Chemical Ex...

service have been in progress through the formation of health units, that the question of ^proving and extending water supplies in the rural areas has received attention and that the provision of a cheap but satisfactorysystem of night-soil disposal has also been Under investigation. A health unit is an Organization set up in an area with a population approximately 40,000 for the purpose of stu...

INTRODUCTION Inaccessibility due to terrain and lack of transport leaves mothers travelling for long hours before reaching a facility to deliver a child. In the present article we analyzed the issue of spatial inaccessibility and inequity of maternal health services in the Indian Sundarbans where complex topography and repeated climatic adversities make access to health services very difficult....

We develop a star-network of connections between a central city and peripheral villages and analyze the epidemic dynamics of a vector-borne disease as influenced by daily commuters. We obtain an analytical solution for the global basic reproductive number R0 and investigate its dependence on key parameters for disease control. We find that in a star-network topology the central hub is not alway...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is not considered to be a characteristic of endemic nephropathy (EN). Recent observations suggested that it might be more prevalent than it was reported before. AIM The aim of our study was to analyze prevalence, treatment and control of hypertension in a Croatian endemic area. METHODS In the present cross-sectional study, 1,602 farmers were enrolled, 1,246 from EN a...

A study was carried out in six villages located at different altitudes in Mpwapwa district of central Tanzania to determine malaria parasitaemia and transmission levels in villages with or without health care facilities. A total of 1119 schoolchildren (age = 5.9-12.3 years) were examined for malaria parasitaemia. Plasmodiumfalciparum was the predominant malaria species accounting for 92.8% of a...

This paper focuses on conditions in forestry villages in the northern rayony of Perm’ oblast’, inEuropean Russia, which form part of the Russian "Near North". It describes the collapse of thelocal forestry economy after 1991, and against the backdrop of these economic conditions, thepaper then discusses the survival strategies being employed by the inhabitants of the villages of...

A random survey was conducted to study the epidemiology of brucellosis in Punjab (India), using the 'Survey Toolbox' sampling software. A two-stage sampling procedure was adopted: in the first stage, villages were selected, and in the second the selection of animals was made. In all, 52 villages were selected randomly from a sampling frame of all the villages of Punjab. The total number of anim...