Publications

List of published articles contributed by IPSI team on primary health care.

The Lancet series- Primary health care in South Asia

The Lancet series- Primary health care in South Asia was published in August 2024. Co-authors of papers in this series include members of the IPSI team from JHU and AIIMS, Delhi.

Prinja, Shankar, Neha Purohit, Navneet Kaur, Lalini Rajapaksa, Malabika Sarker, Raza Zaidi, Sara Bennett, and Krishna D. Rao. “The state of primary health care in south Asia.” The Lancet Global Health (2024).

Ahmed, Syed Masud, Anand Krishnan, Obaida Karim, Kashif Shafique, Nahitun Naher, Sanjida Ahmed Srishti, Aravind Raj, Sana Ahmed, Lal Rawal, and Alayne Adams. “Delivering non-communicable disease services through primary health care in selected south Asian countries: are health systems prepared?.” The Lancet Global Health (2024).

Rao, Krishna D., Mohan Bairwa, Akriti Mehta, Sana Hyat, Rushdia Ahmed, Lalini Rajapaksa, and Alayne M. Adams. “Improving urban health through primary health care in South Asia.” The Lancet Global Health (2024).

Shrestha, Prakriti, Kaosar Afsana, Manuj C. Weerasinghe, Henry B. Perry, Harsha Joshi, Nisha Rana, Zahid Ali Memon et al. “Strengthening primary health care through community health workers in South Asia.” The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia (2024).

Perera, Susie, Sudha Ramani, Taufique Joarder, Rajendra S. Shukla, Shehla Zaidi, Nalinda Wellappuli, Syed Masud Ahmed et al. “Reorienting health systems towards Primary Health Care in South Asia.” The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia (2024).

Shroff, Zubin Cyrus, Anas Ismail, Kaosar Afsana, Manuj Weerasinghe, and Krishna D. Rao. “Engaging non-state providers towards PHC in South Asia: considerations for policymakers.” The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia (2024).

Rao, Krishna D., Shankar Prinja, Sayed Masud, Kaosar Afsana, Susie Perera, Sudha Ramani, and Manuj C. Weerasinghe. “Primary health care in South Asia: a time for reform.” The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia (2024).

Rao, Krishna D., Akriti Mehta, Caitlin Noonan, Michael A. Peters, and Henry Perry. “Voting with their feet: Primary care provider choice and its implications for public sector primary care services in India.” Social Science & Medicine 340 (2024): 116414.

Rajan, Varsha, Priyamadhaba Behera, Suravi Patra, Arvind Kumar Singh, and Binod Kumar Patro. “Prevalence of common mental disorders and treatment gap among patients with non-communicable diseases in the rural areas of East India.” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2024): 1-8.

Dora, Susmita, Prem S. Panda, Manish Taywade, and Binod K. Patro. “Organizing Health Camp: Opportunities for Building Public Health Skills.” Indian Journal of Community Medicine 49, no. 1 (2024): 228-230.

Behera, Priyamadhaba, Binod Kumar Patro, Arvind Kumar Singh, Susmita Dora, Debapriya Bandhopadhyay, Gautom Kumar Saharia, Anupam Dey, Surama Manjari Behera, and Sonu H. Subba. “Effectiveness of peer-led intervention in control of non-communicable diseases in rural areas of Khordha district: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.” Trials 25, no. 1 (2024): 22.

Rao, Krishna D., Akriti Mehta, Hunied Kautsar, Mohini Kak, Ghassan Karem, Madhavi Misra, Harsha Joshi, Christopher H. Herbst, and Henry B. Perry. “Improving quality of non-communicable disease services at primary care facilities in middle-income countries: A scoping review.” Social Science & Medicine 320 (2023): 115679.

Rao, Krishna, and Austin Schmidt. “Human Resources for Health in South-East Asia: Challenges and Strategies.” WHO South-East Asia journal of public health 12, no. 1 (2023): 1-3.

Sharma, Atul, Shankar Prinja, Krishna Dipankar Rao, and Arun Kumar Aggarwal. “Human Resources for Health in Haryana, India: What can be Done Better?.” WHO South-East Asia journal of public health 12, no. 1 (2023): 4-14.

Ramani, Sudha, Eleanor Beth Whyle, and Nancy Kagwanja. “What research evidence can support the decolonisation of global health? Making space for deeper scholarship in global health journals.” The Lancet Global Health 11, no. 9 (2023): e1464-e1468.

Shukla, Pallavi, Harsh Priya, Jitendra K. Meena, Sanjay Singh, Mohan Bairwa, and Archana Saini. “Readiness and Motivation of ASHAs towards Their Participation in Non-Communicable Disease Control Programmein North India: A Cross Sectional Study.” Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention: APJCP 24, no. 9 (2023): 3235.

Sharma, Neeraj, Vinod Kumar Sv, Daya K. Mangal, Yogita Sharma, Mohan Bairwa, and Bontha V. Babu. “Pattern of road traffic injuries and their pre-hospitalization factors reported at a public tertiary healthcare facility and rural private healthcare facility in Rajasthan, India.” Cureus 15, no. 5 (2023).

Chandra, Ankit, Ravneet Kaur, Mohan Bairwa, Sanjay Rai, and Baridalyne Nongkynrih. “Monitoring of non-communicable diseases in a primary healthcare setting in India: a quality improvement initiative.” Cureus 15, no. 4 (2023).

Sahu, Sujata, Kripalini Patel, Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Binod Kumar Patro, Sudeshna Pradhan, Sandeep Kumar Tripathy, and Sunita Jena. “Live Experience of Community Health Workers on Respectful Maternity Care in Rural Odisha, India: A Phenomenological Study.” International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health 10 (10) (2023): 3607–12.

Behera, Priyamadhaba, Debkumar Pal, Chandra S. Sirka, Binod K. Patro, Dinesh P. Sahu, Siddhartha Dash, and Manish Taywade. “Development and Validation of the ScAbIeS Tool for Diagnosing Scabies by Community Healthcare Workers in Resource-Limited Settings.” Cureus 15, no. 7 (2023).

Bist, Rekha Rani, Kripalini Patel, Sudeshna Pradhan, Binod Kumar Patro, Sandeep Kumar Tripathy, Pavan Kumar Gollapalli, and Sunita Jena. “What they know about their work, barriers, and challenges faced by the community health workers while performing their multiple roles: mixed method study in India.” International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health 10, no. 6 (2023): 2228.

Dora, Susmita, Debjyoti Mohapatra, Manish Taywade, Binod Kumar Patro, and Vikas Bhatia. “Assessment of mother and child protection card utility in a rural block of Odisha.” Journal of Public Health and Primary Care 4, no. 1 (2023): 25-29.

Behera, Binod K., Binod K. Patro, and Biswanath Padhi. “Continuum Diabetes Care among Tuberculosis Patients in a Rural Block of Eastern Odisha.” Indian Journal of Community Medicine 48, no. 1 (2023): 172-176.

By Misra, Madhavi, Harsha Joshi, Rakesh Sarwal, and Krishna D. Rao. “Exit strategies from lockdowns due to COVID-19: a scoping review.” BMC Public Health 22, no. 1 (2022): 488.

Ramani, Sudha, Rakesh Parashar, Nobhojit Roy, Arpana Kullu, Rakhal Gaitonde, Ramya Ananthakrishnan, Sanjida Arora et al. “How to work with intangible software in public health systems: some experiences from India.” Health Research Policy and Systems 20, no. 1 (2022): 52.

Das, Priya, Sudha Ramani, Tom Newton-Lewis, Phalasha Nagpal, Karima Khalil, Dipanwita Gharai, Shamayita Das, and Rochana Kammowanee. “”We are nurses–what can we say?”: power asymmetries and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives in an Indian state.” Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 29, no. 2 (2022): 2031598.

Ramani, Sudha, Rama Sridhar, Sushma Shende, Shreya Manjarekar, Sonali Patil, Shanti Pantvaidya, Armida Fernandez, and Anuja Jayaraman. “Implementing a “convergent” framework of action against childhood malnutrition in urban informal settlements of Mumbai: Frontline perspectives.” Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 10, no. 10 (2021): 3600-3605.

Ramani, Sudha, Lucy Gilson, Muthusamy Sivakami, and Nilesh Gawde. “Sometimes resigned, sometimes conflicted, and mostly risk averse: primary care doctors in India as street level bureaucrats.” International journal of health policy and management 10, no. 7 (2021): 376.