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Never Judge a Book by Its Cover-The Socio-Cultural Aspects of Non-Epileptic Seizures in India-A Case Study
(Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023) Bhattacharya, Sudip; Tripathi, Shailesh; Marzo, Roy Rillera; Gökdemir, Özden; Borocco, Maddona
Health for All will never be attained if sociocultural bias and pervasive hypocrisy are not eliminated. The patient mentioned in this case study had difficulty gaining access to health care for more than two decades. The seizure history was modified due to social pressure. The primary healthcare workers' ability to provide timely access to healthcare regardless of caste, religion, or gender, even in the most remote regions of the country, is of paramount importance. The patient was diagnosed with hypoparathyroidism and treated with calcium and vitamin D in high oral doses. The case also illustrates the significance of medical examination in preventing future difficulties in patients with presenile cataract.
Never Judge a Book by Its Cover-The Socio-Cultural Aspects of Non-Epileptic Seizures in India-A Case Study
(Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023) Bhattacharya, Sudip; Tripathi, Shailesh; Marzo, Roy Rillera; Gökdemir, Özden; Borocco, Maddona
Health for All will never be attained if sociocultural bias and pervasive hypocrisy are not eliminated. The patient mentioned in this case study had difficulty gaining access to health care for more than two decades. The seizure history was modified due to social pressure. The primary healthcare workers' ability to provide timely access to healthcare regardless of caste, religion, or gender, even in the most remote regions of the country, is of paramount importance. The patient was diagnosed with hypoparathyroidism and treated with calcium and vitamin D in high oral doses. The case also illustrates the significance of medical examination in preventing future difficulties in patients with presenile cataract.
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Optimizing the Impact of Health and Related Programmes / Policies To Address the Issue of Childhood Obesity in India- Narrative Review
(Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021) Bera, Om Prakash; Saleem, Sheikh Mohd; Singh, Dhananjay Kumar; Gokdemir, Ozden; Tripathi, Shailesh; Ghatak, Nishantadeb; Hossain, Md Mahbub
Non-communicable diseases are already acknowledged as a double burden, and now childhood obesity is putting extra strain on our health system. The current paper aimed to analyze the ongoing health and related programmes/policies in India, and we discussed the existing opportunities in the programmes to address the issue of childhood obesity in India. We searched the MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases using the following keywords: (overweight) and (obesity), (childhood obesity), (nutritional programmes in India), (Health policies in India), (malnourished children in India) in combination with each other and in truncated form. All the relevant articles and policy documents (MOHFW, INDIA) available in the public domain were included to support the argument for this narrative review. We found that we have programme gaps like guidelines issues by Food Safety Standards Authority of India to tackle childhood obesity and it has not been strictly implemented due to multiple reasons. School health programme has an opportunity to address the issue of childhood obesity, but at the ground level the outcomes are not very promising. The National Nutrition Mission have only focussed on undernutrition and anemia problem, ignoring the overweight/childhood obesity. Primary care physicians are key players in the treatment of childhood obesity, yet rates of obesity management in the primary care setting are low. National Programme for prevention & Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases & stroke is dealing with health promotion and prevention, early diagnosis, and management of all ages, except children. Diet provided in Integrated Child Development Scheme is calculated based on calories, not by the quality which is a concern to us. The breastfeeding promotion programme named Mothers Absolute Affection programme has not been implemented with letter and spirit. Other than health programmes, we assume that Ministry of Urban Planning, Foreign Direct Investment policy, Advertisement Council of India and many more sector/policy/programme are indirectly responsible for the increasing burden of childhood obesity in India. Lack of awareness and wrong perception also responsible for the development of childhood obesity. We have multiple National Health Programmes and Policies to address the childhood malnutrition, but are focussing the undernutrition component only, ignoring overnutrition problem in the children, which is emerging as quadruple burden to our health system. Appropriate actions and inclusion of suggestions provided in this study for the improvement of the programmes at the practical level needs to be considered by the policy makers to halt the ever-rising trend of childhood obesity and primary care physicians should play a leadership role.