Anjali Chauhan

• Master of Public Health
• State Program Officer at Himachal Pradesh Department of Health

Under Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), adolescent friendly health centers (AFHC) entail a whole gamut of clinical, counseling and referral services on diverse adolescent health issues ranging from sexual and reproductive health to nutrition, substance abuse, injuries, violence, non-communicable diseases and mental health issues at variou...

The synergistic effect of COVID-19 and NCDs has the potential to augment the global burden of the disease. People living with NCDs like diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney diseases, heart failure, cancer or any other cardiovascular disease are more prone for acquiring severe infection due to COVID-19. With this background, a study was done on a...

The Covid-19 pandemic has made sudden lifestyle changes because of nationwide lockdowns, making it compulsory to isolate at home, which has affected the daily habits and lifestyle routines of millions. In the beginning, reports indicated that Covid-19 virus was mostly affecting older people, but later was found that the youth and young adults were...

Good health is an essence for national development. The health and education are fundamental in our quest to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Schools provide a rostrum to improve both the education and health status of learners throughout the nation. The School Health and Wellness Programme under AYUSHMAN BHARAT is a joint collaborative...

The pandemic spread by the novel corona virus identied in Wuhan China in the year 2019 has massive hit on every aspect of individual life. Like many other countries India had imposed nationwide complete lockdown on March 2020. Since India was facing Lockdown for the rst time in its history and the stringent measures taken to implement lockdown ha...

Objectives Based on the global experience, India has the possibility to be highly affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To contain the spread of the infection, a complete lockdown was enforced from March 25 to May 31, 2020 in India. During the unlock phase from June 1, 2020, only limited mobility was allowed. At present, in the...

The decision to frame guidelines for rabies prophylaxis has been taken in the wake of new World Health Organisation (WHO) rabies prophylaxis guidelines, 2018 wherein research done in Himachal has contributed immensely. New WHO guidelines are dose, cost and time sparing and patient friendly. Himachal Pradesh has done well in providing free rabies pr...

Rabies annually causes 20,000 deaths in India and this figure has not changed for the last decade. This review was done retrospectively to analyze the reasons for deaths due to rabies, registered at Indira Gandhi Medical College Shimla since 2009. We investigated 19 deaths due to rabies in the past 7‑year period. Of these, five were caused by “scra...

Background: “Healthy mind resides in the healthy body” is a popular dictum, which is more relevant in today’s modern sedentary lifestyle of human beings .The International comparisons shows that level of low physical activity is one of the major independent factors of chronic diseases .The doctor’s occupation is one of the time demanding, left them...

With the threat of the emerging and reemerging infections (especially viral), it is time to gear up our health care facilities to tackle this menace. This short observational study conducted in the Out Patient Department of Emergency Department (ED), Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh in the month of Augu...