Nalin Singh Negi

Vital Strategies · Policy Advocacy and Communication

Background Alcohol imposes a significant burden on health, social and economic systems in Sri Lanka. In the present economic crisis taxes on alcohol provides necessary revenue increases. Yet, the perception of the public on alcohol policies in Sri Lanka is not well explored. Objectives This opinion survey was conducted with the aim to understand t...

Introduction: In Colombia, road traffic crashes are the eighth leading cause of death. In 2017, as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), Vital Strategies supported government-led journalist trainings in Colombia to shift media discourse of road safety as a public health and development issue with known risk...

Background Positive portrayals of tobacco use in entertainment media can normalize and perpetuate use. In 2012, the Government of India implemented the Tobacco-Free Film and Television Rules, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive regulation to restrict tobacco depiction in films and television programs. Two complementary studies were undertaken to asse...

Background: This study assesses the effectiveness of a campaign "Are We Drinking Ourselves Sick?" that ran nationally in Jamaica in four phases from 2017 to 2019 to increase knowledge about the harms of sugary drinks, shift attitudes, and build support for policy actions to address sugary drink consumption, including a tax and a ban in schools. M...

Introduction The risk of road traffic death is three times higher in low income countries than in high-income countries (WHO, 2018). Mass media social marketing campaigns can play an important role in road safety programs by increasing road user knowledge, promoting specific safety behaviours and contributing to the development of shared social nor...

To date, there is no published study on message testing of TB mass media campaigns, including in India. This report presents results of a message testing study of potential public service announcement concepts for a TB campaign in India. Among the tested concepts, we found concepts that focused on the health consequences of TB and used an execution...

Background: In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, road traffic crashes represent a major public health challenge. Driving under the influence of alcohol (drink driving) is a risk factor for road traffic crashes. Mass media campaigns can reduce the prevalence of drink driving. Few studies to date have evaluated the influence of anti-drink-driving campaigns on c...

Background and aims Exposure to tobacco, alcohol and fast-food use in films is associated with initiation of these behaviours. India is the world’s largest film producer, but the extent of such imagery in Bollywood (Hindi cinema) films is unclear. We therefore aimed to describe the extent of and trends in tobacco, alcohol and fast-food imagery in B...

This book critically examines the socio-economic impacts of out-migration on households and gender dynamics in rural northern India. The first of its kind, this study unearths, through detailed regional and demographical research, the ways in which economic and migratory trends of male family members in rural India in general, and hilly regions of...

Use of social media as part of integrated approach to support tobacco graphic health warnings and cessation related behaviours

Background: Effective message design is essential if lung health communication programs are to be cost efficient as well as meeting behavioural objectives. Strong and scientific methodology of message testing precedes development of any mass media campaign. There is a need of a careful combination of scientific content and marketing expertise to ma...

Background Tobacco consumption is a critical concern in populous low-income countries, like India. The social acceptability of tobacco perpetuates its use: the positive portrayal of tobacco in the media has been associated with increased consumption of tobacco. Hence, to counter the pro-tobacco imagery in the visual media, the Government of India m...

Background The, “Leaving No One Behind” report to address the Sustainable Development Goals, recommends approaches to reduce long-term vulnerability and generate sustainable, meaningful change. Evidence from Bangladesh points to a higher burden of tobacco related morbidity and mortality in “most at risk populations” with vulnerability largely due t...

Background and challenges to implementation India introduced a Goods and Services Tax (GST), effective 1 July 2017. There was ambiguity on how tobacco would be taxed - cigarettes were known to be in the highest tax bracket, there was possibility bidi would fall under the ´essential commodities tax rate of 5% and there was no information about smoke...

Background and challenges to implementation On June 1 st , 2015, a remarkable 100% Smoke Free Law came into effect in Beijing. On January 1 st , 2017, Shenzhen became 100% smoke free city and on March 1 st , 2017 the Shanghai smoke free law came into effect. As a result, over 60 million population in China are now protected from second-hand smoke (...

Background Effective message design is essential if lung health communication programs are to be cost efficient as well as meeting behavioural objectives. Strong and scientific methodology of message testing precedes development of any mass media campaign. There is a need of a careful combination of scientific content and marketing expertise to mak...

Background and challenges to implementation Almost 16 million Vietnamese adults currently smoke tobacco, including 45.3% of men and 1.1% of women. In Vietnam more women die from tobacco-related disease (9.5%) than smoke cigarettes, suggesting that women suffer disproportionately greater illness and premature death from exposure to secondhand smoke...

Background Social media, synergised with mass media, may provide a powerful, low-cost channel of communication for public health interventions, including promotion of new policies such as graphic health warnings on tobacco packs. However, the evidence on the efficacy of social media to support tobacco control within low -and middle-income countries...

Resource constraints within low -and middle-income countries (LMICs) require the development of policies to support sustainable programming of tobacco control mass media campaigns. The Government of India enacted the Film and Television rule in 2012, which mandated anti-tobacco messages be placed prior to and during TV or cinema content depicting t...

India has the highest burden of TB, with estimated incidence of 2.2 million out of a global incidence of 9 million. Drug resistant TB (MDR TB), which is rapidly rising in India, is known mostly to occur from the failure of patients to adhere to drug regimens. Therefore, early diagnosis and adherence to treatment regimens are important determinants...

Background Tobacco control mass media campaigns are cost-effective in reducing tobacco consumption in high-income countries, but similar evidence from low-income countries is limited. An evaluation of a 2009 smokeless tobacco control mass media campaign in India provided an opportunity to test its cost-effectiveness. Methods Campaign evaluation da...

ABSTRACT Background There is evidence from high income countries, and growing evidence from low –and middle-income countries, of the efficacy of pictorial warnings to build risk perceptions of the health effects of tobacco, with users and the general public. As well as being a highly cost-effective policy initiative in resource constrained settings...

Poster outlines formative research and findings from communication campaign materials to support tobacco pictorial warnings in Bangladesh. Findings point to the potential for social media synergised with tobacco control messages on other communication channels to impact on attitudes, intentions and cessation related behaviours of tobacco users.

BACKGROUND - WHO has identified the need for policy makers making investments in order to tackle risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), to assess interventions based on their: i) health impact; ii) cost-effectiveness; iii) cost of implementation; and iv) feasibility of scale-up, particularly in resource constrained settings. One of the...

Uttarakhand is a state with mountainous terrain separated from Uttar Pradesh, a state lagging in demographic transition. After separation, dual divergent demographic regimes emerged in Uttarakhand. Higher rates of fertility, as well as of infant and maternal mortality, positioned Uttarakhand with its parent state, Uttar Pradesh. Correspondingly, hi...

Women's empowerment is a major concern in the developing world and is emerging as an important indicator of the development of a society as well as the status of women. In this paper, we study empowerment of women in families which have experienced the migration of their male members. A direct relationship between migration of a husband and a woman...

India has invested in industrial projects, dams, roads, mines, power plants and new cities to achieve rapid economic growth. Available reports indicate that more than 21 million people are internally displaced populations (IDPs) due to development projects in India Although the tribal population only makes up eight percent of the total population,...

The study examines the influence of socio-economic and demographic variables (age, social class, religion, marital duration, surviving children etc.) on the utilization of Antenatal care (ANC) services from public or other health professionals among tribals and non-tribals. It also examines the effect of availability and accessibility of Reproducti...

Two divergent views confront each other from the perspective of the management of family affairs by left behind wives due to husbands' out-migration. Some opine that left behind wives takes an active role in the management of family affairs whereas others believe that many are confronted for the first time with major responsibilities and are ill-pr...