Partha Nandi

• MBBS, MD.,
• Professor (Full) at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute

Research Question: What are the antenatal care practices and places of deliveries among rural women in Pondicherry District? Setting: Rural field practice areas of Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Pondicherry. Study Design: Cross Sectional Study. Sample Size: 371 mothers Methodology: House to house survey among 371 mothers, each...

Background: Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was designed to improve reliability of the clinical examination. Objective of the study was to find the effectiveness of OCSE in comparison with the conventional method this study was con-ducted in Community Medicine end-posting examination. Methods: An educational interventional study wa...

Research Question: What is the effect of maternal literacy status and socio-economic status on child survival? Setting: The study was done in the villages of field practicing area under Community Medicine of MGMC&RI, Puducherry. Design: Community based cross sectional study. Participants: 371 mothers having at least one living child delivered have...

Background Globally the prevalence of both hypertension and pre-hypertension are increasing and pre-hypertension has been associated with higher cardiovascular risk. The objective of this study was to find out the prevalence of undiagnosed hypertension and pre-hypertension and associated covariates among adults of rural and urban area of Puducherry...

Background: Globally there are 45 million people blind, 90% of these live in developing countries and more than 80% blindness is preventable or curable. In south-east asia, cataract is the single most common cause of blindness being responsible for 50-80% of all blindness. In India, 62.6% blindness is due to cataract. Objectives: To estimate the pr...

Background Vaccination, albeit a necessity in the prevention of infectious diseases, requires appropriate strategies for addressing vaccine hesitancy at an individual and community level. However, there remains a glaring scarcity of available literature in that regard. Therefore, this review aims to scrutinize globally tested interventions to incre...

The electronic vaccine intelligence network (eVIN) was introduced by India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 12 states and was implemented by the United Nations Development Programme through the Gavi health system strengthening support during 2014–17 to replace the traditional paper-based cold-chain management system with an electronic vac...

eVIN is a technology system that digitizes vaccine stocks through a smartphone application and builds the capacity of program managers and cold chain handlers to integrate technology in their regular work. To effectively manage the vaccine logistics, in 2015, this technology was rolled-out in 12 states of India. This study assessed the programmatic...

eVIN is a technology system that digitizes vaccine stocks through a smartphone application and builds the capacity of program managers and cold chain handlers to integrate technology in their regular work. To effectively manage the vaccine logistics, in 2015, this technology was rolled-out in 12 states of India. This study assessed the programmatic...

Background: Vaccination, albeit a necessity in the prevention of infectious diseases, requires appropriate strategies for addressing vaccine hesitancy at an individual and community level. However, there remains a glaring scarcity of available literature in that regard. Therefore, this review aims to scrutinize globally tested interventions to incr...

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for CDFIT – Community Diagnosis and Feasible Intervention Training

Background: Adolescent population occupies 1/5th of world’s population and in India 20.9% of the population falls into this age group. Social prohibitions and traditional beliefs blocked the access to get the right kind of information to adolescent girls that led to poor hygiene practices. These practices results in harbouring of micro-organisms th...

Background: The basics of prehospital care of fracture is essential to the practice of medicine. Objectives: The study was intended to increases the knowledge in the applied aspects of basic prehospital care of fracture and evaluate the posttraining effectiveness of medical students. Materials and Methods: The World Health Organization (WHO) promot...

Background: Adolescent population occupies 1/5th of world’s population and in India 20.9% of the population falls into this age group. Social prohibitions and traditional beliefs blocked the access to get the right kind of information to adolescent girls that led to poor hygiene practices. These practices results in harbouring of micro-organisms th...