About the Journal

The Journal provides an avenue to medical scientists for publication of original research work so as to facilitate use of research for public health action. The scope of the Journal is broad. Original research articles are invited on public health, primary health care, epidemiology, health administration, health systems, health economics, health promotion, public health nutrition, communicable and non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, occupational and environmental health, social and preventive medicine which have potential to promote evidence-based public health action. The Journal also include editorial, commentaries, perspectives, state of the art reviews, research briefs, policy and practice, reports from the field, public health classics, letters to the editor and book reviews.

Current Issue

Vol. 37 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-02-28

Editorial

  • Expanding PM-JAY to Senior Citizens: A Progressive Step Towards Holistic Health Coverage

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.001
    Annarao Kulkarni, Krupal J Joshi
    01 - 03

Current Updates

  • Commonwealth Declaration for Empowerment of Junior Doctors

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.002
    Venkatesh Karthikeyan, Johnrose Austin Jayalal, V S Hariharan , K M Abul Hasan , Shiv Joshi, Merlinda Shazellenne, Duane Muruga Raj , Indranil Deshmukh, Pablo Estrella Porter, Pradeep Aggarwal
    04 - 07

Case Study

Review Article

  • Civil Registration, Legal Reforms, Public Health, and SDG 16.9: Catalyzing Social Inclusion for Transgender Persons in India

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.004
    Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah, Mokshada Chandge, Ranjit Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Lalita Kumari, Shuchi Shrama
    15 - 21

  • Nutritional Health Programmes in India: How far have we reached?

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.005
    Sylvia George, Aditi Chandrakar, Anjan Kumar Giri
    22 - 26

Original Article

  • Review of Tobacco Industry Interference in Telangana State, India

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.006
    Sonu Goel, Rajesh Bharatiya, Rajeev Kumar, Shravan Kumar, Ravita Yadav, Jatina Vij
    27 - 31

  • Physical Well-being & Health Care Resource Utilization Among the Elderly in Banda District: A Cross-Sectional Study

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.007
    Sandeep Kumar Gupta, Suneel Kumar Kaushal, Mohd Maroof, Lal Divakar Singh
    32 - 40

  • Health-Seeking Behaviour and its Determinants Among Adult Population: A Comparative Study Between Urban and Rural area of Western Uttar Pradesh

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.008
    Banisha Sulthana, Neelam S Gautam, Tanveer Bano, Seema Jain, Sanjeev Kumar
    41 - 46

  • Practices and Knowledge about Safe Pesticide use- a Cross sectional Study amongst Farmers of a district in Odisha, India

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.009
    Tapas Ranjan Senapati, Ipsa Mohapatra, Basanta Kumar Behera, Smruti Ranjan Nayak, Ansuman Kar, Prem Sagar Panda
    47 - 53

  • Prevalence and Patterns of self-medication practices in the urban areas of Belagavi, Karnataka; A Community Based Study

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.010
    Asha A Bellad, Gibin George
    54 - 59

  • Evaluation Of Urban Primary Health Centres Operating Under The Public-Private Partnership Model In The State Of Uttarakhand

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.011
    Ajeet Singh Bhadoria, Manish Chaturvedi, Shantam Mishra, Aprajita Mehta, Sivarchaka Omkarnath
    60 - 69

  • Social Support Systems and Psychosocial Health Conditions: Utilization and Satisfaction among College Students in Chandigarh

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.012
    Dinesh Kumar Walia, Anuj Kumar, Ravleen Kaur Bakshi, Deepak Vashisht
    70 - 78

  • Prevalence of dental Fluorosis and its epidemiological determinants in a Hilly state of India- A Cross-Sectional Study

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.013
    Nidhi Sharma, Vartika Saxena, Pallavi Singh, Rohit Katre, Manisha Naithani, Minakshi Dhar
    79 - 83

  • Navigating Risks: Exploring Sexual and Reproductive Health and Contraceptive Awareness among Adolescent Girls in in District Dehradun

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.014
    Ruchi Juyal, Jayanti Semwal, Deep Shikha, Gagandeep Kaur, Vidisha Vallabh
    84 - 89

  • Association of antenatal care and birth outcome: A community based cross-sectional study in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.015
    Yashvant Singh, Shailendra Singh Chaudhary, Suneel Kumar Kaushal, Mohd. Maroof, Lal Divakar Singh, Tarnnum
    90 - 95

  • Poster Presentation as an Education tool: Use, Views and Reviews from Undergraduate Medical students

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.016
    Bhavya Khattri, Chhavi Kiran Gupta, Manish Garg, Rijul Ranjan, Bhawana Pant, Surabhi Gupta
    96 - 100

  • Psycho-Social and General Health Status of Adolescent Girls in Rural Area of Gurugram, Haryana

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.017
    Sunita Vashist, Nidhi Gupta, Priya Kataria, Aswathy Krishna
    101 - 105

  • Quality of life and its associated factors of Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus patients attending tertiary care hospital, Yavatmal, Central India: A hospital-based cross-sectional study

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.018
    Anchal A Rangari, Vijay K Domple , Pankaj M Kasdekar, Sushama S Thakre
    106 - 113

  • Respiratory tract infection: Current pattern of pathogens involved and related antibiotic resistance observed at a tertiary health care institute of Rajasthan

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.019
    Navgeet Mathur, Yadav Narayan Verma, Medha Mathur
    114 - 118

  • Relationship between Lifestyle habits and the Indian Diabetes Risk Score in a community based study at Meerut

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.020
    Amandeep Kaur, Rahul Bansal, Pawan Parashar, Varsha Chaudhary, Bhawana Pant, Kaynat Nasser
    119 - 123

  • Bagasse dust related morbidities and its determinants among workers at sugarcane factory of District Saharanpur

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.021
    Chhaya Suman, Chhaya Mittal, Bhavna Jain, Manoj Kumar Singh, Sudheer Rathi, Rupesh Tewari
    124 - 129

  • An Epidemiological Investigation of Cholera Outbreak in a Residential School for differently abled children and adolescents in Central India

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.022
    Pragati Gautam, VP Goswami, Ila Bajpai, Salil Sakalle, Sanjay Dixit
    130 - 136

  • Perception for educational environment among medical students, Nainital: A Mixed method Cross-sectional study

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.023
    Neetu Vishwakarma, Hemaben Kanubhai Thakkar, Sadhana Awasthi
    137 - 145

  • Enhancing Healthcare Service Quality through Awareness and Participation

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.024
    Arpana Katiyar, Vivek Singh Sachan, Warshi Singh, Praveen Katiyar, Dinesh Singh Martolia, Shivam Agarwal
    146 - 151

  • Assessment of Problems & Challenges faced by Anti-retroviral Therapy Seekers at an ART Centre of tertiary care hospital during the COVID-19 -pandemic

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.025
    Rashmi Bhujade, Dr Anupma Srivastva , Dr Renu Agrawal , Dr Anil Baghel, Gagandeep Kaur , PK Jain
    152 - 157

Short Article

  • Patient Satisfaction Survey: Qualitative Evaluation Tool for Health Care Services

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.026
    Tripti Agrawal, Amitava Dutta
    158 - 161

  • Experiences regarding Respectful Maternity Care amongst women living in two Block PHC areas of Assam

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.027
    Chandana Thaosen, Tulika Goswami Mahanta, Manas Jyoti Kotoky, Hiranya Saikia, Gourangie Gogoi
    162 - 166

  • Designing and Validating a Multimorbidity Assessment Questionnaire for a Rural Indian Community

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.028
    Deepti Nagrath, Jayanti Semwal , Rajeev Mohan Kaushik
    167 - 170

Perspective

Book Review

  • Epidemiology and Management for Health Care

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.47203/IJCH.2025.v37i01.031
    Prasad Waingankar
    178 - 179
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