Advocacy Document
Social Determinants of Health in Kerala State
Bappukunju Ekbal, D Narayana, KR Thankappan, Kidangazhiyathmana Ajithkumar, Kottilil Mohandas, KP Aravindan, Pai Praveen, Rajeev Sadanandan, S.Harikumar, Srinivasan K, T K Sundari Ravindran, Udaya Sankar Mishra, K Vijayakumar , V Raman Kutty
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age,and the health system are the social determinants of health. Distribution of money, power, power relations in politics and theavailability of resources decide these conditions resulting ininequities in health
Editorial
Chronic Kidney Disease in India
Sreejith Parameswaran
India has a population of 1.2 billion and in the recent years has registered impressive economic growth. The mean per capita gross national product has grown; however approximately 70% of the population still lives on less than Rupees 60 per day. It is evident that an epidemiologic transition is taking place in India with a decline in the burden of infectious diseases along with a significant rise in non-communicable diseases.Reddy et al1 in a review pointed out that in the year 2005 at least 53% ...
Special Section: Renal Diseases
- Snake bite induced acute kidney injury
Vivek Kumar
Snake bite is an important health concern in India as the country faces the highest burden of this occupational hazard worldwide. The spectrum of presentation may vary from mild local symptoms to rapid envenomation leading to sudden death ...
- Pregnancy in kidney disease
Anjali Mohapatra and Gopal Basu
This article reviews the association of chronic renal disease and pregnancy. Included are discussions of physiological changes in a normal pregnancy and abnormalities encountered during pregnancy in a patient with chronic kidney disease (CKD),
- Screening for kidney disease in diabetes mellitus
S. Gomathy
Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus is increasing rapidly in the developed countries and in developing countries undergoing transition from traditional to modern lifestyle.
- Deceased donor kidney transplantation in India
Ilangovan Veerappan
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The incidence of end stage kidney disease (ESRD) in India is 151-232 per million per year. The renal transplantation rates are a paltry 3.25 per million per year.
Pictorial Commentary
Emphysematous Pyelonephritis
C Anand and RP Swaminathan
A 40yr old male patient, a known patient with type 2 diabetes and poorly
Commentary
Carbon cost of health care: New thoughts and a call for action
P Ramesh Menon
The almost fairy tale-like story of 15-year old Jeanna Giese, who became a medical first in
Technology
Health Informatics and Healthcare Education
Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari
Healthcare education is known as perhaps the form of education most difficult to both impart and imbibe. Traditionally, it has been taught and learnt in an inductive way. Nonetheless, the application of information and communications technologies (ICT), in the form of e-learning,
Opinion
Implementation of Medical Informatics in Medical Colleges
T V Rao
'Medical informatics' is the main constituent of biomedical informatics, the field that deals with the cognitive, information - processing and communication tasks of medical practice, education, and research, as well as the information science and technology employed to support these tasks. It is intrinsically ...
Research Article
A Descriptive Analysis of Cancer Cases from Endosulfan-Affected Areas of Kasaragod District, Kerala
Binukumar Bhaskarapillai, Saina Sunil Kumar and Satheesan Balasubramanian
Endosulfan is a highly toxic agrichemical used in the cashew plantations of Kasaragod district. The Stockholm Convention held in April 2011 recommended a global ban on the manufacture and use of endosulfan because of its adverse effects on human health and the environment. This was a retrospective study of cancer cases reported from endosulfan-affected areas of Karsargod distract, as recorded at the Malabar Cancer Centre (MCC) during the year 2011. Twenty such cancer cases were reported at the MCC during the ....
Leptospirosis: An Experience With an Epidemic
R Suresh Babu and Ramdas Pisharody
Leptospirosis is the most wide spread zoonotic disease in the world. The pathogenic species belong to Leptospira interrogans. 1 The organism enters the human body through the abrasion in the skin, mucosal surface of eye, mouth, nasopharynx etc. The clinical spectrum of the disease in human beings ranges from a self limiting febrile illness to a severe potentially fatal Weil's syndrome with multiple organ dysfunctions...
Meet Professor Ramdas Pisharody
Professor Pisharody is currently Principal of Government Medical College, Thiruvnanthapuram. He is an alumnus of this college as well. After graduation, he joined Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,
Book Review
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
N. Sundaresan
As doctors, have we ever thought what is in our mind when we deal with patients, whether in the comfort of our consultation room or in the chaotic setting of an emergency room?