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A scoping review of interventions to improve oral health in prison settings.
(2023-06)OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of oral health interventions implemented in prison settings and explore the barriers and facilitators towards implementation. METHODS: Following Joanna Briggs Institute scoping ... -
SDG 10: Placing inequalities in oral health at the core of the global agenda.
(Springer Nature, 2023-11-24) -
Self-reported Practices and Attitudes of Community Health Workers (Accredited Social Health Activist) in Tobacco Control - Findings from two states in India.
(2015)BACKGROUND: The 1978 declaration (Alma-Ata declaration) made at the International Conference on Primary Health Care, meeting in Alma-Ata highlighted the critical role played by Community Health Workers (CHWs) to link ... -
Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding in Meta-Analyses
(arXiv, 2017-07-28) -
Sequential screening for lung cancer in a high-risk group: randomised controlled trial: LungSEARCH: a randomised controlled trial of Surveillance using sputum and imaging for the EARly detection of lung Cancer in a High-risk group.
(Wiley Online, 2019-10-17)BACKGROUND: Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening detects early-stage lung cancer and reduces mortality. We proposed a sequential approach targeted to a high-risk group as a potentially efficient screening strategy. ... -
Social participation and tooth loss, vision, and hearing impairments among older Brazilian adults.
(2023-10)BACKGROUND: Vision and hearing impairments can reduce participation in social activities. Given the prominent role of the mouth in face-to-face interactions, this study evaluated the associations of tooth loss, vision, and ... -
Socio-demographic and socioeconomic differences in tobacco use prevalence among Indian youth
(Elsevier, 2019-02-20)The study aims to assess the association between socio-demographic factors such as age, gender, area of residence, father's education, and standard of living and the likelihood of tobacco use in adolescence. We conducted ... -
Socioeconomic Gradients in Different Types of Tobacco Use in India: Evidence from Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2009-10
(Hindawi, 2015-07-26)Socioeconomic differences in tobacco use have been reported, but there is a lack of evidence on how they vary according to types of tobacco use. This study explored socioeconomic differences associated with cigarette, bidi, ... -
Socioeconomic gradients in general and oral health of primary school children in Shiraz, Iran.
(2016)BACKGROUND: Health status is largely determined by socio-economic status. The general health of individuals at higher social hierarchy is better than people in lower levels. Likewise, people with higher socio-economic ... -
Socioeconomic inequalities and determinants of oral hygiene status among Urban Indian adolescents.
(2016-06)OBJECTIVES: To assess the socioeconomic inequalities in oral hygiene and to explore the role of various socioeconomic and psychosocial factors as determinants of these inequalities among adolescents residing in Delhi ... -
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Clustering of Health-Compromising Behaviours among Indian Adolescents
(Medknow Publications, 2020-06-02)BACKGROUND: The simultaneous occurrence of health-compromising behaviors can accentuate the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This study aimed to examine the existence and patterns of clustering of four NCD risk ... -
Socioeconomic inequalities in dental caries and their determinants in adolescents in New Delhi, India
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014-12-12)OBJECTIVES: To determine whether socioeconomic inequalities are correlated to dental caries experience and decayed teeth of Indian adolescents, and assess whether behavioural and psychosocial factors mediate this association. ... -
Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of chewing tobacco use in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
(Elsevier, 2021-05-27)BACKGROUND: Chewing tobacco and other types of smokeless tobacco use have had less attention from the global health community than smoked tobacco use. However, the practice is popular in many parts of the world and has ... -
Strategies for cancer prevention in India-Catching the 'low hanging fruits'
(Elsevier, 2014-07-10)Cancer is a growing problem in India, with over 1 million new cases estimated in 2012 alone. In November 2013, organizers of the Indian Cancer Congress (a joint meeting of four of the largest oncology associations in India) ... -
Strengthening oral health for universal health coverage.
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A Structured Approach to Online Learning Design in Dental Education
(Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), 2020-10-30) -
Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000-17
(Elsevier, 2020-05-12)BACKGROUND: India has made substantial progress in improving child survival over the past few decades, but a comprehensive understanding of child mortality trends at disaggregated geographical levels is not available. We ... -
Supplemental Material for Assessing the Strengths of Mental Health Consumers: A Systematic Review
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2012)