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…ia’s HIV-1 epidemic.Jha P, Arora P, Nagelkerke N.CMAJ. 2005; 173(1): 18. Does use of tobacco or alcohol contribute to impoverishment from hospitalization costs in India?Bonu S, Rani M, Peters DH, Jha P, Nguyen SN.Health Policy Plan. 2005; 20(1): 41-9. Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics.Setel P, Sankoh O, Rao C, Velkoff VA, Mathers C, Gonhuan Y, Jha P, Se…

Prabhat Jha – Journal Publications

…8217;s HIV-1 epidemic. Jha P, Arora P, Nagelkerke N. CMAJ. 2005; 173(1): 18. Does use of tobacco or alcohol contribute to impoverishment from hospitalization costs in India? Bonu S, Rani M, Peters DH, Jha P, Nguyen SN. Health Policy Plan. 2005; 20(1): 41-9. Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics. Setel P, Sankoh O, Rao C, Velkoff VA, Mathers C, Gonhuan Y, Jha P, S…

News in Hindi & Regional Languages

Selective abortion may account for up to 12 million missing girls in India May 24, 2011 Hindi Press Release Hindi Video News Release   Controversial malaria mortality results from the Million Death Study October 21, 2010 Hindi Press Release Oriya Press Release Assamese Press Release Hindi Video News Release   Nearly one million annual deaths from smoking in India by 2010 February 13, 2008 Hindi Press Release Assamese Press Release Beng…

Hellen Gelband: botanist turned policy guru in global health

“Based in Washington, DC, and New Delhi, CDDEP’s Associate Director for Policy, Hellen Gelband, together with Director Ramanan Laxminarayan, have led the organisation’s influential policy work for the past 9 years, notably the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP)” The Lancet Profile: Hellen Gelband…

Health Policy and Economics

…P, Stirling B, Slutsky AS. CMAJ. 2004; 170(1): 66-7. Evidence for global health. Jha P, Lavery JV. CMAJ. 2004; 170(11): 1687-8. Social and economic justice: the road to health. Jha P, Lavery J. CMAJ. 2004; 171(9). Global and regional estimates of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of price increases and other tobacco control policies. Ranson K, Jha P, Chaloupka FJ, Nguyen S. Nicotine Tob Res. 2002; 4(3): 311-9. Improving the health of the…

Prabhat Jha – Books & Chapters

…Macroeconomics and Health, S. Rao Editor, (2005). Jha P, Ross H, Chaloupka FJ and Corrao M. Effective Interventions to reduce smoking. In Boyle P, Gray N, Henningfield J, Seffrin J and Zatonski W, Editors. Tobacco: Science, Policy and Public Health. Oxford University Press, 2004. Jha P, Mills A. Improving health of the global poor. The Report of Working Group 5 of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Geneva and London, London School of…

Global Tobacco

…ia. Rastogi S, Jha P, Reddy KVS et al. Tobacco Control. 2005; 173(5): 476-7. Does use of tobacco or alcohol contribute to impoverishment from hospitalization costs in India? Bonu S, Rani M, Peters DH, Jha P, Nguyen SN. Health Policy Plan. 2005; 20(1): 41-9. Household tobacco and alcohol use, and child health: an exploratory study from India. Bonu S, Rani M, Jha P, Peters DH, Nguyen SN. Health Policy. 2004; 70(1): 67-83. Tobacco use in India: prev…

Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN)

In collaboration with the University of Washington, The Center for Disease Dynamics & Economic Policy, and the Public Health Foundation of India, the Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN) aims to improve the efficacy of health resource spending in various contexts around the globe. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the DCPN evaluates the potential costs and benefits of allocating funds to a range of health service delive…

Hot Temperature Has Highest Mortality Risk, But Moderately Cold Temperature Contributed To The Most Deaths In India

by Sze Hang Fu, Peter S. Rodriguez & Prabhat Jha “Extreme temperatures, including cold spells and heat waves, have detrimental effects on human health. Most climate change projections foresee extreme weather becoming more prevalent. Indeed, various parts of the world have already begun to experience the impact of extremely hot weather. Much less attention has been given to the health effects of cold temperature ranges. To tackle this k…

Wilson Suraweera – Publications

…ed Helminthiases V, APCO, Tokyo 1993:22-35. Comparative efficacy of single dose anthelmintics in relation to intensity of geohelminth infections.Ismail MM, Premaratne UN, Suraweera MGW.Ceylon Medical Journal. 1991; 36: 162-7. Change of School Participation in the Socio-Economic Context of Sri Lanka 1976-85, Suraweera MGW, Professor ADV de S Indraratna;  SLAAS (1988)…

Quality Health Care with Public Funds – The Hindu

Prabhat Jha’s article in The Hindu, Quality Health Care with Public Funds, offers 6 recommendations for India’s new 2014 government to take to improve the health of all Indians. Topics include providing universal health care to India’s poor, preventing vascular deaths, and controlling malaria. “Mr. Modi promised to bring about change. There are six practical steps that he could implement as Prime Minister to rapidly ensur…

Identifying HIV care continuum gaps using verbal autopsy

…e of verbal autopsies as an acceptable approach to assign the underlying cause of death. We have designed a verbal autopsy tool, the AIDS Treatment Module (ATM), to identify and remedy gaps in the HIV care continuum at local, regional, and national levels to improve the quality of care provided by HIV treatment programmes.” See the article at The Lancet HIV or for a direct download click here Verbal Autopsy Tool: AIDS Treatment Module (ATM)…

Maternal and Child Health

Trends in maternal mortality in India over two decades in nationally-representative surveys Meh C, Sharma A, Ram U, Fadel S, Correa N, Snelgrove JW, Shah P, Begum R, Shah M, Hana T, Fu SH, Raveendran L, Mishra B, Jha P. Trends in maternal mortality in India over two decades in nationally representative surveys. BJOG. 2021 Aug 29. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.16888.  Changes in cause-specific neonatal and 1-59-month child mortality in India from 2000 t…

Verbal autopsy: Critical eye on a valuable tool for mortality surveillance

by Hellen Gelband The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, 2021 In certain parts of the world, a great number of people are born, live their lives, and die without leaving a trace in the public record. While this does not mean that their lives were without meaning, it has practical significance, from legal inheritance to the right for widowed spouses to remarry. It also matters to public health, because an undocumented life and death cannot…

HIV

…e of verbal autopsies as an acceptable approach to assign the underlying cause of death. We have designed a verbal autopsy tool, the AIDS Treatment Module (ATM), to identify and remedy gaps in the HIV care continuum at local, regional, and national levels to improve the quality of care provided by HIV treatment programmes.” See the article at The Lancet HIV or for a direct download click here Verbal Autopsy Tool: AIDS Treatment Module (ATM)…

CGHR Toronto

…nd poverty for the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Prabhat has published widely on tobacco, HIV/AIDS, premature mortality, and the health of the global poor. Two of his ground-breaking publications on tobacco control policy led to the first-ever global treaty on tobacco control, now signed by over 160 countries. Among other projects at CGHR, Prabhat is currently leading one of the world’s largest prospective studies of premature mo…

Welcome to the CGHR Training Centre!

…teach you to assign cause of death codes to verbal autopsy forms by using a carefully constructed narrative, a step-by-step process, and your best clinical judgement. Verbal autopsy coding has a long-term impact that affects policy and saves lives.  * Note: We are currently updating the exam bank for this course. You will not be able to complete the course until the exam bank has been updated….

Tobacco Taxation and Inequalities

…omic, social, political, legislative, and technological forces; it affects everyone, but the most disadvantaged individuals are particularly hard hit. This IARC Scientific Publication was developed to serve as a reference for policy-makers and public health officials, linking to specific examples of interventions that may reduce future inequalities in cancer. You can access the full book on the IARC website or download this PDF. To read Prabhat J…

Tobacco and nicotine use

…en demonstrated. As the majority of people who smoke ultimately relapse, it is important to enhance the reach of available interventions and to continue to develop novel interventions. These efforts associated with innovative policy regulations (aimed at reducing nicotine content or eliminating tobacco products) have the potential to reduce the prevalence of tobacco and nicotine use and their enormous adverse impact on population health. Read the…

Death 101: Shaping the Future of Global Health

…rector Prof. Prabhat Jha teaches students the value of studying the dead to help the living. Large improvements in health can be made in the neediest populations by effectively addressing the major causes of death with health policy and action. Death 101 enables students to investigate health problems affecting large populations – the whole world in fact! By understanding the big numbers in global mortality and their causes and distributions, thi…

Trends in female-selective abortion among Asian diasporas in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia

Preference for sons and smaller families and, in the case of China, a one-child policy, have contributed to missing girl births in India and China over the last few decades due to sex-selective abortions. Selective abortion occurs also among Indian and Chinese diaspora, but their variability and trends over time are unknown. We examined conditional sex ratio (CSR) of girl births per 1000 boy births among second or third births following earlier…

CGHR Partners

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Canadian Institutes of Health Research The Center for Disease Dynamics and Economic Policy (CDDEP) National Institutes of Health – Fogarty International St. Michael’s Hospital University of Toronto University of Washington – Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN) The World Bank World Health Organization – South-East Asia Region  …

About CGHR

…pulations. Current projects at CGHR are designed to generate and disseminate evidence of the major causes of premature mortality among the global poor. Research areas include maternal and child health, tobacco control, health policy and economics, and gender inequalities. CGHR has offices in Toronto, Bangalore, and New Delhi. Funding is provided by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the US National Institutes of Health, the B…

Principles of Tobacco Control

…er aspects of industry behavior. This digital publication also examines the harm caused by tobacco use and offers solutions for successful tobacco control.” Dr. Michael Eriksen, an international expert on tobacco research and policy and Dean of the School of Public Health at Georgia State University, is the lead author of this resource, which contains interactive features, including video, graphics and links to additional articles and reports.  Y…

CGHR paper wins 2011 Albie Award!

The recent CGHR paper on selective abortions in India, published in The Lancet last May, has received a 2011 Albie Award from Foreign Policy magazine. The Albie is named after renowned political economist, Albert Hirschman, and the award was created to recognize “the best writing in global political economy”. While the writing platforms can vary (e.g., journal article, blog post, traditional book), the Albies honour exceptional writi…

Slate Magazine: Lessons from the Dead

Lessons from the Dead – Slate Magazine Slate Magazine covers CGHR’s Indian Million Death Study, its use of Verbal Autopsy to get death data, the impacts of the study on health policy in India, and the necessity of continuing to monitor mortality data to improve health for all Indians….