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V Kumar

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Survey of village informants--an alternate method to estimate paralytic poliomyelitis prevalence in rural area.

Lameness surveys were conducted among children of 0-14 year age group in 60 villages of a Community Development Block of district Ambala in Haryana State. The methods used were: village informants survey and house-to-house survey. Village informants were village chief, school teachers, primary health care workers, traditional birth attendants and several prominent persons from each street/neighbourhood of the village. These informants located lame children in their locality. Subsequently, a house-to-house search for identification of lame children was made in all the 60 sampled villages. Physicians later on, examined the lame children to diagnose paralytic poliomyelitis. Estimate of the prevalence rate of lower extremity paralytic poliomyelitis in 0-14 year age group was found to be 7.9/1000 in village informants survey. This did not differ significantly from the rate of 8.8/1000 revealed by house-to-house survey in the same community (p greater than 0.05). Time required to complete village informants survey was almost one third and costs were also about half as compared to house-to-house survey. Therefore, village informants based lameness survey is a rapid and economical alternative for the estimation of poliomyelitis prevalence in rural communities.

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Indian experience of home based mothers card: ICMR task force study.

To improve the quality of MCH services, a Home Based Mothers Card (HBMC) prepared and recommended by World Health Organization was adapted to Indian situation, and introduced in 1.5 lakh population of rural area covered by 6 participating centres under the aegis of Indian Council of Medical Research. Two thousand four hundred and forty six mothers were given this card and were followed up for a period of 2 years. Only 89.2 percent retrieval of the cards was possible after a period of 18 months. Screening of the population for "at risk" women monitoring and referral could be undertaken with the help of this card. Improved antenatal, and referral services were observed during the study period. The card (HBMC) was acceptable to the mothers as well as to the health workers, as a tool for improving the quality and coverage of MCH services being rendered at the Primary Health Centre.

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