Papers by Dr Surendra Babu
International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies, 2019
Back ground: The ABO and Rhesus –D blood group are the major blood group systems. The frequency o... more Back ground: The ABO and Rhesus –D blood group are the major blood group systems. The frequency of four main blood group systems varies in population throughout the world and even in different parts of the country. ABO & Rh blood group antigens play a Vital role in immunologic safety of whole blood and blood component transfusion and also useful in population genetic studies, in resolving medico legal issues. Aim: This study is aimed to document the frequency and distribution pattern of ABO and Rh among blood donors in S.V.R.R.Govt. General Hospital, Tirupati. Study Design: It is a retrospective record based study carried out at Model blood bank S.V.R.R.Govt. General Hospital Tirupati from January 2014 to December 2015. Material and Methods: The study was conducted on 13,040 donors. ABO and Rh typing was done by using slide agglutination method with antisera ABO and Rh (tulip Diag). Doubtful cases were confirmed by tube agglutination method and reverse grouping by using pooled A& B ...
International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 2017
Background: Dengue fever (DF) is a viral infection carried by Aedesaegypti. Dengue is one of the ... more Background: Dengue fever (DF) is a viral infection carried by Aedesaegypti. Dengue is one of the major public health concerns and an emergent disease and contributes annual outbreaks in India. The aims and objectives of the study were to know the levels of knowledge regarding causation and modes of transmission Dengue fever in urban slums of Chittoor and to know the levels of awareness and practices regarding the prevention and control measures against dengue fever.Methods: A community based cross sectional study was done in urban slums of Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. The data from the family members residing in 100 households of urban slums were randomly selected from the list and interviewed individually. Apart from education and occupation of the participants, information on knowledge about Dengue fever, preventive practices are taken. The results were shown in proportions, percentage and association of the knowledge attitude and practices with the different factors.Resul...
International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 2018
Background: Nutrition rehabilitation centers (NRCs) were started to control severe malnutrition a... more Background: Nutrition rehabilitation centers (NRCs) were started to control severe malnutrition and follow-up of children with severe acute malnutrition is essential because mortality rate of 10-30% has been reported after discharge from hospital.Methods: A community based cross sectional study with the objectives to assess the current health status of the children discharged from the NRC and to assess the healthy practices learned by mothers during their stay at NRC. We included children those discharged from May to October 2013. The children were approached house to house visit and assessed for their health status with a pretested semi structured questionnaire. Mothers of the children were also interviewed for the knowledge and practices of the dietary and child care.Results: Among 67 children, 8 (11.9%) children could not be traced and 7 (10.4%) were reported dead, 52 were included 27 were boys and 25 were girls with a mean age of 35 months. The current nutritional status was 71....
Feature based modeling is an indispensable tool for integrating design and manufacturing processe... more Feature based modeling is an indispensable tool for integrating design and manufacturing processes in CAPP system. Present work proposes a new approach to generate process plan from feature-based modeling, based on an integrated geometric modeling system that supports both feature-based modeling and information storage. This feature based modeling approach eliminates extraction of features from the programs of the already drawn components. As a result, feature information is directly available to downstream activities. The system comprises of three modules for different tasks such as feature-based modeling module, feature information storage module and process plan generation module. The proposed feature based modeling system provides a graphical environment for solid modeling in AutoCAD. The system is user friendly, flexible, expandable and reduces over all lead time. Present system is developed only for turning components and limited to selective machining features. To generalize ...
International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 2012
BackgroundIntraregional cultural and linguistic differences are common in the Low- and Middle-inc... more BackgroundIntraregional cultural and linguistic differences are common in the Low- and Middle-income countries. They must focus on innovative teaching for the undergraduate (UG) medical students to make them sensitive to the social and contextual determinants of health to achieve the health for all goal. The early introduction of community-based medical education could be a game changing strategy.ObjectivesTo describe the methods, evaluation, implication, and challenges of a Community Orientation Programme (COP) adopted for the Indian Medical Graduates (IMG). Methods: The COP was arranged for the first-year UG students, including the community and the local administration. The program was divided into phases like-initial preparation, theoretical sessions, field visits, group activities, data analysis, and dissemination of the findings. In this learner-centric, supervised educational program, the key aim was to focus on developing students’ communication skills, observation power and...
Background: Attitude about mental illness determines health seeking of the people. Success of Nat... more Background: Attitude about mental illness determines health seeking of the people. Success of National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) is dependent on attitude about mental illness of various stakeholders in the programme. Material & Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was carried out in Ballabgarh block of Faridabad district in Haryana. We aimed to study attitude about mental illness of various stakeholders of health care providers (HCP), community leaders in rural area of Haryana, north India. Study area consisting of five Primary Health Centers (PHCs) serving 2,12,000 rural population. All HCP working at PHCs, Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and community leaders in study area were approached for participation. Hindi version of Opinion about Mental illness Scale for Chinese Community (OMICC) was used to study attitude. Results: In total, 467 participants were participated in the study. Of which, HCP, ASHAs and community leaders were 81 (17.4%), 145 (31.0%) an...
International Journal of …, 2012
Background and Aim: Few studies in India have tried to examine the role of female literacy on con... more Background and Aim: Few studies in India have tried to examine the role of female literacy on contraception usage. This study aimed to determine family planning related knowledge and practices and their association with female literacy. Materials and methods: Facility based cross-sectional study was done among married women aged 15–45 years attending outpatient department of three primary health centres in rural Tamilnadu. Data were collected using pretested semistructured questionnaire by a convenience sampling technique. To assess family planning related knowledge, a composite score was calculated and final score was categorised into satisfactory and unsatisfactory. Results: A total of 100 women participated. Fifty nine percent had satisfactory Family Planning related Knowledge and practices (FPK). Contraception prevalence rate for modern methods was 60%. Eighty percent had ever undergone abortions and among them, one fifth had undergone uncertified abortions.With increase in the ...
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Papers by Dr Surendra Babu