Tushar Singh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 198259 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tushar Singh |
| NOMBRES | Tushar |
| APELLIDO | Singh |
| FIRMA | SINGH T |
| AFILIACIONES | Banaras Hindu University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8762-9829 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 15 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Optimizing Georgia’s public health workforce
BACKGROUND: A well-functioning public health system relies on a robust workforce. Comprehensive data on the workforce, such as number, distribution, and key characteristics, are crucial for evidence-based workforce planning and development. However, few comprehensive public health workforce assessments exist, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Public health reforms over the years and needs identified during the COVID-19 pandemic prom…
Listening to the Reformative Insights of Lived Experiences
Non‐Nutritive Sucking (NNS)–Multifaceted Benefits and Limitations
Background Nonnutritive sucking (NNS) is a common behavior observed in neonates and infants, characterized by sucking motions not associated with nutritional intake. This reflexive activity plays a significant role in early neurobehavioral development and is often considered an indicator of central nervous system maturity. In both term and preterm infants, NNS has been associated with various developmental outcomes, including improved feeding eff…
The Voice of Veterans With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
This patient‐centered outcome research (PCOR) engagement project, Mind Over Matter (M.O.M.), was driven by veterans and key stakeholders, employing a successful design methodology from prior projects using think tank meetings (TTMs). Focusing on mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), the project aimed to enhance PCOR by engaging veterans and caregivers, building capacity, and fostering collaboration with researchers to advance PCOR and comparative e…
Social support and help-seeking worldwide
A Scoping Review of Income Support Programs Offered to Older Adults Living in South Asian Countries between 2000 and 2021
Income support programs (ISPs) are important social policy measures to reduce the risk of poverty among older adults. Over the years, developing countries including South Asian countries have introduced various ISPs to support the older population. This scoping review will provide information on ISPs for older adults in South Asia and will map the evidence available on the impact of these programs. This scoping review uses the Joanna Briggs Insti…
Women’s Social Health and Related Factors in Iran
Women’s health is the foundation of society’s health and it can be achieved only by addressing all aspects of their health. The aim of this systematic review and meta‐analysis is to investigate the prevalence of social health of Iranian women and related factors. The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses) was used for reporting; the terms “social health,” “women,” “Iran,” and related keywords were searched in …
The Social Psychology of Stigma in the Indian Context
Development of Social Stigma Scale in Indian Context
Public Attitudes for Quality and Funding of Long‐Term Care
There has been growing interest in exploring factors that influence the success or otherwise of welfare policies in democratic countries, such as the interrelationships between the proposed policy and the context it will be introduced into, such as the sociodemographic characteristics of the population and the population’s previous experience with welfare policies. However, there has been little exploration of factors that could influence general…
Predictors of Life Satisfaction
Iran is a developing country with low levels of economic development and globalization and is ruled by a theocratic government. To address the lack of national research on well‐being in Iran, this retrospective observational study aims to examine life satisfaction and its main determinants among Iranian adults. Using World Gallup Poll data collected between 2006 and 2017, we examined life satisfaction as a cognitive aspect of subjective well‐bein…
The Professionalism in Collaboration between Health and Social Care Workers
Background . Professionalism in collaboration means working based on competencies and ethics, showing accountability and respect in communication and care by each professional group. It is required to ensure seamless, integrated, and quality of care for patients. Previous research has focused on professionalism among single professional groups; little is known about how ethics of professionalism appear in collaboration between different professio…
Lived Experiences of Widows Living in Mzuzu City, Malawi
The aim of the study was to understand the experiences of widows in Mzuzu city, Malawi. The study utilizes a qualitative narrative inquiry to explore the experiences of widows. Participants were identified in Chibanja, Zolozolo, and Chasefu townships within the city of Mzuzu. Ten participants were purposively selected and consented to be interviewed. Data were analyzed using Reisman’s approach of thematic narrative analysis. The study has reveale…
Remodelling the curriculum of social work in India
In the four scores of social work in India, education in the professional discipline has grown substantially, from being a diploma course to a doctoral degree. The curriculum too has evolved. Though some issues and problems such as inadequate contributions, lacking contextualization, thematic restrictions, etc., sometimes restrain advancements resulting in a narrowly defined curriculum of social work literature in the country. The article discuss…
Living with alternatives
To understand the life world of Indian eunuchs who face a stigmatized societal status, the present study adopted an ethnographic approach. The study explored Indian Hijras' experiences vis-à-vis mainstream society. The issues that were explored included their perception of their societal status, their perceptions about the societal reaction towards them and ways they navigate through these challenges to create a meaningful life. A theoretical sam…
Improving global health security through implementation of the National Action Plan for Health Security in Sierra Leone, 2018–2021
IHR annual operational planning and implementation using evidence-based data and tools can facilitate strengthening of IHR capacity and should be encouraged
Health-Related Quality of Life Improvement in Residential Care Facilities’ Elders through a Physical Activity Program
Epidemiological data show that people are living longer. This change carries opportunities for people but also the increased need of residential care facilities (RCFs) for older adults who require care that cannot be taken at home. The entry in RCFs is a delicate moment, in which maintaining autonomy is essential, along with promoting physical and mental health. The aim of this work was to evaluate the perceived quality of life (QoL)-related vari…
Understanding the Impact of Community Family Physician Contracting (CFPC) on Community Medical Resources Consumption
Object. In order to achieve Healthy China 2030 and an effective and sequential diagnosis and treatment system, family doctor contracting is a crucial strategy for improving graded diagnosis and treatment and achieving universal health. Through the examination of data on community members’ medical expenditures, this research investigates the influence of contracting on residents’ primary care consultation behavior. Methods. Using a quantitative re…
Barriers and Enablers to Weight Management Programmes for Working Men
Gender-sensitised weight management programmes have been developed to encourage more men to access support. Whilst these programmes have proved successful for some groups of men, they are not a panacea, and the views of men who have never attended any form of structured weight management programme remain unknown. The aim of this research was to explore the views of such men towards body weight, health, and weight management programmes. Participan…
A Study to Explore the Feasibility of Using a Social Return on Investment Approach to Evaluate Short Breaks
Short breaks help maintain caring relationships, enabling people to remain living in their own homes and contributing significant economic benefit to public services. However, relatively little is known about the added social value generated by community-based short breaks. To address this evidence gap, we explored the feasibility of using a social return on investment (SROI) evaluation to explore a day support service in North Wales for people l…
The Benefits of Loving Kindness Meditation for Helping Professionals
Helping professionals are at risk of experiencing adverse health and psychological problems when working in roles where they are continually exposed to the emotional distress of others. The term compassion fatigue was coined to describe symptoms of emotional and physical fatigue experienced by workers in these environments. However, empirical research contends that compassion does not cause fatigue, rather compassion is said to foster well-being …
Client Violence towards Childcare Workers
Client violence against childcare workers is a relevant problem due to its impact on their well-being and the service they provide due to their significant role in the child protection process. This study explored violence against childcare workers using a systematic literature review. PubMed, Science Direct, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar were searched for studies that included the words workers, childcare workers, child protection workers, so…
Perceived Social Support and Associated Factors among Caregivers of Individuals with Heart Failure
Background. Caregivers are crucial in ensuring that their relatives with heart failure (HF) reach proper self-care levels. Despite this, the demanding nature of caring for others can lead to poor outcomes and the compromise of own needs, which raises the need for perceived social support. Prior research does not offer a thorough knowledge of how caregivers of people with HF regarded social support and the characteristics that went along with it. …
Social work education in India
The article discusses on background of social work and social work education as it began in India. It provides details on the curriculum of the discipline and discussions regarding its diversity and specialisations. It, further, highlights the process of indigenization, indigenous knowledge, Indianisation and the various debates related to it. The article also traces, in brief, the developmental history of the social work curricula in India, the …
Association of community engagement with vaccination confidence and uptake
Background: The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic disrupted childhood immunization in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. After the epidemic, the Government of Sierra Leone prioritized community engagement to increase vaccination confidence and uptake. To support these efforts, we examined potential drivers of vaccination confidence and uptake in Sierra Leone. Methods: We conducted a population-based household survey with primary caregivers of children in …
Stigma and Discrimination During Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has been instrumental in creating a dramatic shift from people's need to live in mutual association toward a desire to stigmatize distinctive others. Pandemic seems to be causing othering. Stated simply, stigmatization is a social process set to exclude those who are perceived to be a potential source of disease and may pose threat to the effective social living in the society. Based on the secondary evidence collected from …
Domestic violence during Covid ‐19 pandemic
Domestic violence is one of the most pernicious gendered ailments of human society. Researchers have confirmed the inevitable consequences of domestic violence (physical, sexual, and emotional) in increased vulnerability to psychopathologies in addition to physical morbidity. Domestic violence cases are vast in India, and the numbers are further aggravated at an alarming rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study aimed at exploring the …
Does stigma always have negative consequences
The aim of this study was to explore and understand the phenomenon of stigmatization and the socio‐cultural processes where a stigmatized group may enjoy the ongoing process of stigmatization against them. Generally, research works on “stigma” show that stigmas have negative effects on the stigmatized group. The stigmatized groups often claim that people are prejudiced against them, and therefore, they face discrimination, alienation, and compara…
Sales of Nicotine-Containing Electronic Cigarette Products
Objectives. To assess the proportion of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) products sold in the United States that contain nicotine according to retail scanner data. Methods. We obtained unit sales data from January 11, 2015, to December 12, 2015, from The Nielsen Company for convenience stores; supermarkets; mass merchandisers; drug, club, and dollar stores; and Department of Defense commissaries. The data did not include purchases from tobacco …
Predictors of Life Satisfaction
Iran is a developing country with low levels of economic development and globalization and is ruled by a theocratic government. To address the lack of national research on well‐being in Iran, this retrospective observational study aims to examine life satisfaction and its main determinants among Iranian adults. Using World Gallup Poll data collected between 2006 and 2017, we examined life satisfaction as a cognitive aspect of subjective well‐bein…
Exploring the trauma of acid attack victims
Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults — United States, 2005–2014
Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, resulting in approximately 480,000 premature deaths and more than $300 billion in direct health care expenditures and productivity losses each year (1). To assess progress toward achieving the Healthy People 2020 objective of reducing the percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes to ≤12.0%,* CDC assessed the most recent national estimates of smoking p…
Effect of Cue Characteristics on Event Based Prospective Memory
Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2011–2015
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States; if current smoking rates continue, 5.6 million Americans aged <18 years who are alive today are projected to die prematurely from smoking-related disease. Tobacco use and addiction mostly begin during youth and young adulthood. CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) analyzed data from the 2011-2015 National Youth Tobacco Surveys (NYTS) to determine the…
Sales of Nicotine-Containing Electronic Cigarette Products
Objectives. To assess the proportion of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) products sold in the United States that contain nicotine according to retail scanner data. Methods. We obtained unit sales data from January 11, 2015, to December 12, 2015, from The Nielsen Company for convenience stores; supermarkets; mass merchandisers; drug, club, and dollar stores; and Department of Defense commissaries. The data did not include purchases from tobacco …
Age of tobacco use initiation and association with current use and nicotine dependence among US middle and high school students, 2014–2016
First tobacco use at age ≤13 years is associated with current daily and past 30-day use of non-cigarette tobacco products, and with the development of nicotine dependence among youth ever-users. Proven tobacco prevention interventions that reach early adolescents are important to reduce overall youth tobacco use
Does stigma always have negative consequences
The aim of this study was to explore and understand the phenomenon of stigmatization and the socio‐cultural processes where a stigmatized group may enjoy the ongoing process of stigmatization against them. Generally, research works on “stigma” show that stigmas have negative effects on the stigmatized group. The stigmatized groups often claim that people are prejudiced against them, and therefore, they face discrimination, alienation, and compara…
Experience of well-being
The present study was conducted to see the impact of social support, social relations, and autonomy on happiness in intergenerational experiences. It also tried to examine the role of demographic variables (age, location and gender) on such experiences. The study involved a total of 185 participants from 48 families where each of the four members in the family namely, father, mother, son, and daughter-in-law, were administered scales related to p…
Gender-Based Violence During Covid-19 Pandemic
Psychological Antibodies” to Safeguard Frontline Healthcare Warriors Mental Health Against Covid-19 Pandemic-Related Psychopathology
OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 18 December 2020Sec. Mood Disorders Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.590160
The influence of social support in the rehabilitation of acid attack victims
Acid attack refers to the act of hurling acid or any other corrosive substance on a person with the intention of injuring, harming, maiming, disfiguring or killing. Despite the fact that the number of acid attack cases in India have been rising, a separate section for acid attacks was not included in the Indian Penal Code until the year 2013. Even after the inclusion of this crime in the Indian Penal Code, the discourse about the crime and the co…
The Effect of Covid-19 and Related Lockdown Phases on Young Peoples' Worries and Emotions
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented stress to young people. Despite recent speculative suggestions of poorer mental health in young people in India since the start of the pandemic, there have been no systematic efforts to measure these. Here we report on the content of worries of Indian adolescents and identify groups of young people who may be particularly vulnerable to negative emotions along with reporting on the impact of coronaviru…
Sars-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021
INTRODUCTION: As of 26 March 2021, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention had reported 4 159 055 cases of COVID-19 and 111 357 deaths among the 55 African Union member states; however, no country has published a nationally representative serosurvey as of October 2021. Such data are vital for understanding the pandemic's progression on the continent, evaluating containment measures, and policy planning. METHODS: We conducted a cross…
The mindfulness trajectories of addressing suicidal behaviour
Death and Mourning Process in Frontline Health Care Professionals and Their Families During Covid-19
The COVID-19 epidemic has mushroomed globally, disrupting the existence of millions. Under this current pandemic situation, the frontline health care professionals are looped in the clutch of the virus and are relatively more exposed to the patients infected with the disease. In this precarious situation, the frontline health care professionals have contributed their best to provide utmost care to the patients infected with the ailment. The direc…
Cyberchondria Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic
The corona-virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), first found in Wuhan, China in December 2019, has posed an inexplicable threat to the global community. After its inception, the virus proliferated rapidly, which led to the cause of millions of deaths, and having a detrimental effect on physical health, social lives, economic uncertainty, and mental health of people. The World Health Organization has reported that there are 111 million confirmed cases of…
Domestic violence during Covid ‐19 pandemic
Domestic violence is one of the most pernicious gendered ailments of human society. Researchers have confirmed the inevitable consequences of domestic violence (physical, sexual, and emotional) in increased vulnerability to psychopathologies in addition to physical morbidity. Domestic violence cases are vast in India, and the numbers are further aggravated at an alarming rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study aimed at exploring the …
Exploring the trauma of acid attack victims
Stigma and Discrimination During Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has been instrumental in creating a dramatic shift from people's need to live in mutual association toward a desire to stigmatize distinctive others. Pandemic seems to be causing othering. Stated simply, stigmatization is a social process set to exclude those who are perceived to be a potential source of disease and may pose threat to the effective social living in the society. Based on the secondary evidence collected from …
Social work education in India
The article discusses on background of social work and social work education as it began in India. It provides details on the curriculum of the discipline and discussions regarding its diversity and specialisations. It, further, highlights the process of indigenization, indigenous knowledge, Indianisation and the various debates related to it. The article also traces, in brief, the developmental history of the social work curricula in India, the …
Association of community engagement with vaccination confidence and uptake
Background: The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic disrupted childhood immunization in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. After the epidemic, the Government of Sierra Leone prioritized community engagement to increase vaccination confidence and uptake. To support these efforts, we examined potential drivers of vaccination confidence and uptake in Sierra Leone. Methods: We conducted a population-based household survey with primary caregivers of children in …
Stigma and health of Indian LGBT population
The silver lining behind the dark cloud
While most studies have been reporting the psychological issues being faced by the public due to the global spread of coronavirus and sudden restrictions and changes accompanying it, the present study attempted to explore dynamic human experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown, so as to understand the psycho-social factors that acted as adaptive resources or as buffers to maintain a stable mental state amidst this crisis. In…
Remodelling the curriculum of social work in India
In the four scores of social work in India, education in the professional discipline has grown substantially, from being a diploma course to a doctoral degree. The curriculum too has evolved. Though some issues and problems such as inadequate contributions, lacking contextualization, thematic restrictions, etc., sometimes restrain advancements resulting in a narrowly defined curriculum of social work literature in the country. The article discuss…
Living with alternatives
To understand the life world of Indian eunuchs who face a stigmatized societal status, the present study adopted an ethnographic approach. The study explored Indian Hijras' experiences vis-à-vis mainstream society. The issues that were explored included their perception of their societal status, their perceptions about the societal reaction towards them and ways they navigate through these challenges to create a meaningful life. A theoretical sam…
Improving global health security through implementation of the National Action Plan for Health Security in Sierra Leone, 2018–2021
IHR annual operational planning and implementation using evidence-based data and tools can facilitate strengthening of IHR capacity and should be encouraged
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