Prasanna Kumar Patra
Biographic Data
| ID | 108070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prasanna Kumar Patra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prasanna Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Patra |
| SIGNATURE | PATRA P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utkal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4886-3302 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A qualitative study on tobacco- use associated behavior and major influencing factors among youths from indigenous communities of Odisha, India
Tobacco use is a significant public health concern globally. In India, tobacco-related behaviors are increasing in a worrying pattern and such burden is highly prevalent among tribal and indigenous populations. This present study, conducted in Odisha, the state with the highest number of tribal communities in India, examines the factors that explain tobacco use behavior, its initiation, and continuation among two of the largest tribes in Odisha: …
Socioeconomic and Demographic Determinants of Undernutrition Among Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) Mother and Their Under-Five Children in Odisha, India
Maternal and child undernutrition among the tribal population are the major health concerns. The study assessed maternal and child undernutrition and their interrelationship with sociodemographic factors. This study involves a total of 215 pairs of mothers and their under-five children. The prevalence of maternal undernutrition was 49.3%, and child malnutrition in the form of wasting, stunting, and underweight was reported at 28.4%, 33%, and 31.2…
A scoping review on knowledge, beliefs, and practices towards HIV/Aids among Indian adolescents
Traditional alcoholic beverages of the Bonda tribe in Odisha, India
Traditional alcoholic-beverages have been used by the tribes since ages. Bonda is one of the 62 Schedule Tribes and 13 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups of Odisha, who reside in the southern part of the state. Historically, a number of traditional alcohols have been produced by the Bonda which is consumed widely and used in the socio-economic and cultural events. Current times evidence the production and use of traditional alcohols gradually …
Assessment of Nutritional Status Among Children and Adolescents of Juang Tribe in Keonjhar District of Odisha, India
Assessment of the nutritional status is a major public health concern in India. Thinness (low BMI-for-age) is an important anthropometric measure of undernutrition. In the present scenario, tribal children were facing undernutrition due to lack of income, inadequate food intake, and suffering with various diseases. The objectives of the present study were to determine age groups and sex specific prevalence of thinness among children and adolescen…
Bionetworking and Strategic Linking between India and Japan
Based on a case study of a clinical stem cell intervention (CSCI) center in Chennai, India, this article explores distinct entrepreneurial strategies for the promotion of unrecognized clinical stem cell applications in India. It shows that the center—an Indo-Japanese joint-venture—is able to promote the CSCI due to its central position in a network relationship, its possession of specialized skills and knowledge, and its ability to maneuver other…
Following the banking cycle of umbilical cord blood in India
To address critique of the rare uptake of umbilical cord blood (UCB) in private banks, hybrid-banking models would combine the advantages of “public UCB banking” and private UCB banking by responding to both market forces and public needs. We question both by following the cycle of UCB banking in India: the circulation and stagnation of UCB as waste, gift, biological insurance, enclaved good, source of saving lives and commodity through various p…
Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications
A very large grey area exists between translational stem cell research and applications that comply with the ideals of randomised control trials and good laboratory and clinical practice and what is often referred to as snake-oil trade. We identify a discrepancy between international research and ethics regulation and the ways in which regulatory instruments in the stem cell field are developed in practice. We examine this discrepancy using the n…
Discursive dialects of bioethics
Opportunity for Natural Selection among the Migrant Santal Community of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India
In this article, the selection intensity indices are calculated based on demographic information pertaining to fertility and mortality among the migrant Santals of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The indices are calculated by original formula of Crow and modified formula of Johnston and Kensinger. From the analysis it is evident that the total selection intensity among the migrant Santals operates more through differ ential mortality than through differenti…
Recruiter-patients as ambiguous symbols of health
Healthcare service providing centers in India offer contentious stem cell-based therapies to patients for an array of medical conditions. Among strategies these centers adopt to recruit new patients from local, regional and global spheres, the most prominent is the use of "recruiter-patients." Recruiter-patients are a group of patients who either have already received or are in the process of receiving the therapy and, importantly, are used by se…
Experimental stem cell therapy
This article concerns new developments in autologous adult stem cell research in Japan and India through the notions of biohierarchy and bionetworking. It conceptualizes how human subject research in one country may be turned into experimental stem cell therapies in another through bionetworks. We analyse the processes that enable researchers in Japan to discard a therapy as being of reputational risk, while researchers in India employ it so that…
Bionetworking
Over the last three to four years, an increasing number of private and public sector tertiary level hospitals and research centres in India have been using stem cell therapy, especially adult stem cell therapy, in the guise of experimental therapy for a variety of medical conditions. The promotion and growth of this experimental field across local and national borders traverses regulatory, ethical, social and financial boundaries. In this complex…
Raji-A Food Gatherer and Hunter Primitive Tribe of Uttaranchal
The index of total opportunity for selection based on differential fertility and mortality have been calculated for the Raji – a primitive tribe of Central Himalayas of Uttaranchal State in Northern India. The value of total selection intensity (It) is found to be 0.9167 (according to Crow 1958) and 1.2810 (according to Johnston and Kensinger 1971) and which operates more through mortality component than fertility component by both the methods. I…
Opportunity for Natural Selection Among The Dalu of West Garo Hills, Meghalaya
The index of total of opportunity for selection based on differential fertility and mortality has been worked out for the Dalu of West Garo Hills. Meghalaya. From the analysis, it emerges out that the total selection intensity in this population is moderate and operates more through differential mortality than through differential fertility. The total selection intensity as per the formula given by Johnston and Kensinger (1971) is found to be sli…
Experimental stem cell therapy
This article concerns new developments in autologous adult stem cell research in Japan and India through the notions of biohierarchy and bionetworking. It conceptualizes how human subject research in one country may be turned into experimental stem cell therapies in another through bionetworks. We analyse the processes that enable researchers in Japan to discard a therapy as being of reputational risk, while researchers in India employ it so that…
Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications
A very large grey area exists between translational stem cell research and applications that comply with the ideals of randomised control trials and good laboratory and clinical practice and what is often referred to as snake-oil trade. We identify a discrepancy between international research and ethics regulation and the ways in which regulatory instruments in the stem cell field are developed in practice. We examine this discrepancy using the n…
Bionetworking
Over the last three to four years, an increasing number of private and public sector tertiary level hospitals and research centres in India have been using stem cell therapy, especially adult stem cell therapy, in the guise of experimental therapy for a variety of medical conditions. The promotion and growth of this experimental field across local and national borders traverses regulatory, ethical, social and financial boundaries. In this complex…
Opportunity for Natural Selection Among The Dalu of West Garo Hills, Meghalaya
The index of total of opportunity for selection based on differential fertility and mortality has been worked out for the Dalu of West Garo Hills. Meghalaya. From the analysis, it emerges out that the total selection intensity in this population is moderate and operates more through differential mortality than through differential fertility. The total selection intensity as per the formula given by Johnston and Kensinger (1971) is found to be sli…
Raji-A Food Gatherer and Hunter Primitive Tribe of Uttaranchal
The index of total opportunity for selection based on differential fertility and mortality have been calculated for the Raji – a primitive tribe of Central Himalayas of Uttaranchal State in Northern India. The value of total selection intensity (It) is found to be 0.9167 (according to Crow 1958) and 1.2810 (according to Johnston and Kensinger 1971) and which operates more through mortality component than fertility component by both the methods. I…
Bionetworking
Over the last three to four years, an increasing number of private and public sector tertiary level hospitals and research centres in India have been using stem cell therapy, especially adult stem cell therapy, in the guise of experimental therapy for a variety of medical conditions. The promotion and growth of this experimental field across local and national borders traverses regulatory, ethical, social and financial boundaries. In this complex…
Recruiter-patients as ambiguous symbols of health
Healthcare service providing centers in India offer contentious stem cell-based therapies to patients for an array of medical conditions. Among strategies these centers adopt to recruit new patients from local, regional and global spheres, the most prominent is the use of "recruiter-patients." Recruiter-patients are a group of patients who either have already received or are in the process of receiving the therapy and, importantly, are used by se…
Experimental stem cell therapy
This article concerns new developments in autologous adult stem cell research in Japan and India through the notions of biohierarchy and bionetworking. It conceptualizes how human subject research in one country may be turned into experimental stem cell therapies in another through bionetworks. We analyse the processes that enable researchers in Japan to discard a therapy as being of reputational risk, while researchers in India employ it so that…
Discursive dialects of bioethics
Opportunity for Natural Selection among the Migrant Santal Community of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India
In this article, the selection intensity indices are calculated based on demographic information pertaining to fertility and mortality among the migrant Santals of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The indices are calculated by original formula of Crow and modified formula of Johnston and Kensinger. From the analysis it is evident that the total selection intensity among the migrant Santals operates more through differ ential mortality than through differenti…
Following the banking cycle of umbilical cord blood in India
To address critique of the rare uptake of umbilical cord blood (UCB) in private banks, hybrid-banking models would combine the advantages of “public UCB banking” and private UCB banking by responding to both market forces and public needs. We question both by following the cycle of UCB banking in India: the circulation and stagnation of UCB as waste, gift, biological insurance, enclaved good, source of saving lives and commodity through various p…
Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications
A very large grey area exists between translational stem cell research and applications that comply with the ideals of randomised control trials and good laboratory and clinical practice and what is often referred to as snake-oil trade. We identify a discrepancy between international research and ethics regulation and the ways in which regulatory instruments in the stem cell field are developed in practice. We examine this discrepancy using the n…
Bionetworking and Strategic Linking between India and Japan
Based on a case study of a clinical stem cell intervention (CSCI) center in Chennai, India, this article explores distinct entrepreneurial strategies for the promotion of unrecognized clinical stem cell applications in India. It shows that the center—an Indo-Japanese joint-venture—is able to promote the CSCI due to its central position in a network relationship, its possession of specialized skills and knowledge, and its ability to maneuver other…
Assessment of Nutritional Status Among Children and Adolescents of Juang Tribe in Keonjhar District of Odisha, India
Assessment of the nutritional status is a major public health concern in India. Thinness (low BMI-for-age) is an important anthropometric measure of undernutrition. In the present scenario, tribal children were facing undernutrition due to lack of income, inadequate food intake, and suffering with various diseases. The objectives of the present study were to determine age groups and sex specific prevalence of thinness among children and adolescen…
A scoping review on knowledge, beliefs, and practices towards HIV/Aids among Indian adolescents
Traditional alcoholic beverages of the Bonda tribe in Odisha, India
Traditional alcoholic-beverages have been used by the tribes since ages. Bonda is one of the 62 Schedule Tribes and 13 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups of Odisha, who reside in the southern part of the state. Historically, a number of traditional alcohols have been produced by the Bonda which is consumed widely and used in the socio-economic and cultural events. Current times evidence the production and use of traditional alcohols gradually …
Socioeconomic and Demographic Determinants of Undernutrition Among Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) Mother and Their Under-Five Children in Odisha, India
Maternal and child undernutrition among the tribal population are the major health concerns. The study assessed maternal and child undernutrition and their interrelationship with sociodemographic factors. This study involves a total of 215 pairs of mothers and their under-five children. The prevalence of maternal undernutrition was 49.3%, and child malnutrition in the form of wasting, stunting, and underweight was reported at 28.4%, 33%, and 31.2…
A qualitative study on tobacco- use associated behavior and major influencing factors among youths from indigenous communities of Odisha, India
Tobacco use is a significant public health concern globally. In India, tobacco-related behaviors are increasing in a worrying pattern and such burden is highly prevalent among tribal and indigenous populations. This present study, conducted in Odisha, the state with the highest number of tribal communities in India, examines the factors that explain tobacco use behavior, its initiation, and continuation among two of the largest tribes in Odisha: …
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