Arvind Pandey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3811348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arvind Pandey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arvind |
| FAMILY NAME | Pandey |
| SIGNATURE | PANDEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Medical Statistics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7698-8831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Developing and validating a tool for assessing the confidence in the competence of midwifery tutors in India on WHO core competency domains
Negligible quantitative research evidence exists on standardisation and psychometric validation of questionnaires that measure midwifery educators’ confidence in their competence. This study developed a self-assessment of confidence in competence questionnaire in India based on the WHO Midwifery Educator Core Competencies (2014) with an aim to develop and validate a self-assessment tool measuring midwifery tutors’ confidence in competence in impa…
Developing and validating a self-assessment tool for assessing confidence of nurse-midwives against competency domains of the International Confederation of Midwives, in India
While midwives are recognized as primary care-providers for maternal and new-born care in many parts of the world, India is transitioning to professional midwifery. The pathway to midwifery in India has been through integrated nursing and midwifery education. Since 2018, India has introduced an 18-month post nursing midwifery education programme. To establish a baseline for midwives’ competence and measure progress, there is a need for a quick, e…
Projected impact of fast-tracking of anti-retroviral treatment coverage on vertical transmission of HIV in India
One of the five high-level goals under Phase V of the National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NACP) of the Government of India is the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV. In this paper, we estimate the potential impact of maintaining and enhancing the anti-retroviral treatment under the NACP in terms of averting new infections and vertical transmission rates vis-à-vis no intervention scenario. We used India’s HIV Estimates 2022 models to…
Augmenting progress on the elimination of vertical transmissions of HIV in India
The government of India has adopted the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV as one of the five high-level goals under phase V of the National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NACP). In this paper, we present the data from HIV estimations 2021 for India and select States detailing the progress as well as the attributable causes for vertical transmissions. The NACP spearheads work on mathematical modelling to estimate HIV burden based on the…
Social networks as providers of social protection to urban migrants in Delhi
Why are social networks necessary at the place of destination? What roles do they play as a form of “social capital” for newly arrived migrants in urban centers? These are some relevant questions that scholars in migration studies have explored, especially in the context of international migration, but significant gaps exist in the case of internal migration. Using the migration history of the head of 400 households living in eight slum areas of …
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Effect of home-based newborn care on neonatal and infant mortality
BACKGROUND: Home-based newborn care has been found to reduce neonatal mortality in rural areas. Study evaluated effectiveness of home-based care delivered by specially recruited newborn care workers- Shishu Rakshak (SR) and existing workers- anganwadi workers (AWW) in reducing neonatal and infant mortality rates. METHODS: This three-arm, community-based, cluster randomised trial was conducted in five districts in India. Intervention package consi…
Spatial Structures and Trends of Cities in Europe and Asia
Human civilization reached a milestone in the first decade of the 21st century, when the global urban population became higher than rural for the first time. However, the process of urbanisation is not uniform across the globe, and striking differences exist in the spatial structure and trends of urbanisation in developed and developing regions because of varying rates of demographic and economic growth. The success of Sustainable Development Goa…
Exploring Rural–Urban Inequality in India in the Post-economic Reform Period
Structural reforms were adopted by India in the early 1990s. Despite a slowdown in the major economies of the world due to global financial crisis in 2008–2009, Indian economy has consistently performed better and achieved a growth rate of 8–9 per cent in the past decade. The proponents of the economic reforms thus believe that the measures of structural adjustment would bring about economic growth and narrow down the rural–urban gap in India. In…
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…
City Profile
Madurai city, in the state of Tamil Nadu, is one of the ancient temple cities of India and has been existing since two millennia. It is the second largest city in terms of area and the third largest in terms of population in the state. Despite this, the city’s population and economy is shrinking. In 2010, the city’s boundary expanded to cover the entire urban agglomeration. But even after 9 years of integration, differences exist between the newl…
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…
Correlates of opium use
The study reveals the sociodemographic factors, such as age, sex, ethnicity, religion and occupation, which are associated with opium use. Such information is useful for institution of intervention measures to reduce opium use
Heading towards the Safer Highways
These evaluation study results highlight the ability of intensive program to reach truckers who have sex outside marriage with HIV prevention interventions and promote safe sex behaviors among them. Truckers who practice safe sex behaviors with an exposure to intensive program are less likely to suffer from STIs and HIV, which has implications for HIV prevention program with truckers' population in India and elsewhere. The simultaneous targeted i…
SP1-67 Can we live longer by eliminating diseases of circulatory system
Introduction Life expectancy is used as a development indicator for measuring developing of any country. Developed countries of the world have achieved considerable increase in life expectancy due to advancement in medical science. However, developing countries are still struggling hard to achieve the same level. The cause-specific death rates can demonstrate most prevalent diseases in the country. An age and cause specific death rate would give …
P1-376 Impact assessment of icds food fortification in the state of Uttar-Pradesh, India
Objective We planned to assess the impact of fortified food through a community based research study of children aged 12–59 months in Uttar Pradesh. Methods We used a quasi experimental design in Kanpur dehat district where fortified food was to be initiated. Sample size calculation required 750 participants. 30 villages (matched for socio-economic and demographic factors) from each block (intervention, control and benchmark) were selected. From …
SP1-49 Cervical cancer in relation to tobacco habits
Introduction Non-communicable diseases (eg, cancer) have become a high profile issue for healthcare delivery planners in India. In view of limited resources, there is a need for an integrated approach to the control of cancers with common aetiologies. Cancer of the uterine cervix is one of the leading malignancies in Indian women. The present exercise attempts to study the relationship between cervical cancer and tobacco related cancers based on …
Adolescent Transition to Coitus and Premarital Childbearing in Sudan
This paper examines the biosocial basis of premarital sexual and reproductive behaviour among women in Sudan. It applies Udry's biosocial perspective, which attempts to reconcile the biological and sociological models of premarital sexual and reproductive behaviour. World Fertility Survey (WFS) data were used to study premarital first motherhood. Early puberty was found to be paramount in determining childbearing in a separate biological model, b…
Do incentives matter? – Evaluation of a family planning program in India
Puberty and the family formation process in Sudan
This paper revisits and extends an inquiry on the age-at-menarche differential fecundity hypothesis. Earlier studies have interpreted the difference in the onset of female pubertal maturation as indicative of biological differences in fecundity between early and late menarcheal women. Using the WFS data for Sudan, the authors address the entire reproductive life of the women in terms of their transition from one parity to the next, as well as the…
Child mortality in Goa
This paper is a study of the determinants of child mortality in the relatively developed Indian state of Goa. Data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS, 1992-93) conducted in the state of Goa have been used to examine the child mortality experiences of 1,331 women who were within a marriage lasting 15 years. An aggregated index of child mortality, which summarizes the mortality experiences of a woman with exposure adjustment, is the study…
Social development and population dynamics in Bihar
Distribution of closed birth intervals with some biosocial components
Here we propound a stochastic model to describe the variation in the length of closed birth intervals by birth order for women of a given marriage duration. The model accounts for two biosocial components: adolescent sterility and temporary separation between the partners (called an inoperative period at the beginning of the reproductive process). Applying the model on an observed set of data, we estimate the risk of conception and the extent of …
Determinants of breast-feeding and post-partum amenorrhoea in Orissa
A life table analysis is made of the duration of breast-feeding and postpartum amenorrhoea in Orissa, India, taking one variable at a time using data from a baseline survey of fertility and mortality (BSFM) conducted on the lines of the World Fertility Survey. Then a multivariate (proportional hazard) analysis showed that socioeconomic factors including residence, caste status and education influence the breast-feeding and post-partum amenorrhoea…
Do incentives matter? – Evaluation of a family planning program in India
Child mortality in Goa
This paper is a study of the determinants of child mortality in the relatively developed Indian state of Goa. Data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS, 1992-93) conducted in the state of Goa have been used to examine the child mortality experiences of 1,331 women who were within a marriage lasting 15 years. An aggregated index of child mortality, which summarizes the mortality experiences of a woman with exposure adjustment, is the study…
Distribution of closed birth intervals with some biosocial components
Here we propound a stochastic model to describe the variation in the length of closed birth intervals by birth order for women of a given marriage duration. The model accounts for two biosocial components: adolescent sterility and temporary separation between the partners (called an inoperative period at the beginning of the reproductive process). Applying the model on an observed set of data, we estimate the risk of conception and the extent of …
Determinants of breast-feeding and post-partum amenorrhoea in Orissa
A life table analysis is made of the duration of breast-feeding and postpartum amenorrhoea in Orissa, India, taking one variable at a time using data from a baseline survey of fertility and mortality (BSFM) conducted on the lines of the World Fertility Survey. Then a multivariate (proportional hazard) analysis showed that socioeconomic factors including residence, caste status and education influence the breast-feeding and post-partum amenorrhoea…
Distribution of closed birth intervals with some biosocial components
Here we propound a stochastic model to describe the variation in the length of closed birth intervals by birth order for women of a given marriage duration. The model accounts for two biosocial components: adolescent sterility and temporary separation between the partners (called an inoperative period at the beginning of the reproductive process). Applying the model on an observed set of data, we estimate the risk of conception and the extent of …
Social development and population dynamics in Bihar
Child mortality in Goa
This paper is a study of the determinants of child mortality in the relatively developed Indian state of Goa. Data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS, 1992-93) conducted in the state of Goa have been used to examine the child mortality experiences of 1,331 women who were within a marriage lasting 15 years. An aggregated index of child mortality, which summarizes the mortality experiences of a woman with exposure adjustment, is the study…
Puberty and the family formation process in Sudan
This paper revisits and extends an inquiry on the age-at-menarche differential fecundity hypothesis. Earlier studies have interpreted the difference in the onset of female pubertal maturation as indicative of biological differences in fecundity between early and late menarcheal women. Using the WFS data for Sudan, the authors address the entire reproductive life of the women in terms of their transition from one parity to the next, as well as the…
Adolescent Transition to Coitus and Premarital Childbearing in Sudan
This paper examines the biosocial basis of premarital sexual and reproductive behaviour among women in Sudan. It applies Udry's biosocial perspective, which attempts to reconcile the biological and sociological models of premarital sexual and reproductive behaviour. World Fertility Survey (WFS) data were used to study premarital first motherhood. Early puberty was found to be paramount in determining childbearing in a separate biological model, b…
Do incentives matter? – Evaluation of a family planning program in India
Heading towards the Safer Highways
These evaluation study results highlight the ability of intensive program to reach truckers who have sex outside marriage with HIV prevention interventions and promote safe sex behaviors among them. Truckers who practice safe sex behaviors with an exposure to intensive program are less likely to suffer from STIs and HIV, which has implications for HIV prevention program with truckers' population in India and elsewhere. The simultaneous targeted i…
SP1-67 Can we live longer by eliminating diseases of circulatory system
Introduction Life expectancy is used as a development indicator for measuring developing of any country. Developed countries of the world have achieved considerable increase in life expectancy due to advancement in medical science. However, developing countries are still struggling hard to achieve the same level. The cause-specific death rates can demonstrate most prevalent diseases in the country. An age and cause specific death rate would give …
P1-376 Impact assessment of icds food fortification in the state of Uttar-Pradesh, India
Objective We planned to assess the impact of fortified food through a community based research study of children aged 12–59 months in Uttar Pradesh. Methods We used a quasi experimental design in Kanpur dehat district where fortified food was to be initiated. Sample size calculation required 750 participants. 30 villages (matched for socio-economic and demographic factors) from each block (intervention, control and benchmark) were selected. From …
SP1-49 Cervical cancer in relation to tobacco habits
Introduction Non-communicable diseases (eg, cancer) have become a high profile issue for healthcare delivery planners in India. In view of limited resources, there is a need for an integrated approach to the control of cancers with common aetiologies. Cancer of the uterine cervix is one of the leading malignancies in Indian women. The present exercise attempts to study the relationship between cervical cancer and tobacco related cancers based on …
Correlates of opium use
The study reveals the sociodemographic factors, such as age, sex, ethnicity, religion and occupation, which are associated with opium use. Such information is useful for institution of intervention measures to reduce opium use
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…
City Profile
Madurai city, in the state of Tamil Nadu, is one of the ancient temple cities of India and has been existing since two millennia. It is the second largest city in terms of area and the third largest in terms of population in the state. Despite this, the city’s population and economy is shrinking. In 2010, the city’s boundary expanded to cover the entire urban agglomeration. But even after 9 years of integration, differences exist between the newl…
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Effect of home-based newborn care on neonatal and infant mortality
BACKGROUND: Home-based newborn care has been found to reduce neonatal mortality in rural areas. Study evaluated effectiveness of home-based care delivered by specially recruited newborn care workers- Shishu Rakshak (SR) and existing workers- anganwadi workers (AWW) in reducing neonatal and infant mortality rates. METHODS: This three-arm, community-based, cluster randomised trial was conducted in five districts in India. Intervention package consi…
Spatial Structures and Trends of Cities in Europe and Asia
Human civilization reached a milestone in the first decade of the 21st century, when the global urban population became higher than rural for the first time. However, the process of urbanisation is not uniform across the globe, and striking differences exist in the spatial structure and trends of urbanisation in developed and developing regions because of varying rates of demographic and economic growth. The success of Sustainable Development Goa…
Exploring Rural–Urban Inequality in India in the Post-economic Reform Period
Structural reforms were adopted by India in the early 1990s. Despite a slowdown in the major economies of the world due to global financial crisis in 2008–2009, Indian economy has consistently performed better and achieved a growth rate of 8–9 per cent in the past decade. The proponents of the economic reforms thus believe that the measures of structural adjustment would bring about economic growth and narrow down the rural–urban gap in India. In…
Social networks as providers of social protection to urban migrants in Delhi
Why are social networks necessary at the place of destination? What roles do they play as a form of “social capital” for newly arrived migrants in urban centers? These are some relevant questions that scholars in migration studies have explored, especially in the context of international migration, but significant gaps exist in the case of internal migration. Using the migration history of the head of 400 households living in eight slum areas of …
Augmenting progress on the elimination of vertical transmissions of HIV in India
The government of India has adopted the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV as one of the five high-level goals under phase V of the National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NACP). In this paper, we present the data from HIV estimations 2021 for India and select States detailing the progress as well as the attributable causes for vertical transmissions. The NACP spearheads work on mathematical modelling to estimate HIV burden based on the…
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Developing and validating a tool for assessing the confidence in the competence of midwifery tutors in India on WHO core competency domains
Negligible quantitative research evidence exists on standardisation and psychometric validation of questionnaires that measure midwifery educators’ confidence in their competence. This study developed a self-assessment of confidence in competence questionnaire in India based on the WHO Midwifery Educator Core Competencies (2014) with an aim to develop and validate a self-assessment tool measuring midwifery tutors’ confidence in competence in impa…
Developing and validating a self-assessment tool for assessing confidence of nurse-midwives against competency domains of the International Confederation of Midwives, in India
While midwives are recognized as primary care-providers for maternal and new-born care in many parts of the world, India is transitioning to professional midwifery. The pathway to midwifery in India has been through integrated nursing and midwifery education. Since 2018, India has introduced an 18-month post nursing midwifery education programme. To establish a baseline for midwives’ competence and measure progress, there is a need for a quick, e…
Projected impact of fast-tracking of anti-retroviral treatment coverage on vertical transmission of HIV in India
One of the five high-level goals under Phase V of the National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NACP) of the Government of India is the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV. In this paper, we estimate the potential impact of maintaining and enhancing the anti-retroviral treatment under the NACP in terms of averting new infections and vertical transmission rates vis-à-vis no intervention scenario. We used India’s HIV Estimates 2022 models to…
Population (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Demography (15 works) · Environmental health (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (7 works) · Political science (6 works)