Prabhat Jha

Biographic Data

ID3863628
NAMEPrabhat Jha
GIVEN NAMESPrabhat
FAMILY NAMEJha
SIGNATUREJHA P
AFFILIATIONSSt. Michael's Hospital
ORCID0000-0001-7067-8341
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR39
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Trends and risk factors for suicide mortality in India from 2001–2019

    Open AccessWilson Suraweera, Sonali Amarasekera et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    One in four of all global suicide deaths occurs in India, yet the epidemiology of suicide mortality in India remains largely undocumented. We analyzed over 20,000 suicides among 829,000 deaths collected from 2001-2019 within a nationally representative random sample of about 1% of Indian homes using lay field reporting with dual central medical adjudication of causes. We applied suicide death proportions to national demographic totals to estimate…

  • High Sars-CoV-2 seroincidence but low excess Covid mortality in Sierra Leone in 2020–2022

    Open AccessAhmed Osman, Ashley Aimone et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    While SARS-CoV-2 infection appears to have spread widely throughout Africa, documentation of associated mortality is limited. We implemented a representative serosurvey in one city of Sierra Leone in Western Africa, paired with nationally representative mortality and selected death registration data. Cumulative seroincidence using high quality SARS-CoV-2 serological assays was 69% by July 2021, rising to 84% by April 2022, mostly preceding SARS-C…

  • Taxation of tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages

    Open AccessGuillermo Paraje, Prabhat Jha et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    The article reviews the large body of evidence on how taxation affects the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). There is abundant evidence that demand for tobacco, alcohol, and SSB is price-responsive and that tax changes are quickly passed on to consumers. This suggests that taxes can be highly effective in changing consumption and reducing the burden of diseases associated with consuming these products. Tobacco,…

  • Ethical and cultural implications for conducting verbal autopsies in South and Southeast Asia

    Open AccessNan Shwe Nwe Htun, Carlo Perrone et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Causes of deaths often go unrecorded in lower income countries, yet this information is critical. Verbal autopsy is a questionnaire interview with a family member or caregiver to elicit the symptoms and circumstances preceding a death and assign a probable cause. The social and cultural aspects of verbal autopsy have gotten less attention than the technical aspects and have not been widely explored in South and Southeast Asia settin…

  • The distributional effects of tobacco tax increases across regions in Mexico

    Open AccessBelén Sáenz-De-Miera, D C Wu et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2022

    The most significant gains from a substantial cigarette price increase would be for the poorest 20%, especially in the South, the most impoverished region of Mexico. Therefore, tobacco taxes are an opportunity for governments to advance in equity and towards the achievement of sustainable development goals on non-communicable diseases

  • Comparison of mortality hazard ratios associated with health behaviours in Canada and the United States

    Open AccessStacey Fisher, Carol Bennett et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Even when methodological and population differences are minimal, the association of health behaviours and mortality can vary across populations. It is therefore important to be cautious of between-study variation when aggregating relative effect estimates from differing populations, and when using external effect estimates for population health research and policy development

  • Beneficios del impuesto a los cigarros en México

    Open AccessLuz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu, Belén Sáenz-De-Miera et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2022

    Objetivo. Estimar los beneficios económicos y en salud, por sexo y por quintil de ingreso, del incremento de los precios de los cigarros mediante impuestos en México. Métodos. Con un modelo de costo-efectividad extendido (ECEA, por su sigla en inglés) se estimaron los beneficios distributivos en mujeres y hombres con un escenario de incremento del precio de los cigarros de 44% (de 56,4 pesos mexicanos [MX$] a MX$81,2 por cajetilla), como resultad…

  • Sars-CoV-2 rapid antigen screening of asymptomatic employees

    Open AccessKevin L Schwartz, Isaac I Bogoch et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2022References: 10

  • Rethinking routine airline testing during Covid-19

    Open AccessAshley Nunes, Prabhat JhaARTICLENature Human Behaviour2022References: 7

  • Comparison of machine learning algorithms applied to symptoms to determine infectious causes of death in children

    Open AccessSusan Idicula‐Thomas, Susan Idicula-Thomas et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Overall, this study affirms that verbal autopsy tools are efficient in CoD diagnosis and that automated classification parameters captured through ML could be added to verbal autopsies to improve classification of causes of death

  • You cannot touch taxes easily’

    Open AccessShreelata Rao Seshadri, Radhika Kaulgud et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    India represents over 1.3 billion people with >100 million adult smokers. The catastrophic health costs of smoking are staggering; and estimates show that even modest increases in taxes on cigarettes and bidis would both raise substantial revenues for the government and save ∼69 million years of healthy life over the next four decades. Karnataka represents a good example of tobacco control efforts and their impact. This case study examines the fa…

  • Implications of household tobacco and alcohol use on child health and women's welfare in six low and middle-income countries

    Open AccessD C Wu, Gary Shannon et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 2References: 31

  • Creative Expressions from the architectural landscape of working-class settlements. The Experience of Ankur-Delhi

    Open AccessJaya Shrivastava, Prabhat Kumar Jha et al.ARTICLEAstrágalo Cultura de la…2020

    Ankur Society for Alternatives in Education has been actively engaged in working class settlements in the city of Delhi for over three decades. At present it is working in five locations. A vision of justice, peace, humanism and creativity, regard for diversity and faith in the intrinsic genius of ordinary people, informs the work of the organisation. Its pedagogical interventions involve children and young persons in research and writing on thei…

  • Distributional benefits of tobacco tax and smoke–free workplaces in China

    Open AccessStéphane Verguet, Gillian A M Tarr et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Tobacco taxation and smoke-free workplaces reduce smoking, tobacco-related premature deaths and associated out-of-pocket health care expenditures. We examine the distributional consequences of a price increase in tobacco products through an excise tax hike, and of an implementation of smoke-free workplaces, in China. METHODS: We use extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA) to evaluate, across income quintiles of the male population…

  • The impact of cigarette smoking on life expectancy between 1980 and 2010

    Elisenda Rentería, Prabhat Jha et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2015

    Recent trends indicate a substantial rise in the population-level impact of tobacco smoking on life expectancy in women and in middle-income countries. High-quality local data are needed in most low-income countries

  • Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco

    Prabhat Jha, Richard PetoARTICLENew England Journal of Medicine2014

    O n the basis of current smoking patterns, with a global ave rage of about 50% of young men and 10% of young women becoming smokers and relatively few stopping, annual tobacco-attributable deaths will rise from about 5 million in 2010 to more than 10 million a few decades hence, 1-3 as the young smokers of today reach middle and old age. This increase is due partly to population growth and partly to the fact that, in some large populations, gener…

  • Estimates of the economic contributions of the bidi manufacturing industry in India

    Arindam Nandi, Ashvin Ashok et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2014

    Considering the relatively small economic footprint of the bidi industry in India, higher excise taxes and regulations on bidis are unlikely to disrupt economic growth at an aggregate level, or lead to mass unemployment and economic hardship among small bidi workers. On average, the economic annual output per bidi worker is about US$143, which is an order of magnitude smaller than the large economic losses from the several hundred thousand deaths…

  • St-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United States

    Prabhat Jha, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige et al.ARTICLENew England Journal of Medicine2013

    BACKGROUND: Extrapolation from studies in the 1980s suggests that smoking causes 25% of deaths among women and men 35 to 69 years of age in the United States. Nationally representative measurements of the current risks of smoking and the benefits of cessation at various ages are unavailable. METHODS: We obtained smoking and smoking-cessation histories from 113,752 women and 88,496 men 25 years of age or older who were interviewed between 1997 and…

  • An observational study to assess changes in social inequality in smoking-attributable upper aero digestive tract cancer mortality among Canadian males between 1986 and 2001

    Open AccessSonica Singhal, Carlos Quiñonez et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    The present analyses reveal that between 1986 and 2001, smoking-attributable UADT cancer mortality rates among adult males (35-69 years) in Canada reduced in all social strata and the social inequalities in these rates have narrowed. Analysis of more current data will be of interest to confirm these trends

  • Suicide mortality in India

    Open AccessVikram Patel, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2012

  • Unintentional injury mortality in India, 2005

    Open AccessJagnoor Jagnoor, Wilson Suraweera et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    These direct estimates of unintentional injury deaths in India (0.6 million) are lower than WHO indirect estimates (0.8 million), but double the estimates which rely on police reports (0.3 million). Importantly, they revise upward the mortality due to falls, particularly in the elderly, and revise downward mortality due to fires. Ongoing monitoring of injury mortality will enable development of evidence based injury prevention programs

  • Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis

    Open AccessRobert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2011

  • Trends in selective abortions of girls in India

    Open AccessPrabhat Jha, Maya Kesler et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2011

  • P1-128 A systematic review of sexual risk factors for HIV in India

    Neeraj Dhingra, Prabha Arora et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction India's large HIV epidemic and the potential for epidemic HIV spread in some areas demands a full understanding of HIV transmission. Factors associated with HIV infection in India include: commercial sex work, sexually transmitted infections (STI), numbers of sex partners and male circumcision. We wished to quantify effects of the above risk factors, roughly estimating their size, for each gender and in high- and low-HIV risk populat…

  • O6-4.2 HIV mortality and infection in India

    Prabhat Jha, Ramya Kumar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2011

    Introduction To determine the rates of death and infection from HIV in India in a nationally-representative survey of deaths among 1.1 million homes. Methods Survey of 123 000 deaths at all ages from 2001 to 2003. Main outcome measures HIV mortality and infection. Results HIV accounted for 8.1% (99% CI 5.0% to 11.2%) of all deaths among adults aged 25–34 years. In this age group, about 40% of deaths from HIV were due to AIDS and 26% were due to t…