Santosh Kumar Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 4090166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Santosh Kumar Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Santosh Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute for Population Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3715-2054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Existence of Fixed Point via Self-Mapping of Enriched G_b-Contraction in G_b-Metric Spaces
In the present work we show here, we prove some fixed point results on enriched G_b-complete metric space for a novel contraction and produce some enriching fixed point results utilising Banach G_b-contraction enriching G_b-metric spaces. The suggested results compile a few earlier findings based on G_b-metric space
Prevalence and risk factors of physical violence against husbands: Evidence from India
As the proportion of women being victims of spousal violence in India is higher than men, laws are usually framed to safeguard women. However, men who have experienced physical spousal violence are not unheard of. The study aims to provide the nationwide prevalence of physical violence against husbands and the risk factors for such violence, using large-scale nationally representative ‘National Family Health Survey’ (NFHS 4) data. The study used …
Are institutional deliveries equitable in the southern states of India? A benefit incidence analysis
Poorer groups utilize the public sector for institutional delivery in greater proportions than the private sector. Middle quintiles seem to benefit the most from public subsidy in terms of the median cost of service and non-payment. Greater efforts must be made to understand how and why these groups are being left behind and what policy measures can enhance their inclusion and financial risk protection
Assessing the impact of measurement error in household consumption on estimates of catastrophic health expenditure in India
The National Sample Survey (NSS) collects reliable data on morbidity, health care, and health spending through its annual multi-subject and multi-round health surveys. Evidences from these surveys have been extensively used for research and policy. While these surveys collect comprehensive information on morbidity, hospitalisation, health expenditure, information on household consumption expenditure (which is used to explain the economic gradient…
Attitude towards negotiating safer sexual relations: Exploring power dynamics among married couples in India
The study primarily focuses on analyzing married women’s attitudes towards negotiating safer sex in two contexts. The first context is when a woman refuses to have sex with husband if she knows her husband has a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the second is when she does so if she knows he has sex with other women. The study examined predictors of Indian women’s attitude towards negotiating safer-sex using data on 92,306 ever married women…
Assessing inequalities in publicly funded health insurance scheme coverage and out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization: Findings from a household survey in Kerala
While PFHIS seems to be appropriately targeting poorer populations, among the insured, OOPE for hospitalization persists. Among the uninsured, population subgroups with advantage are spending the greatest amount, raising questions about whether those facing relative disadvantage are forgoing care altogether or seeking care using cheaper, public avenues. Further policy action to more effectively reduce financial burden among left behind eligible p…
Gender-specific inequalities in coverage of Publicly Funded Health Insurance Schemes in Southern States of India: Evidence from National Family Health Surveys
We found gender inequalities in self-reported enrolment in southern states with long-standing PFHIS. Inequalities favoured the poor, uneducated and elderly, which is to some extend desirable when rolling out a PFHIS intended for harder to reach populations. However, religion and caste-based inequalities, while reducing, were still prevalent among women. If PFHIS are to truly offer financial risk protection, they must address the intersecting marg…
Changing the Discourse on Caesarean Births in India: Issues emerging from NFHS-5 (2019–2021)
Effectiveness of modular approach in ensuring data quality in large-scale surveys: Evidence from National Family Health Survey – 4 (2015–2016)
This study aims to examine the effect of administration of shorter and longer versions of questionnaires on key indicators such as age displacement, birth displacement, age heaping, and skipping questions on antenatal care (ANC) visits and use of contraceptive methods in India using National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 data. At the individual level, the effect of the adoption of the shorter and longer versions of the questionnaires on the age d…
Inconsistency in prevalence of hypertension based on self-reports and use of standard tests: Implications for large scale surveys
The significant deviance of self-reporting of hypertension from the prevalence derived based on standard tests further indicates the need for adopting standard tests in all emerging future large-scale surveys. A back-check survey is recommended to understand and differentiate the excessive false-positive reporting of hypertension among women aged 15-35 years
Asset and consumption gradient of health estimates in India: Implications for survey and public health research
The wealth index based on household assets and amenities is been increasingly used to explain economic variations of health outcomes in the developing countries. While the variables used to compute the wealth index are easy to collect and time- and cost-effective, the wealth index tends to have an urban bias, uses arbitrary weighting, does not provide per capita measures and is a poor measure of inequality. We used micro data from two of the larg…
Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in blood pressure and blood glucose testing: Evidence from four districts in Kerala, India
While the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in NCD risk factor testing did not appear to be very high in four Kerala districts, although levels were statistically significant in three of them. Greater exploration is needed on how education and caste contribute to these inequalities and their relationship to NCD risk factors such as family history. From such analyses, we may be able to identify entry points to mitigate inequalities in testing …
Prevalence and determinants of nutritional status among women and children in Pakistan
This study has highlighted determinants associated with maternal and child nutritional status, whereby the child's nutritional status was measured by stunting, wasting, and underweight, and BMI measured the mother's nutritional status. The main risk factors for a child's poor nutritional status include low household wealth, urban residence, and mother's educational status. Similarly, the main risk factors for women's poor nutritional status inclu…
Socioeconomic inequalities in the HIV testing during antenatal care: Evidence from Indian demographic health survey, 2015–16
The socioeconomic inequities in HIV testing during pregnancy should be monitored and addressed in order to ensure an equitable distribution of the benefits specially among children and accomplishments of HIV programs in India
Development disparities across urban localities of Maharashtra: A multilevel analysis
Prevalence and determinants of consanguineous marriage and its types in India: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2015–2016
The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence and examine the determinants of consanguineous marriage types in India. Data for 456,646 ever-married women aged 15–49 years were analysed from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 conducted in 2015–16. The overall prevalence of consanguineous marriage was 9.9%; the South region (23%) and North-East region (3.1%) showed the highest and lowest prevalences, respectively. Muslims had …
Covariates of Multiplicity of High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Men in India: Evidence from the Latest Indian Demographic and Health Survey
Linkages between consanguineous marriages and childhood stunting: Evidence from a cross-sectional study in India
Deciphering disparities in childhood stunting in an underdeveloped state of India: An investigation applying the unconditional quantile regression method
The state must focus on intersectoral convergence of different schemes in the form of state nutrition mission, and, strengthen nutrition-centric policy processes and their political underpinnings to harness better dividend
Transitions in adolescent boys and young Men’s high-risk sexual behaviour in India
The study concludes that early sexual debut, lower prevalence of condom use at first sexual experience, tendency of live-in-relationship, and alcohol consumption indicate the hazardous interconnection between such behaviours among adolescent boys over the last decade which placed them at higher-risky sexual behaviour as compared to young men. Adolescent' sexual behaviours have both short-term and long-term consequences, and interventions that foc…
Risky Sexual Behavior and HIV/STI among Injecting Drug Users in India: Findings from Large-Scale Bio-Behavioral Surveys in Nagaland, Manipur and Maharashtra, India
Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) are vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as they are exposed to unsafe practices such as needle sharing and unprotected sex. This study utilized data from surveys conducted in India by Integrated behavioral and Biological assessment (IBBA) Phase 1 (2005-06) and Phase 2 (2009-10) in states having highest HIV/STIs prevalence. The study examines socio-demographic char…
Influence of Profession as Risk of STIs in Intimate Partner Relationship in South Asian Countries
Covariates of Multiplicity of Risk Behavior Among Injecting Drug Users in Nepal
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Covariates of Multiplicity of Risk Behavior Among Injecting Drug Users in Nepal
Influence of Profession as Risk of STIs in Intimate Partner Relationship in South Asian Countries
Risky Sexual Behavior and HIV/STI among Injecting Drug Users in India: Findings from Large-Scale Bio-Behavioral Surveys in Nagaland, Manipur and Maharashtra, India
Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) are vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as they are exposed to unsafe practices such as needle sharing and unprotected sex. This study utilized data from surveys conducted in India by Integrated behavioral and Biological assessment (IBBA) Phase 1 (2005-06) and Phase 2 (2009-10) in states having highest HIV/STIs prevalence. The study examines socio-demographic char…
Deciphering disparities in childhood stunting in an underdeveloped state of India: An investigation applying the unconditional quantile regression method
The state must focus on intersectoral convergence of different schemes in the form of state nutrition mission, and, strengthen nutrition-centric policy processes and their political underpinnings to harness better dividend
Transitions in adolescent boys and young Men’s high-risk sexual behaviour in India
The study concludes that early sexual debut, lower prevalence of condom use at first sexual experience, tendency of live-in-relationship, and alcohol consumption indicate the hazardous interconnection between such behaviours among adolescent boys over the last decade which placed them at higher-risky sexual behaviour as compared to young men. Adolescent' sexual behaviours have both short-term and long-term consequences, and interventions that foc…
Development disparities across urban localities of Maharashtra: A multilevel analysis
Prevalence and determinants of consanguineous marriage and its types in India: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2015–2016
The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence and examine the determinants of consanguineous marriage types in India. Data for 456,646 ever-married women aged 15–49 years were analysed from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 conducted in 2015–16. The overall prevalence of consanguineous marriage was 9.9%; the South region (23%) and North-East region (3.1%) showed the highest and lowest prevalences, respectively. Muslims had …
Covariates of Multiplicity of High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Men in India: Evidence from the Latest Indian Demographic and Health Survey
Linkages between consanguineous marriages and childhood stunting: Evidence from a cross-sectional study in India
Changing the Discourse on Caesarean Births in India: Issues emerging from NFHS-5 (2019–2021)
Effectiveness of modular approach in ensuring data quality in large-scale surveys: Evidence from National Family Health Survey – 4 (2015–2016)
This study aims to examine the effect of administration of shorter and longer versions of questionnaires on key indicators such as age displacement, birth displacement, age heaping, and skipping questions on antenatal care (ANC) visits and use of contraceptive methods in India using National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 data. At the individual level, the effect of the adoption of the shorter and longer versions of the questionnaires on the age d…
Inconsistency in prevalence of hypertension based on self-reports and use of standard tests: Implications for large scale surveys
The significant deviance of self-reporting of hypertension from the prevalence derived based on standard tests further indicates the need for adopting standard tests in all emerging future large-scale surveys. A back-check survey is recommended to understand and differentiate the excessive false-positive reporting of hypertension among women aged 15-35 years
Asset and consumption gradient of health estimates in India: Implications for survey and public health research
The wealth index based on household assets and amenities is been increasingly used to explain economic variations of health outcomes in the developing countries. While the variables used to compute the wealth index are easy to collect and time- and cost-effective, the wealth index tends to have an urban bias, uses arbitrary weighting, does not provide per capita measures and is a poor measure of inequality. We used micro data from two of the larg…
Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in blood pressure and blood glucose testing: Evidence from four districts in Kerala, India
While the magnitude of socioeconomic inequality in NCD risk factor testing did not appear to be very high in four Kerala districts, although levels were statistically significant in three of them. Greater exploration is needed on how education and caste contribute to these inequalities and their relationship to NCD risk factors such as family history. From such analyses, we may be able to identify entry points to mitigate inequalities in testing …
Prevalence and determinants of nutritional status among women and children in Pakistan
This study has highlighted determinants associated with maternal and child nutritional status, whereby the child's nutritional status was measured by stunting, wasting, and underweight, and BMI measured the mother's nutritional status. The main risk factors for a child's poor nutritional status include low household wealth, urban residence, and mother's educational status. Similarly, the main risk factors for women's poor nutritional status inclu…
Socioeconomic inequalities in the HIV testing during antenatal care: Evidence from Indian demographic health survey, 2015–16
The socioeconomic inequities in HIV testing during pregnancy should be monitored and addressed in order to ensure an equitable distribution of the benefits specially among children and accomplishments of HIV programs in India
Assessing the impact of measurement error in household consumption on estimates of catastrophic health expenditure in India
The National Sample Survey (NSS) collects reliable data on morbidity, health care, and health spending through its annual multi-subject and multi-round health surveys. Evidences from these surveys have been extensively used for research and policy. While these surveys collect comprehensive information on morbidity, hospitalisation, health expenditure, information on household consumption expenditure (which is used to explain the economic gradient…
Attitude towards negotiating safer sexual relations: Exploring power dynamics among married couples in India
The study primarily focuses on analyzing married women’s attitudes towards negotiating safer sex in two contexts. The first context is when a woman refuses to have sex with husband if she knows her husband has a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the second is when she does so if she knows he has sex with other women. The study examined predictors of Indian women’s attitude towards negotiating safer-sex using data on 92,306 ever married women…
Assessing inequalities in publicly funded health insurance scheme coverage and out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization: Findings from a household survey in Kerala
While PFHIS seems to be appropriately targeting poorer populations, among the insured, OOPE for hospitalization persists. Among the uninsured, population subgroups with advantage are spending the greatest amount, raising questions about whether those facing relative disadvantage are forgoing care altogether or seeking care using cheaper, public avenues. Further policy action to more effectively reduce financial burden among left behind eligible p…
Gender-specific inequalities in coverage of Publicly Funded Health Insurance Schemes in Southern States of India: Evidence from National Family Health Surveys
We found gender inequalities in self-reported enrolment in southern states with long-standing PFHIS. Inequalities favoured the poor, uneducated and elderly, which is to some extend desirable when rolling out a PFHIS intended for harder to reach populations. However, religion and caste-based inequalities, while reducing, were still prevalent among women. If PFHIS are to truly offer financial risk protection, they must address the intersecting marg…
Existence of Fixed Point via Self-Mapping of Enriched G_b-Contraction in G_b-Metric Spaces
In the present work we show here, we prove some fixed point results on enriched G_b-complete metric space for a novel contraction and produce some enriching fixed point results utilising Banach G_b-contraction enriching G_b-metric spaces. The suggested results compile a few earlier findings based on G_b-metric space
Prevalence and risk factors of physical violence against husbands: Evidence from India
As the proportion of women being victims of spousal violence in India is higher than men, laws are usually framed to safeguard women. However, men who have experienced physical spousal violence are not unheard of. The study aims to provide the nationwide prevalence of physical violence against husbands and the risk factors for such violence, using large-scale nationally representative ‘National Family Health Survey’ (NFHS 4) data. The study used …
Are institutional deliveries equitable in the southern states of India? A benefit incidence analysis
Poorer groups utilize the public sector for institutional delivery in greater proportions than the private sector. Middle quintiles seem to benefit the most from public subsidy in terms of the median cost of service and non-payment. Greater efforts must be made to understand how and why these groups are being left behind and what policy measures can enhance their inclusion and financial risk protection
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