Vivek Dsouza

Dados Biográficos

ID7581395
NOMEVivek Dsouza
PRENOMESVivek
SOBRENOMEDsouza
ASSINATURADSOUZA V
AFILIAÇÕESInstitute of Public Health Bengaluru
ORCID0000-0001-6297-7720
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS5
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR5
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Representation, activism, health promotion, and communication

    Open AccessMark Donald C Reñosa, Kelly E Perry et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    This viewpoint advocates for the inclusion of art in global health discourse and practice. We explore four areas in which art can be leveraged to improve global health: (1) to amplify disenfranchised voices, (2) to advance social justice activism, (3) to strengthen communities and individuals, and (4) to improve global health communication. Drawing on community-driven art initiatives, we argue for an inclusive approach that respects diverse cultu…

  • A realist evaluation of the implementation of a national tobacco control programme and policy in India

    Open AccessPragati Hebbar, Vivek Dsouza et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    There is a growing interest in studying and unpacking the implementation of policies and programmes as it provides an opportunity to reduce the policy translation time lag taken for research findings to translate into policies and be implemented and to understand why policies may fail. Realist evaluation is a theory-driven approach that embraces complexity and helps to identify the mechanisms generating the observed policy outcomes in a given con…

  • How does Indian news media report smokeless tobacco control? A content analysis of the gutka ban enforcement

    Open AccessVivek Dsouza, Pratiksha Mohan Kembhavi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Smokeless tobacco (SLT) products like gutka and paan masala are a growing public health crisis in India. Despite enacting a ban—the highest form of regulation—little is known about implementation progress. The purpose of this study was to look at how enforcement of gutka ban is covered in Indian news media and if media is a reliable source of data. We conducted a content analysis of online news reports (n = 192) from 2011 to 2019. News characteri…

  • Shifting the gaze on implementation

    Open AccessPragati Hebbar, Upendra Bhojani et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    We find significant association between the implementation of tobacco control laws/programs and tobacco use in India. Our findings highlight the potential that policy implementation holds in reducing population-level tobacco use thus drawing attention towards the implementation phase of policies. The findings have implications on prioritising enforcement of specific tobacco control measures such as smokefree laws, modifying COTPA signages to enco…

  • How do tobacco control policies work in low-income and middle-income countries? A realist synthesis

    Open AccessPragati Hebbar, Vivek Dsouza et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: The burden of tobacco use is disproportionately high in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is scarce theorisation on what works with respect to implementation of tobacco control policies in these settings. Given the complex nature of tobacco control policy implementation, diversity in outcomes of widely implemented policies and the defining role of the context, we conducted a realist synthesis to examine tobacco control p…