Annotated Sources
Wednesday Jan 25 2012
Title – Awareness, knowledge and attitude towards informed consent among doctors
in two different cultures in Asia: a cross-sectional comparative study in
Malaysia and Kashmir, India
Author - Yousuf R M
Description – In this article the author goes and describes
the standard here in America for what is considered, Informed Consent. Then
through a statistical survey given both healthcare professionals and their
patients he determined that the number of patients in India that receive
complete informed consent in only around 20%. 80% of the people who took the
survey felt that they were never really included as to the gravity of their
condition or whether or not they had a part in making the decision when it came
down to who’s opinion mattered more.
Notables – As I was reading this article in particular it
struck me that there is a difference between the trust levels of people in more
patriarchal society like India and here in America.
Friday Jan 27 2012
Title – Ayurveda
Author – Multiple
Description – This is the Wikipedia article on the India
system of medical beliefs that governs the more traditional methodology of how
they perform their medical practices. It is very old, arguably the oldest
systematic medical approach on the planet. It is very traditional and requires
a lot of natural or common remedies that are well known throughout
Notables – The understanding of what this is, has given a
good ground work to focus on as I develop my project proposal and outline.
Monday Jan 30 2012
Title – Analysis of evaluations of
health system/policy interventions in India
Author – LALIT
DANDONA, MAGDALENA Z. RABAN, RAKHI DANDONA
Description – The author did a study of all of the medical
evaluations done on the healthcare systems in India and came up with a list of percentages as to who and what
needs to be done in order to better communicate the status or the Indian
healthcare system. They found particularly that there is a large number of
International Organizations that are commissioning these studies in order to build
momentum for humanitarian aid which might have its own inclinations when
analyzed appropriately.
Notables – The article concludes that it would be very
valuable to have India do more of its own evaluations in order to advance the
quality of healthcare across the board in India.
Friday Feb 3 2012
Title – Transplacental transmission of influenza virus: What do we know?
Author – Andreea A Creanga
Description –
This article outlines the possibility of the transmission of the
influenza virus across the transplacental blood barrier and it was conducted in
a sample of India clinics that have high mortality rate amongst infants in
their clinics.
Monday Feb 6 2012
Title - HEALTH CARE IN INDIA -
VISION 2020 ISSUES AND PROSPECTS
Author - R. Srinivisan
Description - In this 22 page article the author goes
through the current perceptions of the Indian sub continent with the intent on
foreseeing the future of what health care in India is to look like over the next
several years. See article for description of how and what is currently
considered to be the popular forms of health care and what he sees as the
future popular forms of medical attention.
Wednesday Feb 8 2012
Read and article today
outlining the importance of Ayruvedic medicine on Wikipedia. I cite it because
it gave me great insight as to why the people of India are still so focused on
finding alternative forms of medical care. The religious and cultural ties to
the Traditional forms of medicine are without comparison and many of the people
that still practice this form of medicine do so because they were raised on it.
Friday Feb 11 2012
Title: Caste, Social Stigma and Identity Processes
Author: Rusi Jaspal
Journal: Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
This article
outlines the importance that the caste system still plays in India. It also
sheds light on some of the social concerns and stigmas that the Indian people
deal with on an everyday basis. I really appreciated one part in particular
that states the following, “potential rationale underlying caste group members’
resistance to social change vis-à-vis caste, even among those who might be
expected to benefit from such change” The idea is that for there to be
significant change in the societal make up of the people of India the Caste
stigmas and the inability to recognize the holes in society for what they are
need to be fixed.
Moday Feb 13 2012
Title: Test Anxiety Research in India: Twentieth Century in
Retrospect
Author: Anup Sud
Department of Psychology, Himachal Pradesh University,
Shimla, India
This topic is one that I find particularly interesting. The
author takes the viewpoint of the levels of anxiety amongst people over the
course of the twentieth century. Thus it is not necessarily the most
statistically accurate report but it does function to paint a pretty good
picture of the anxiety levels throughout the years with respect to Indian
citizens in state reports and trends in the market. Ive actually thought about
tweaking my project a bit to fit more in these paramaters.
Wednesday Feb 15 2012
Title: History of Homeopathy Medicine in India
Author: Manish Bahatia
Indian Medical Review
In this
On 16th February 1867, Dr. Sircar wrote an
article condemning allopathy titled “On the Supposed Uncertainity in Medical
Science and the Relationship between Diseases and Medicine”. He was the first
man to start a journal on homoeopathy – “India Medical Review” and to attend
the first Homoeopathic National Congress conference under the chairmanship of
Dr. C. Hering.
Friday Feb 17 2012
No Class
Monday Feb 20 2012
Holiday
Wednesday Feb 22 2012
Inquiry Conference
Friday Feb 24 2012
Title:Counseling
for Depression in the Indian Culture
Author: East Illionois University
Source: Journal of Anthropology and Medicine
Description: The article gives and overview and brief description
of all of the current practices in India that are in place to help cope with
Depression.This section of the paper is incredible interesting when considering
the physical of somatic pains concerning depression. “When a person from India is experiencing depression, their
complaints will often be physical instead of emotional. These physical
complaints are somatic symptoms of depression. People in India who have
depression most often present with somatic symptoms initially. These
individuals identify the most troubling aspects of their disorder to be aches
and pains (Raguram, Weiss, Keval, & Channabasavanna, 2000). When working
with someone from the Indian culture, the counselor should pay careful
attention to the client’s physical complaints. The counselor may want to
explore with the client the meaning they attribute to their physical symptoms,
and consider depression as a possible diagnosis.”
Monday Feb 27 2012
Title: Dosha
Author: Wikipedia
Source: Monier Williams Dicitionary, wikipedeia.com
Description: When studying ayurvedic medicine it is
imperitive that there be a basic understadnign of the concept of Doshas. Doshas
are a set of three Humors in the body that make up the constitution of the
body. There three forms are Pitta, Vayu and Kapha.
Wednesday Feb 29 2012
Title: Medical Industry
Diagnosis: Triage for Health Care and New Vision for Life Sciences
Author: Wharton Economic Review Panel
Source: indiaknowledge@wharton.edu
Description: In this discussion there is an interesting
paradox presented that is dissected as the paper moves along The idea is that
in India there is a dichotomy between the type of healthcare that is currently
offered in India and the type of healthcare that is desired in India. Most
people still practice a type or form of Ayurvedic Medicine. This posses and
interesting difference in between what we are talking about and the truth
behind the preferences of Indians themselves
Friday March 2
2012
Title: Allopathic Medicine
Author: Wikipedia
Source: Wikpedia.com and Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.
Copyright 2008 and Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 200
Description:
This entry was great in helping me understand how I was to differentiate
between het wo types’ of medicine in India. I struggle wondering what I would
say to convey the type of medicine that I was referring t but this article
helped me understand a lot more about what I am looking for. A definition
offered by the entry is as follows “the broad category of medical practice that
is sometimes called Western medicine, biomedicine, evidence-based
medicine, or modern medicine”
Monday March 5 2012
Title: Homeopathy Medicine
Author: Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia.com and
Description: In the entry on Wikipedia regarding Medical are
that is administered through the precepts of homeopathic medical care the
following entry was the first paragraph used to describe the medicine.
“Homeopathy is a form of alternative
medicine. Practitioners claim to treat patients using preparations
that are highly diluted[1][2] from constituents believed to cause healthy
people to exhibit symptoms that are similar to those exhibited by the patient.
The collective weight of scientific evidence has
found homeopathy to be no more effective than a placebo.”
This type of Medicine although not directly correlated with
ayurvedic medicine is an accurate description of a term that could be
synonymous with traditional healthcare in India.
Wednesday March 7 2012
Canceled
Friday March 9 2012
Not Required
Monday March 12 2012
Title: Homeopath, How it really works
Author: Jay W. Sheltom
Source: Book: ISBN 9781591021094
Description: Here is a description pulled from a very
western viewpoing to Homeopathy, The popularity of homoeopathy has been increasing
dramatically both in America and worldwide. Annual world sales of homoeopathic
remedies are approaching two billion dollars. In this thorough examination of
homoeopathy, physicist Jay W. Shelton analyses the history, the remedies, the
logical inconsistencies, and the effectiveness of this popular alternative
medicine. This reasoned, balanced, and in-depth assessment will interest both
homoeopaths and conventional medical practitioners, as well as consumers
curious about a well-known and much-publicised alternative medicine.
Wednesday March 14 2012
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Description: I found this list of Hospitals in India. I
found it very interesting not because the list was short or non-descriptive but
more so because the Indian government put up the list and there was not type of
Ayurvedic medical facility on the list. Below is the list pulled form the
website(formatting got a little messed up so visit the website for perhaps a
better understanding. However when you follow a side link you can find non
allopathic Hospitals in India and there are two headings, Homeopath and
Ayurvedic Hospitals.
Types of
Hospitals in India Cancer Hospitals
in India
Cardiology
Hospitals in India
Children
Hospitals in India
Dental
Hospitals in India
Emergency Hospitals in India
ENT Hospitals in India
Eye Hospitals in India
Gastroenterologist
Hospitals in India
Maternity Hospitals in India
Orthopaedic Hospitals in India
Mental Hospitals in India
Neurology Hospitals in India
Psychiatric Hospitals in India
Radiology Hospitals in India
Veterinary Hospitals in India
Friday March 16 2012
Canceled
Monday March 19 2012
Title: Autism In India
Author: Jasola Vihar
Source: http://www.autism-india.org/afa_autisminindia.html
Description: This article defines why the problem of having
an underdeveloped medical infrastructure is so difficult in assigning figures
and numbers to problems of the world. The research is not yet available to the
extent that is necessary to define what the level or prevalence of autism is in
India. This article does however give great insight into how the life of a
family with Autism might be in rural India.
Wednesday March 21 2012
Title: How common are the “common” neurologic disorders?
Authors: D. Hirtz, MD; D.J. Thurman, MD, MPH; K.
Gwinn-Hardy, MD; M. Mohamed, MPH; A.R. Chaudhuri, PhD; and R. Zalutsky, PhD
Source: http://members.sirweb.org/members/misc/Hirtz.pdf
This article analyzes the prevalence of different disorders
and gives us the specifics regarding common neurological disorders among a
sample population of average americans. And it finds that the rates of
neurological disorders in America simply dwarfs other countries. The average
americanf for example is on average 20 times more likely to be depressed than
an India.
See table 3 http://members.sirweb.org/members/misc/Hirtz.pdf
Friday March 23 2012
Title: Poor People More Likely to Have Experienced
Depression
Author: CATHERINE
RAMPELL
Source: Economix: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/poor-people-more-likely-to-have-experienced-depression/#
People who consider them selves poor have twice the change
of reporting depression. There also is a clear correlation between the cultures
that experience depression and what they report as their depression levels.
Monday March 26 2012
Title: Emerging Trends in Indian Healthcare
Author: Madhok and the Emphasis Group (NGO specializing in
Medicine awareness)
Source: PowerPoint presentation www.fundsis.org/docs_act/1_RMadhok_(India)_2part.ppt
Description: This power point make quick work of finding
information that is published on fundisi website. It is mainly a Spanish
website but this powerpoint was presented in English. It chronicles the current
trends and directions that medicine in India is currently taking.
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