Submissions from 2007
Gender sensitization among health providers and communities through transformative learning tools: experiences from Karachi, Pakistan., Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Sayyeda Reza, Masood Afzal, and Fauziah Rabbani
Health seeking behaviour and health services utilization trends in national health survey of Pakistan: what needs to be done?, Babar T. Shaikh and Juanita Hatcher
Thirty years of Alma Ata pledges: is devolution in Pakistan an opportunity for rekindling primary health care?, Babar T. Shaikh, Muhammad Masood Kadir, and Gregory Pappas
Maternal characteristics in relation to income in a semi-rural community in Pakistan, A R. Siddiqui
Screening for emotional and behavioural problems amongst 5-11-year-old school children in Karachi, Pakistan, Ehsan Ullah Syed, Sajida Abdul Hussein, and Sadia Mahmud
Depression in the elderly: does family system play a role? a cross-sectional study, Ather M. Taqui, Ahmed Itrat, Waris Qidwai, and Zeeshan Qadri
Quality assessment of a private university dental hospital in Karachi: case study using European Foundation for quality management (EFQM) excellence model, Farhan Saeed Vakani
Submissions from 2006
Breast cancer risk factor knowledge among nurses in teaching hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional study, Faiza Ahmed, Sadia Mahmud, Juanita Hatcher, and Shaista M. Khan
A qualitative study on paucity of laws regulating private health care sector in Pakistan, Haseeb Ahmed
Prevalence and socio-demographic factors associated with tobacco smoking among adult males in rural Sindh, Pakistan, Sajid Ali, Nalini Sathiakumar, and Elizabeth Delzell
Residents' perceptions of work environment during their postgraduate medical training in Pakistan, B I. Avan, S A. Raza, S Khokhar, F Awan, N Sohail, S Rashid, and H Hamza
Knowledge and skills in community oriented medical education (COME)self-ratings of medical undergraduates in Karachi, Ayesha Aziz, Ambreen Kazi, Ashraf Jahangeer, and Zafar Fatmi
Understanding barriers to North-South collaborative research: contextual issues in a case study of chlorhexidine trial by AKU & UAB, Zia-Ullah Khan Dawar
Does spousal abuse during pregnancy affect the infant birth weight?, Mufiza Farid
Good governance and sustainability: a case study from Pakistan, Syed Muhammad Israr and Anwar Islam
Women in Pakistan have a greater burden of clinical cardiovascular risk factors than men, Tazeen H. Jafar
Prevalence of overweight and obesity and their association with hypertension and diabetes mellitus in an Indo-Asian population, Tazeen H. Jafar, Nish Chaturvedi, and Gregory Pappas
Acute health effects of the Tasman Spirit oil spill on residents of Karachi, Pakistan, Naveed Zafar Janjua, Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, Haq Nawaz, Sadia Zohra Farooqui, Urooj Bakht Khuwaja, Najam-ul-Hassan, Syed Nadim Jafri, Shahid Ali Lutfi, Muhammad Masood Kadir, and Nalini Sathiakumar
Estimates of intraclass correlation coefficient and design effect for surveys and cluster randomized trials on injection use in Pakistan and developing countries, Naveed Zafar Janjua, Mohammad Imran Khan, and John D. Clemens
Effects of low salt diet versus high salt diet on blood pressure: a randomized controlled crossover trial, Saleem Jessani
Social environment and depression among pregnant women in urban areas of Pakistan: importance of social relations., Ambreen Kazi, Zafar Fatmi, Juanita Hatcher, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Unaiza Niaz, and Gail A. Wasserman
Knowledge and attitudes about health research amongst a group of Pakistani medical students, Hassan Khan, Muhammad RizwanulHaq Khawaja, Abdul Waheed, Muhammad Ameen Rauf, and Zafar Fatmi
Knowledge of modifiable risk factors of heart disease among patients with acute myocardial infarction in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross sectional study, Muhammad S. Khan, Fahim H. Jafary, Tazeen H. Jafar, Azhar M. Faruqui, Syed I. Rasool, Juanita Hatcher, and Nish Chaturvedi
A case-control study of risk factors associated with Hepatitis C infection among pregnant women in hospitals of Karachi- Pakistan, Uzma Rahim Khan
Chewing of betel, areca and tobacco: perceptions and knowledge regarding their role in head and neck cancers in an urban squatter settlement in Pakistan, Muhammad RizwanulHaq Khawaja, Samia Mazahir, Atif Majeed, Farida Malik, Kanwal AliRaza Merchant, Maria Maqsood, Rabia Malik, Shehzad Ghaffar, and Zafar Fatmi
Estimating cost of illness of diabetes mellitus in out-patient clinic setting of Karachi, Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khowaja
Issues of gender equity: a case study of decentralized health care system of District Nawabshah, Sindh, Nawab Khan Mangrio
Socio-demographic correlates of betel, areca and smokeless tobacco use as a high risk behavior for head and neck cancers in a squatter settlement of Karachi, Pakistan, Samia Mazahir, Rabia Malik, Maria Maqsood, Kanwal AliRaza Merchant, Farida Malik, Atif Majeed, Zafar Fatmi, Muhammad Rizwanulhaq Khawaja, and Shehzad Ghaffar
Prevalence of and factors associated with intestinal parasites among children from 1 to 5 years of age in an urban slum of Karachi, Vikram Mehraj
Is there a shortage of female health workers in (MOPH) Paktya province Afganistan? : a descriptive case study design, Rahmatullah Nizamal
Geographic data on health inequities: understanding policy implications, Gregory Pappas
Validity of measures of pain and symptoms in HIV/AIDS infected households in resources poor settings: results from the Dominican Republic and Cambodia, Gregory Pappas, R Cameron Wolf, Guy Morineau, and Richard Harding
Background demographics and risk behaviors of injecting drug users in Karachi, Pakistan, Shehzad Parviz, Zafar Fatmi, Arshad Altaf, Joseph B. McCormick, S. Fischer-Hoch, Mohammad Rahbar, and Stephen Luby
Impact of special GP training on adherence to antihypertensive medication : a cluster randomized controlled trial, Nudrat Noor Qureshi
Living with globalization: a menace or a chance?, Fauziah Rabbani, Babar T Shaikh, and Sarah Wamala
Knowledge about and management of sexually transmitted infections by general practioners of Karachi, Anwar Rafay
Diabetes knowledge, beliefs and practices among people with diabetes attending a university hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, G Rafique, S I. Azam, and F White
Identifying needs and barriers to diabetes education in patients with diabetes, Ghazala Rafique and Furqan Shaikh
Male involvement in Spacing births, Afghanistan, Mohammad Hafiz Rasooly
Distribution and circumstances of injuries in squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan., Narjis Rizvi, Stephen Luby, Iqbal Azam Syed, and Fauziah Rabbani
Prevalence and risk factors of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among prisoners in Kabul central prison (Puli Charkhi), Afghanistan, Khwaja Mir Islam Saeed
Psycho-social consequences of secondary infertility in Karachi., Neelofar Sami and Tazeen Saeed Ali
Sleep deprivation and its associated factors among general ward patients at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Majid Shafiq, Farah F. Salahuddin, Maham Siddiqi, Zaman Shah, Rehmat Ali, Rizwan A. Siwani, Ayesha Saleem, Kashif Shakoor Shaikh, and Ali Khan Khuwaja
Prevalence and determinants of asthma in adult male leather tannery workers in Karachi, Pakistan: A cross sectional study, Khurram Shahzad, Saeed Akhtar, and Sadia Mahmud
Health workers for change: a tool for promoting behaviour change among health providers., Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Fauziah Rabbani, and M. Rahim
Assessing knowledge, exploring needs: a reproductive health survey of adolescents and young adults in Pakistan, Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Syed Tariq Rahim
Health care and public health in South Asia, B T. Shaikh, M M. Kadir, and J Hatcher
Pharmaceutical research: paradox, challenge or dilemma?, Abdul Latif Sheikh
Typhoid fever in children: some epidemiological considerations from Karachi, Pakistan., Fahad Javaid Siddiqui Javaid Siddiqui, Fauziah Rabbani, Rumina Hasan, Shaikh Qamaruddin Nizami, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Migration, medical education, and health care: A view from Pakistan, Jamsheer J. Talati and Gregory Pappas
Knowledge, attitude and practices of reproductive age females about tetanus toxoid vaccine: a pilot study, Amna Zeb, Syed Ali Hyder Zaidi, and Imtiaz Jehan
Submissions from 2005
Recommendations to strengthen the role of lady health workers in the national program for family planning and primary health care in Pakistan: the health workers perspective, Habib Ahmed Afsar and Muhammad Younus
Space-time clustering of childhood leukaemia cases in Karachi, Pakistan, Saeed Akhtar, Tim E. Carpenter, Fouzia Ajmal, Shafquat Rozi, and Salman Adil
Evaluation of an off campus primary care facility of a private university hospital at Karachi, Muhammad Mazhar Alam
Residents' perceptions of communication skills in postgraduate medical training programs of Pakistan, B I. Avan, S A. Raza, and H R. Afridi
Assessing the effects of training on knowledge and skills of health personnel: a case study from the family health project in Sindh, Pakistan, Syed Farid-ul-Hasnain, Syed Muhammad Israr, and Saleem Jessani
Maternal and newborn care: Practices and beliefs of traditional birth attendants in Sindh, Pakistan, Z Fatmi, A Z. Gulzar, and A Kazi
Stalling HIV through social marketing: prospects in Pakistan, Sara Husain and Babar T. Shaikh
Project mentality: a threat to effective implementation and sustainability of donor funded projects in Pakistan, Syed Muhammad Israr
Heart disease epidemic in Pakistan: women and men at equal risk, Tazeen H. Jafar, Fahim H. Jafary, Saleem Jessani, and Nish Chaturvedi
Injection use in two districts of Pakistan: implications for disease prevention, Naveed Zafar Janjua, Saeed Akhtar, and Yvan J F Hutin
Health and social impacts of improved stoves on rural women: a pilot intervention in Sindh, Pakistan, Waqar A. Khushk, Zafar Fatmi, F White, and Muhammad Masood Kadir
Long-term improvement in unsafe injection practices following community intervention, Stephen Luby, Fawzia Hoodbhoy, Aziz Jan, Aly Shah, and Yvan Hutin
Directions for national data policy for antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings: a focus on durable viral suppression, Gregory Pappas, John-Manuel Andriote, and Philip Mwalali
Exploring ethical considerations for the use of biological and physiological markers in population-based surveys in less developed countries, Gregory Pappas and Adnan A. Hyder
Medical education and training: responding to community needs., Fauziah Rabbani, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Qamar Mahmood, Kausar S. Khan Ms, Syed Muhammad Israr, and Yousuf Memon
Randomized controlled trial of standard versus double dose cotrimoxazole for childhood pneumonia in Pakistan, Zeba A. Rasmussen, Abdul Bari, Shamim Qazi, Gul Rehman, Iqbal Azam, SherBaz Khan, Farida Aziz, Sadia Rafi, Mehr Taj Roghani, and Imran Iqbal
Prevalence and factors associated with current smoking among high school adolescents in Karachi, Pakistan, Shafquat Rozi, Saeed Akhtar, Sajid Ali, and Javaid Khan
The quest for small family size among Pakistani women--is voluntary termination of pregnancy a matter of choice or necessity?, Sarah Saleem and Fariyal F. Fikree
Quality of health care: an absolute necessity for patient satisfaction, Babar T. Shaikh
Medical education: let's change the emphases, Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Fauziah Rabbani
Health management information system: a tool to gauge patient satisfaction and quality of care., Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Fauziah Rabbani
Health seeking behaviour and health service utilization in Pakistan: challenging the policy makers, Babar T. Shaikh and Juanita Hatcher
Hospital based study of risk factors for preeclampsia in nulliporous and porous women : a matched case control study, Uzma Shamsi
Nosocomial outbreak of hepatitis E infection in Pakistan with possible parenteral transmission, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Rashid Jooma, and Raymond A Jr Smego
Does malaria during pregnancy affect the newborn?, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Asma Zakaria, Saima Naheed Waqar, Samiah Zafar, Ali Saeed Wahla, Sarah Kulsoom Zaidi, Arif R. Sarwari, Rahat N. Qureshi, and Amna Rehana Siddiqui
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Breast cancer knowledge and associated factors among female registered nurses working in teaching hospitals, Faiza Ahmed
Intra-household clustering of hepatitis C virus infection in Karachi, Pakistan, Saeed Akhtar and Tariq Moatter
Hepatitis C virus infection in asymptomatic male volunteer blood donors in Karachi, Pakistan, S Akhtar, M Younus, S Adil, S H. Jafri, and F Hassan
Prevalence and factors associated with practice of modern contraceptive methods among currently married women in District Naushahro Feroze, S Ali, S Rozi, and M A. Mahmood
Determinants of therapeutic injection overuse among communities in Sindh, Pakistan., Arshad Altaf, Zafar Fatmi, Agha Ajmal, Tanweer Hussain, Henna Qahir, and Mubina Agboatwalla
HIV risk behavior and practices among heroin addicts in Lahore, Pakistan, Faran Emmanuel, Saeed Akhtar, Arrastus Attarad, and Cyril Kamran
The onset and duration of benefit from counselling by minimally trained counsellors on anxiety and depression in women, A Gul and B S. Ali
Elevated blood lead levels among children living in a fishing community, Karachi, Pakistan, Siroos Hozhabri, Franklin White, Mohammad Hossein Rahbar, Mubina Agboatwalla, and Stephen Luby
Resource allocation and the enhanced National Aids Control Programme : decision maker's perspectives, Sara Husain
Risk factors for non-fatal myocardial infarction in young South Asian adults, J Ismail, T H. Jafar, F H. Jafary, F White, A M. Faruqui, and N Chaturvedi
Ethnic differences and determinants of diabetes and central obesity among South Asians of Pakistan, T H. Jafar, A S. Levey, F M. White, A Gul, S Jessani, A Q. Khan, F H. Jafary, C H. Schmid, and N Chaturvedi
Knowledge and practices of barbers about hepatitis B and C transmission in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, N Z. Janjua and M A M Nizamy
Knowledge of modifiable risk factors of heart disease among patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction in a tertiary care hospital Karachi, Pakistan : a cross sectional study, Muhammad Saleem Khan
Prevalence and factors associated with anxiety and depression among family practitioners in Karachi, Pakistan, A K. Khuwaja, R Qureshi, and S I. Azam
Macrovascular complications and their associated factors among persons with type 2 diabetes in Karachi, Pakistan--a multi-center study, A K. Khuwaja, G Rafique, F White, and S I. Azam
Smoking among adult males in an urban community of Karachi, Pakistan, Ali Khan Khuwaja and Muhammad Masood Kadir
Comparison of job satisfaction and stress among male and female doctors in teaching hospitals of Karachi., Ali Khan Khuwaja, Riaz Qureshi, Marie Andrades, Zafar Fatmi, and Nadya Khan Khuwaja
Spontaneous recovery from depression in women: a qualitative study of vulnerabilities, strengths and resources, S Naeem, Badar Sabir Ali, A Iqbal, S Mubeen, and A Gul
Rabies deaths in Pakistan: results of ineffective post-exposure treatment, Shehzad Parviz, Rashid Chotani, Joseph McCormick, Sue Fisher-Hoch, and Stephen Luby
Perceptions of health managers on the current facility based health management information system, Muhammad Suleman Qazi
A matched case-control study of risk factors for neonatal tetanus in Karachi, Pakistan, S A. Raza, S Akhtar, B I. Avan, H Hamza, and M H. Rahbar
Patient welfare systems in private tertiary-care hospitals in Karachi, Syed Saif-Ur Rehman