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Background: Injuries and violence are among the most prominent public health problems in the world. Objective was to study the epidemiological profile of injuries in urban and urban slum areas of Rajkot city, India.Methods: A community based study was conducted in Rajkot city with sample size of 540 households. Total 30 clusters (society) were selected from 805 notified societies including 20 clusters from urban areas and 10 clusters from urban slum areas of Rajkot city. From identified cluster, 18 households were selected to achieve targeted sample size 540. All injuries reported among all household members in the last 12 months were included in the study. A total of 2,367 persons of all ages were interviewed.Results: The prevalence of injury was 14% among 2,367 study participants. Almost all injuries (99.1%) were unintentional in nature. The leading causes of injures were falls (49.2%) and road traffic accidents (RTAs) (35.7%). Significant numbers of injuries were reported among males (p<0.01). The males reported RTAs (46.9%) and females reported falls (64.2%) as a common type of injury (p<0.01). Lower limb (70.1%) was the most commonly affected body part and road (38.4%) was the most common place of injury occurrence. Average money spent by injured person was Rs. 7,000. Only 11.3 % study participants had health insurance.Conclusions: Injury prevention priorities should be focused on the leading causes such as falls and RTAs to develop specific preventive strategies.
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Introduction Poor feeding practices are a major threat to social and economic development. Not breastfeeding significantly increases risk for a large number of acute and chronic diseases including lower respiratory infection, ear infections, bacteraemia, bacterial meningitis, urinary tract infection, and necrotizing enterocolitis. This study will provide evidence about factors affecting exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices and will highlight level of problem in community Objective: To find out various factors affecting Exclusive Breast Feeding (EBF) & complementary feeding practices among the mothers of Udaipur city Method: A total of 210 mothers were interviewed who were randomly selected from the outpatient department over a period of 6 months in this cross sectional study. An oral consent was taken from the participating mothers Results: Out of total, 69.05% mothers gave prelacteal feeds to their babies. 54.76% of mothers had initiated breast feeding within 1-4 hour of birth. Only 33.81% babies were given exclusive breast feeding for six months. 17.14%, 13.81% and 22.38% mothers were counselled about breastfeeding by local health worker, doctor and relatives respectively, while 46.67% were not counselled at all Conclusion: Prelacteal feeds was given in nearly two third of babies. Only one third mothers gave colostrum to their babies.Exclusive breastfeeding was received by only one third babies. Less than 10% of babies were breastfed for 2 years. The association was statistically significant between exclusive breastfeeding and factors like place of delivery, numbers of Antenatal visits, education and occupation of mother