Background: Road traffic injury (RTI) is emerging as a huge public health problem throughout the world. The problem is magnified manifold as it mainly affects people in productive age-group causing significant mortality and disability. Very few studies have been done in India to assess disability following RTI though it has attained astronomic proportions. This study was undertaken to know the proportion of disability as an outcome amongst patients admitted for road traffic injuries in a tertiary care centre of Lucknow, India and to know the determinants of mortality and disability following Road Traffic Injuries amongst these patients.Methods: A follow-up study was conducted on 267 patients of RTI admitted at Trauma Centre of King George’s Medical University UP (tertiary care centre), Lucknow, India from November 2012 to June 2013. Systemic random sampling was used to select the patients. Disability was assessed using ten points modified Barthel index. Data analysis was done using SPSS 17.0 software.Results: Mortality and disability were seen in 13.1 percent and 16.36 percent of the patients. Residence locale, road user type, time at first aid and admission, and head injury were significantly associated with mortality while extremes of age, residence locale and lower limb injury were significantly associated with disability. The level of significance was set at p value of 0.05.Conclusions: RTI poses a huge burden on healthcare delivery system and society in the form of mortality and disability. Attempts pertaining various sectors should be made to reduce the incidence of RTI and ensuing disability.

Background: Discrimination and gender gaps have been observed even in early years of life. Although overall sex ratio in India has improved from 933 to 940 in the last decade, it declined from 927 to 914 in children aged less than five. Girls, less than five years, show steadily high mortality/morbidity compared to boys. This study was conducted to find the gender inequality in health seeking behaviour (HSB) among mothers of under five children. Methods: This community based cross sectional study was conducted in rural area of Lucknow, between September 2014 to August 2015. A total of 221 households having 376 under-five children were selected by multistage sampling technique from rural area of Lucknow. Mothers were interviewed about health seeking behavior for their ill child. Data were entered and analyzed using SPSS v21. Results: About 95% of the male child and 86.4% of the female child sought treatment. Of the total females that were treated, 67.3% were taken to a health facility/provider while the rest got treated at-home against 76.4% males that got treatment outside home. Conclusions: Gender discrimination do exist in the rural area at each step of seeking health-care for girl child. Adequate measures should be taken to improve their health status and consequently sex ratio as early as possible.

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Yttrium (Y) doped and pure Titanium Di-oxide (TiO2) thin films were prepared by using spin coater. The coater was set up in laboratory with low cost investment. The films were calcined at 450 °C for 1 hour. For characterization, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis (EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) were carried out. LCR Bridge - GW Instek LCR-821 was used for gas sensing applications. XPS showed that the change of electronic structure due to Y doping. SEM and AFM analysis were carried out to determine the surface morphology of the films. Yttrium (Y) decreased the crystallite size of the films and increased the surface roughness and porosity value, which was very good for many sensing applications. Gas sensing property of the deposited films were improved by the incorporation of yttrium impurities and the sensing property improved almost two times than pure TiO2 thin film. Different researches have been done their research related to this topic but no one researchers provide a precise explanation of their results, authors of this research have tried to do that. Moreover the films were prepared by a simple spin coater to reduce the production cost also.