Background: Antenatal care is an important component of reproductive and child health but has not been utilized to the full extent in India. The study is aimed to assess the utilization of antenatal health care services by mothers and its impact on birth weight of their newborn.Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted in a rural area of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. A total of 198 women of study area who have delivered between 1st July 2013 to 30thJune 2014 (12 months period) were interviewed by pre-designed and semi-structured questionnaire by door to door approach.Results: Present study showed that 100% of mothers registered their pregnancy in any health facility and 56.6% were registered in 2nd trimester. Only 32.8% mothers had received four or more antenatal visits. Only 26.26% mothers had utilized full antenatal care (minimum four antenatal visits, minimum one TT and minimum 100 IFA tablet taken) during pregnancy. The prevalence of low birth weight was 12.6%. Proportion of LBW babies was more (15.9%) in mothers who had not availed of full antenatal care. This difference was statistically significantly (P<0.05).Conclusions: The important factors related to low utilization of Antenatal services were lower socioeconomic status, lower literacy of mothers, working mothers, parity and nuclear family. The findings of this study may be utilized by the health managers and health care providers to address the problem of low ANC coverage.

Animal bites in humans are an important public health problem. Most of these bites are dog bites. Dog bites in humans are a complex problem embracing public health and animal welfare, both in developed and developing nations. In order to estimate the magnitude of the problem and to understand the epidemiological characteristics of dog bite victims registered in Anti Rabies Clinic of Dr. S.N. medical college, Jodhpur regarding their age, sex, number of registered dog bite victims per month and year along the studied period (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) and also to sniff out any seasonal variation in dog bite attacks. The present study was carried out by detailed examination of the records of animal bite patients who had attended the Anti Rabies Clinic of M. G. Hospital attached to Dr S. N. Medical College, Jodhpur for medical advice and post exposure immunization against rabies during last seven year period from January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2015. The data compiled in Microsoft excel 2010 were further analysed using SPSS version 21. The total number of registered animal bite victims per 7 years of the study was equal to 38561, distributed as (29,844 males and 8714 females), with male to female ratio equal to 3.5:1. The studied epidemiological characteristics showed that highest total number of registered dog bite victims during the year (2012). The persistence of dog bite as public health problem in Jodhpur district.

Background: For proper disposal of biomedical waste, introduction of laws is only not sufficient but awareness among health care personnel and effective enforcement of existing BMWguidelines have primary importance. Lack of knowledge and practice on Bio-medical Waste Management has led to the hospitals becoming hub for spreading illness. Objective: To assess knowledge and practice about biomedical waste management and associated factors among health care personnel in public hospital. Material & Method: A hospital based cross sectional study was conducted in the January to March, 2019. Study participants included doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and ward boys working in a public hospital who deal with biomedical waste and were selected randomly to make the sample size of 150. Apretested semi-structured questionnaire was used. Result: Out of 150 participants, 75.3% and 54.7% Health Care Personnel have adequate knowledge and practice score respectively. Adequate knowledge was significantly associated with age, occupation, experience and previous training while adequate practice was significant associated with occupation and adequate knowledge. Conclusion: Study highlighted the need of a comprehensive training for all the categories of health care personnel.

Worldwide steady increase in caesarean section (CS) rate during the last decades has been the cause of alarm and needs an in depth study. Caesarean section is major surgery and increases the likelihood of many short and longer-term adverse effects in mothers and babies. The caesarean epidemic is a reason for immediate concern and deserves serious international attention. There are to be needs to make policy on caesarean section for reversing this trend that can be truly called as "Caesarean section: an epidemic”.

Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a double-stranded circular DNA virus and member of the Hepadnaviridae family of viruses. Methods: This cross sectional study was done on 250 nursing staff. There were total 263 nursing staff in this hospital out of which 250 enrolled voluntarily to participate in this study. The objective, nature and benefits of this study were explained and informed & written consent was taken from all participants. All nursing staff were interviewed structured self-completed quaternaries. Results: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an occupational health hazard preventable by vaccination. 78% of nursing staff know that Hep B is a vaccine preventable. 42% of participants knew that getting vaccinated offers a protection from infection for 15 years.  16% of nursing staff are aware that a titre value of more than 10 ml U/ml is needed for protection from Hepatitis B infection. 84% of nursing staff are willing to motivate others and encourage them to get vaccinated against Hepatitis B. Conclusion: This study highlighted the need to have nursing staff educated regarding significance of immunization against vaccine preventable disease. Keywords- Hepatitis, Immunization, Liver,