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Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic disease transmitted from person to person through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito. The transmission of malaria can be determined by climatic and host factors. The objective of this paper is to trace the host factors of malaria incidence and also to determine the relationship between climatic factors and malaria incidence in Lakhimpur district of Assam. In order to examine the association between monthly malaria incidence rates and climatic variables, Pearson correlation analysis has been used. Also, Chi-square test for independence of attributes is performed to trace the host factors of malaria incidence. A uctuating trend was observed for reported malaria cases during the years 2000-2011. Both positive and negative correlation have occurred between climatic variable and MIR. Also, we have observed that male is more affected by malaria incidence than female. Among the age groups, the age group 15-39 years was found most affected age group than other age groups. After Chi-square test for independence of attributes we reveal that malaria depends on sex and age. SUMMARY: From our study, we suggest that even if the climatic factors play a primary role for transmission of malaria, sex and age are other important risk factors in characterizing malaria incidence in the district.

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Background: COVID-19 is caused by coronavirus, first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019, spread rapidly across international borders, and was declared pandemic on March 11, 2020. Occupation hazards such as close patient contact, suboptimal hand washing, inadequate use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and breach in infection control measures pose higher risk to health care workers (HCWs). Aims and Objectives: The objectives of the study are as follows: (1) To assess knowledge, beliefs, and practices of HCWs of a tertiary care hospital in Arunachal Pradesh regarding COVID appropriate behavior. (2) To create awareness and thereby prevent the spread of infections. Materials and Methods: A stratified sampling technique was applied to identify the study participants. A pre-tested and semi-structured questionnaire was administered to assess their knowledge, beliefs, and practices toward COVID-19. All departments (study units) were enlisted, all the HCWs were stratified according to their profession, for example, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technician, and other HCWs. From each stratum, HCWs were randomly selected using simple random sampling and interviewed. Results: We found, 96.18% wore mask properly, 74.81% maintained physical distancing, and 55.34% greeted without physical contact while only 24.05% maintained respiratory hygiene. Mask was observed to be the most commonly known preventive measure (85.5%), followed by hand hygiene (69.47%), physical distancing (56.49%), and PPE kits (17.56%). It was observed that 53.44% of HCWs relied on government source of information. Conclusion: Most of the HCWs were practicing COVID appropriate behavior and the vaccination coverage was high among the HCWs (up to 2nd dose).

Tobacco and alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet and insufcient physical exercise along with other associated factors are considered to be the main causes of the four most common NCDs – cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic 1 respiratory diseases and diabetes. Rapid urbanization and industrialization has led to a global socioeconomic transition and thus promoted health risk behavior resulting in cardio 2 vascular diseases and events.

Background: Jaundice is a term use for the condition in which yellow colouration of the skin and the sclera occurs and is caused by a raised level of bilirubin. There are a number of herbal medicines or self-remedy medications widely in use among the people especially in the rural areas and suburbs. Various study showed that people have also switched over to modern methods of treatment. The purpose of the study is to assess the awareness of people towards Jaundice and the methods of treatment they preferred and practiced.Methods: The study was a community based cross-sectional study which was conducted amongst the people of an urban slum of Jorhat district of Assam, over a period of three months. A sample of 156 study participants of age group (21-60) was taken. Data were collected using a pre-designed and pre-tested proforma. MS excel and SPSS version-23were used to analyze the data.Results: Majority (88.4%) of the study participants were aware of Jaundice while amongst them (89.6%) respondents were in the age group of (21-30) years. (56.5%) study subjects were aware of traditional methods of treatment whereas only (5.1%) were aware of modern methods. However (36.9%) were aware of both traditional and modern methods. (74.6%) preferred as well as practiced traditional methods of treatment .Majority of respondents 56 (54.4%) had influence of society for practicing traditional methods for treatment of Jaundice followed by belief 32 (31.1%).Conclusions: Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and Information Education Communication (IEC) activities regarding Jaundice should be promoted.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are transmitted from one person to another through sexual contact, caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites. STDs are becoming a major public health problem in India. The objective of this paper is to determine the prevalence of awareness of STD among the youth age group of 15-24 years old residing in the urban slum of Jorhat town. The study shows that in the age group 15-19 years, 62% individuals were not aware about STDs while about 52% were not aware in the age group 20-24 years. The present study reveals that only about 61% individuals opined that STDs are transmissible and only 42% say that STD is preventable. It is concluded from the study that majority of the individuals in the study group are unaware about STD's.