Introduction: Considerable degree of psychological morbidity has been reported among medical students ranging from stress, interpersonal problems and suicidal ideation to psychiatric disorders. The objective of this study was to determine the level of stress, anxiety and depression among medical undergraduate students of Government Medical College Srinagar using DASS-21 scale. Material and methods:A cross-sectional study including undergraduate medical students was conducted after approval from instituitional ethical committee. Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) having 21 statements to assess the level of stress, anxiety and depression among participants was used. As there were no earlier estimates of prevalence of stress among medical students in Kashmir, so prevalence of 50% was assumed. With 95% confidence limits and 5 % non-response rate, sample size of 403 was calculated. After obtaining informed consent, 400 students were included in the study. The data was entered into Microsoft Excel and descriptive statistics were obtained. results: Most of the students (55%) who participated in the study were females. About 67.5% were in the age-group of 17-19 years, mostly belonging to rural areas(77.5%). Students from all academic years participated with majority from 1 st and 2 nd years. Only 2.5% students had a single parent or were orphans with majority (75%) satisfied with their social life. About 25% were not satisfied with their academic performance. Prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress was found to be 40%,50% and 37.5% respectively in medical students. Conclusion:A substantial proportion of medical students are suffering from stress, anxiety and depression revealing their mental health issues which require urgent attention.

Background: Cancer is one of the signicant causes of mortality worldwide. Cancer has been found to increase with acquisition of unhealthy dietary habits, smoking, sedentary life style etc. Objective: (1) To determine the number of cancer deaths in Mattan Block, Anantnag in the ve year period of 2015 -2020. (2)To nd out the prevalence of risk factors of cancer among the studied cases Materials and Methods:It was a descriptive analysis of the cancer related deaths in Mattan area conducted from 2015 to 2020. Whenever a cancer death occurred, a team of health inspector and an ASHAworker went to the family of the deceased where upon socio-demographic details and the details about risk factors were collected. The data was entered and analysed by using Microsoft Word 2010. Results: A total of 197 deaths were recorded. Most of the deaths were in the age group of above 60 years (40%) with male preponderance (65%). Maximum proportion of deaths was due to Gastrointestinal cancers (42%) followed by respiratory cancers (25.4%). About 56% of participants consumed dried vegetables at least twice a week. Salt tea was consumed 3-4 times a day by 35% of subjects, 45.2% of the subjects ate spicy food. About 53% of subjects were smokers. Conclusion: In this study we found that there's high intake of salt tea, dried vegetables and spicy foods among family members of the deceased persons. Smoking is also a menace in the area. Awareness generation among the people in the area needs to be created about the healthy food and life style

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Global ageing is one of the biggest challenges the world is facing currently. The ageing population is both Arthritis (13.4%), COPD and bronchial asthma (11%). The data will enhance understanding the patterns of health problems among elderly population and will contribute to the application of appropriate intervention strategies.