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Introduction: Anemia is a most common public health problem affecting around 1.9 billion population of the world. It is a severe public health problem in India. Medical students are vulnerable to develop anemia due to irregular eating habits due to hectic study schedule. Anemia among this age group has significant health consequences resulting in poor cognition, decreased attention span and memory affecting the performance, depressed immunity, repeated infections, increased fatigue, and shortness of breath, dizziness, blurred vision, low endurance and irregular menstruation. Material and Methods: This study is conducted among 100 students of both gender taking admission in MBBS first year at MAMC, Agroha. Hemoglobin values and other relevant details of the students were taken from academic section submitted at time of admission. World Health Organization criteria were taken to determine the severity of anemia. Modified B.G. Prasad scale was used to assess the socioeconomic status of the family. Data was first entered into MS excel sheet and then was exported to SPSS version 20.0 for appropriate analysis. Results: Prevalence of anemia came out to be 54% among study subjects. Difference between the mean levels of hemoglobin across the genders came out be statistically significant (P=<0.001). Conclusion: Prevalence of anemia is high among the study subjects with more prevalence among females study subjects. There is a need to accelerate efforts for achieving control of anemia by strengthening multi-sectoral partnership involving government departments, academic institutions, bilateral agencies and food industry.

Introduction: Low back pain has a profound impact both directly and indirectly on individuals. It is estimated that 60% to 80% of any population will experience low back pain at some point in their lives. There are number of causes for low back pain and Sciatica is one of them. Study aimed to assess the efficacy of Acupuncture for the management of Sciatica pain. Material and Methods: This study was conducted among 200 patients attending the Outdoor Patient department at Dr D.N. Kotnis Health and Education Center. With each subject a prior informed and written consent was obtained. A predesigned and pretested proforma was used to collect the socio demographic profile. Severity of Pain was measured with the help of Likert Scale whereas the reading on Likert scale was taken at the time of first visit and last visit of patients for comparison of pain. Data was first entered into MS excel sheet and then was exported to SPSS version 20.0 for appropriate analysis. Results: Wilcoxon signed rank test was applied to determine the efficacy of the treatment on reducing the pain, further it was observed that the effect of the treatment was statistically significant (p<0.001) Conclusion: Acupuncture provides effective relief from Sciatica pain. However initiation of treatment at young age provides quick response and healing by reducing suffering of sciatica pain.

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National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has created a cadre of trained female community health activists called Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) to strengthen the health care system and to mobilize community towards increased utilization of existing health services. The contribution of the Accredited Social Health ActivistASHA) to the achievement of the country’s targets for new-born & child health services is critical. The present study was planned with objective to assess & compare the level of knowledge of ASHA workers regarding child health services working in rural and urban areas of a block of Haryana. The present cross-sectional, community-based study was conducted in block Barwala, district Hisar of Haryana. The assessment of knowledge of ASHA workers was done on the basis of scoring. Appropriate statistical tests like percentages and chi-square (χ2) test were applied. Regarding child health services majority of ASHA workers had good knowledge, assessed by score gained by them and none of them was having poor knowledge about child health services. However, in rural area score gained was better than urban area & the observed difference was found to be statistically significant. Majority of ASHA workers either working in rural or urban areas, were having inadequate knowledge about identification of danger signs during diarrhoea & acute respiratory infection in a child and danger signs of new born. They had adequate knowledge regarding cord stump care; breast Feeding practices; routine Immunization; Vitamin A supplement and home based post natal care (HBPNC) visits. Inadequate knowledge of ASHA workers regarding new born care should be taken into consideration. Supportive supervision should be done in their working area.