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Department of
Epidemiology
Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control
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The shifting paradigm of disease burden from communicable to Non-communicable disease has
brought in the need to understand and implement integrated measures for management of NCDs in the
Indian region. NCDs include wide ranging conditions like cardiovascular disease, Stroke, Diabetes;
Mental and Neurological disorders Cancer, Respiratory diseases, injuries and others. A wide range
of behaviors like tobacco and alcohol use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and increasing
stress along with physiological risk factors like hypertension, raised levels of blood sugar,
cholesterol have been identified as major underlying determinants of NCDs.
The department worked in collaboration with census department of Government of Karnataka, The
Registrar General of India's Sample Registration system and centre for Global health research to
strengthen mortality patterns due to NCDs with verbal autopsy methods.
Several research projects with focus on risk factors (tobacco, alcohol, stress, physical
inactivity, unhealthy diet, along with large number of mental health behaviours) have been
completed in the department. The findings have resulted in developing intervention programmes and
follow-up studies at different levels.
In 2005, the department examined the close association of social determinants with health
behaviors and health conditions based on secondary sources of data for the city of Bangalore in a
project supported by World Health Organization, Kobe, Japan. The findings of the study have
resulted in development of Bangalore healthy urbanization project in 2007.
The department has made efforts to establish a NCD working group in Bangalore in collaboration
with Government departments, community medicine departments of medical colleges and local NGOs.
Human resource development programmes are conducted to develop the necessary manpower.
During 2005 and 2007, Dr. Gururaj supported the NCD division of World Health Organization,
South-East Asia Regional office, New Delhi and World Health Organization, Kobe, Japan to develop
evidence based programmes in the region. Ten modules for capacity strengthening of policy makers
and programme managers for integrated prevention and control of NCDs is under development by WHO
along with experts in the region. Inputs are also provided for the "WHO programme on prevention
of NCDs – developing country frameworks for action" in 2007.
PUBLICATIONS in other areas
- Ravikumar and Gururaj G: Country perspective regarding mosquito
borne disorder in Karnataka state, India. Dengue Bulletin, 29: 157-164, 2005.
- Gururaj G, Rajanna MS, Shivaram C. Feeding Practices of
rural Infants - A cross sectional study. Indian Journal of Public Health, 34 (2), 1990, 124.
- Gururaj G, Rajanna MS, Shivaram C. Nutritional status of
rural Infants - A cross sectional study. Karnataka Journal of Community Health, 1989, 5-
- Gururaj G, Rajanna MS, Shivaram C. Pattern and
Determinants of Gastroenteritis among infants in a rural community. Karnataka Journal of
Community Health, 4(2), 1987, 69-75.
- Mohammad AS, Pruthvish S, Gururaj G, Kekre MM.
Immunization - Reaching the unreached. Indian Practitioner, 54, 12, 1986, 1031-1035.
- Gururaj G. Epidemiological Applications in
Investigation of Auditory Neuropathy - Challenges and Opportunities. In: Auditory Neuropathy-
Compilation of Seminar papers. National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, 2004,
147-54.
- Gururaj G, Girish N and Suryanarayana. Training Manual
for Verbal Autopsy in Karnataka (Kannada version). Directorate of Census Operations, Karnataka,
2003.
- Integrated rural sanitation and water supply project - Baseline
survey report - A Government of Karnataka and DANDIA project): Published by International union
for Health Education, South East Asia Regional Bureau, Bangalore, 1992.
- Benjamin V, Gururaj G and Tekur SP: Participatory study
of Community Health and Development programme of Reaching the unreached: Government of Tamil Nadu
(Oxfam Project), 1992.
- Gururaj G, Kevin D and Rajendra S: Challenges of the
disabled in the community. An evaluation report of association for working of the handicapped,
ActionAid, India, April, 1999.
- Shivashankar N, Gururaj G. Auditory behaviour profile in
children with scholastic backward-ness. Indian journal of Otolaryngology and head and neck
surgery, 2(2), 1993, 107-109.
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