Building Capacity in the Sikh Asian Indian Community to Lead Participatory Oral Health Projects

This chapter examines the complex dynamics underlying Indian immigrants' decision to continue to stay in the United States or to counter migrate back to India. In a reversal of fortunes, the specific set of conditions that once triggered a massive inflow of economic migrants from India to the US has been causing a counter migration to India. Based on a review of literature and an exploratory study involving focus groups, the authors identify some of the major migration-/counter migration-related factors. Then, employing a survey, the relative importance of each of these factors is gauged for migrant individuals associated with different professions.

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Prevalence of Periodontal Diseases in India

Journal of Oral Health and Community Dentistry ◽

10.5005/johcd-4-spl-7 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 4 (Spl) ◽

pp. 7-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

CM Marya ◽

Vimal Kumar ◽

Manish Khatri ◽

Vipin Agarwal ◽

Guljot Singh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Oral Health ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Periodontal Diseases ◽

Local Level ◽

Data Bank ◽

Oral Diseases ◽

Health Care Planning ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Indian Community ◽

Key Factor

ABSTRACT Periodontal diseases, dental caries, malocclusion and oral cancer are among the most prevalent dental diseases affecting people worldwide as well as in Indian community. There is no national oral health data bank in India which reflects the prevalence of different oral diseases and risk factors responsible for them. No national oral health survey has been conducted in the country till date. Prevalence of disease is the key factor for effective and sound oral health care planning. Some cross sectional surveys has been conducted in various regions of the country at local level but those observations cannot be generalized for the whole community because of the great diversity in composition of Indian populations e.g. literacy rate in Kerala is more than 90% and in Bihar it is about 40%. Males are more literate than females. 70% of the population in India continues to live in rural areas. Different cross sectional surveys or studies showing prevalence of periodontal diseases mainly in the last twenty years have been collected from different sources and compiled in this article to give a comprehensive outlook of the present status and scenario of periodontal diseases in different population of Indian community.

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Postcolonial Patriarchal Nativism, Domestic Violence and Transnational Feminist Research in Contemporary Uganda

Feminist Review ◽

10.1177/0141778918818835 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 121 (1) ◽

pp. 37-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anneeth Kaur Hundle

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Middle Class ◽

Asian Indian ◽

Global South ◽

Feminist Research ◽

Research Approach ◽

Migrant Woman ◽

Indian Community ◽

High Profile

This article examines the development of a multidimensional, transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda in relation to a high-profile case of domestic violence and femicide of a middle-class, upper-caste Indian migrant woman in Kampala in 1998. It explores indigenous Ugandan public and Ugandan Asian/Indian community interpretations and the dynamics of cross-racial feminist mobilisation and protest that emerged in response to the Joshi-Sharma domestic violence case. In doing so, it advocates for a transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda and the Global South that works against the grain of nationalist and nativist biases in existing feminist scholarly trends. This approach lays bare power inequalities and internal tensions within and across racialised African and Asian communities, and thus avoids the romanticisation of cross-racial feminist African-Asian solidarities.

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