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  1. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)–Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Stigma Scale for India (ISSSI): A Protocol for Scale Development

    Article • Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  2. Sickle cell disease in Indian tribal population: Findings of a multi-centre Indian SCD registry

    Article • Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases, July 2024, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  3. Air Quality Monitoring Using Low-Cost Sensors in Urban Areas of Jodhpur, Rajasthan

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2024, MDPI AG

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  4. Strengthening Health System and Community Mobilization for Sickle Cell Disease Screening and Management among Tribal Populations in India: An Interventional Study

    Article • Hemoglobin, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  5. Clinical Features in Paediatric Sickle Cell Anaemia Cases from Rajasthan, India: A Case Series

    Article • Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  6. PREVALENCE OF TYPE 2 DIABETES AMONG TRIBAL POPULATION OF INDIA: A MULTI-CENTRIC CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

    Article • Journal of the National Medical Association, January 2024, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  7. Stigma of sickle cell disease among Indian tribal population: A multi-centric qualitative study

    Article • Journal of the National Medical Association, October 2023, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  8. Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, Control and Risk Factors in Tribal Population of India: a Multi-Centric Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  9. Knowledge and perception related to sickle cell disease among tribal community, India: A mixed-method study

    Article • Journal of the National Medical Association, July 2023, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  10. Indian sickle cell disease registry for surveillance and patient management: Development and implementation

    Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, June 2023, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  11. Prevalence of Hypertension in Indian Tribal Population: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Article • Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  12. Sickle cell disease treatment and management in India: a systematic review of interventional studies

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, October 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  13. Sickle cell disease-related knowledge and perceptions of traditional healers in tribal communities in India: implications on sickle cell disease programme

    Article • Journal of Community Genetics, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  14. Inclusive partnership and community mobilization approaches to improve maternal health care access among internal migrants in nine Indian cities

    Article • Journal of Migration and Health, September 2022, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  15. Feasibility of population-based screening of sickle cell disease through the primary health care system in tribal areas of India

    Article • Journal of Medical Screening, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  16. Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Indian tribal population: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Ethnicity and Health, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  17. Peripheral health workers’ knowledge and experience related to sickle cell disease: an in-depth interview study in six tribal-dominated districts of India

    Article • Journal of Community Genetics, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  18. Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Article • The Lancet, September 2021, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Prof Suhad M Bahijri, Professor Yousef Khader, Dr Shariful Islam, Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Haroldo FERREIRA, Prof. Nader saki, Axel Carlsson

  19. Inadequate community knowledge about sickle cell disease among the Indian tribal population: a formative assessment in a multicentric intervention study

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, May 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  20. Community engagement to control dengue and other vector-borne diseases in Alappuzha municipality, Kerala, India

    Article • Pathogens and Global Health, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  21. Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

    Article • eLife, March 2021, eLife

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Prof Suhad M Bahijri, Professor Yousef Khader, Dr Shariful Islam, Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Prof. Nader saki, Axel Carlsson

  22. Prevalence of sickle cell disease among children of tribal population in India: Feasibility of screening at community level in low‐resource settings

    Article • Pediatric Blood & Cancer, February 2021, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  23. Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Article • The Lancet, November 2020, Elsevier

    Prof Suhad M Bahijri, DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Professor Yousef Khader, Dr Shariful Islam, Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Prof. Nader saki

  24. Dengue awareness, preventive behaviours and Aedes breeding opportunities among slums and slum-like pockets in Delhi, India: a formative assessment

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, October 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  25. Beyond the screening: The need for health systems intervention for prevention and management of sickle cell disease among tribal population of India

    Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, September 2020, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  26. Participants’ perception of the AIIMS Trauma Assessment and Management (ATAM) course for management of polytrauma due to road traffic injuries: A multi-institutional experience from India

    Article • Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, September 2020, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  27. Trauma Care in India: Capacity Assessment Survey From Five Centers

    Article • Journal of Surgical Research, August 2020, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  28. Patient experiences and health system responsiveness among internal migrants: A nationwide study in 13 Indian cities

    Article • Journal of Healthcare Quality Research, July 2019, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  29. The costs of seeking healthcare: Illness, treatment seeking and out of pocket expenditures among the urban poor in Delhi, India

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, June 2019, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  30. Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Article • Nature, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stevo Popovic, Dr Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes, Dr. Anwar Mahmoud Batieha, Professor Yousef Khader, Axel Carlsson, DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Prof Suhad M Bahijri

  31. Migration and health: A systematic review on health and health care of internal migrants in India

    Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, August 2018, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Yadlapalli Kusuma

  32. Birth preparedness and determinants of birth place among migrants living in slums and slum-like pockets in Delhi, India

    Article • Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, June 2018, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  33. Internal migrants' experiences with and perceptions of frontline health workers: A nationwide study in 13 Indian cities

    Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, May 2018, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Yadlapalli Kusuma

  34. Access to childhood immunisation services and its determinants among recent and settled migrants in Delhi, India

    Article • Public Health, May 2018, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  35. Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Prof. Maciej Banach, Dr Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes, Giovanni Veronesi, Dr. Anwar Mahmoud Batieha, Professor Yousef Khader, Axel Carlsson, DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Prof Suhad M Bahijri

  36. Health Insurance: Awareness, Utilization, and its Determinants among the Urban Poor in Delhi, India

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, January 2018, Atlantis Press

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  37. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Article • The Lancet, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Erkin Mirrakhimov, Prof. Maciej Banach, Dr. Anwar Mahmoud Batieha, Dr. Stevo Popovic, Dr Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes, Prof. Catherine Kyobutungi, Giovanni Veronesi, Francesco Panza, Professor Yousef Khader, Axel Carlsson, DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Rajaa Al-Raddadi

  38. Utilization of maternal health services by the migrant population living in the non-notified slums of Hyderabad city, India

    Article • Indian Journal of Community Health, March 2017, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  39. Impact of health education based intervention on community’s awareness of dengue and its prevention in Delhi, India

    Article • Global Health Promotion, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Yadlapalli Kusuma, DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  40. Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Article • The Lancet, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Anwar Mahmoud Batieha, Dr Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes, Prof. Catherine Kyobutungi, Prof Suhad M Bahijri, Giovanni Veronesi, Francesco Panza, Professor Yousef Khader, Axel Carlsson, DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Rajaa Al-Raddadi

  41. Mother’s Recognition of and Treatment Triggers for Common Childhood Illnesses among Migrant Santal Tribe Living in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Article • Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  42. Treatment-seeking and out-of-pocket expenditure on childhood illness in a migrant tribal community in Bhubaneswar, Odisha State, India

    Article • Paediatrics and International Child Health, December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  43. Violence against women and girls in the Sustainable Development Goals

    Article • Health Promotion Perspectives, October 2016, International Society for Phytocosmetic Scicences

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  44. A century of trends in adult human height

    Article • eLife, July 2016, eLife

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Dr Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes, Prof. Catherine Kyobutungi, Prof Suhad M Bahijri, Giovanni Veronesi, Axel Carlsson, Professor Yousef Khader

  45. UTILIZATION OF MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES AMONG INTERNAL MIGRANTS IN MUMBAI, INDIA

    Article • Journal of Biosocial Science, May 2016, Cambridge University Press

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  46. Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants

    Article • The Lancet, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Anwar Mahmoud Batieha, Dr Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes, Francesco Panza, Professor Yousef Khader, DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  47. Building Partnership to Improve Migrants’ Access to Healthcare in Mumbai

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, November 2015, Frontiers

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  48. Migration and health-care access: Barriers to access government health services by migrant tribal community living in an eastern Indian city

    Article • International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health, January 2015, ScopeMed International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  49. Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment

    Article • The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 2014, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Francesco Panza, Marit B Veierød

  50. Coverage of, and compliance with, mass drug administration under the programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in India: a systematic review

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  51. The Global Cardiovascular Risk Transition: Associations of Four Metabolic Risk Factors with National Income, Urbanization, and Western Diet in 1980 and 2008

    Article • Circulation, March 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Francesco Panza

  52. Speech input-output system in Indian farming sector

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  53. A unique human rotavirus (non vaccine) G9P4 genotype infection in a child with gastroenteritis

    Article • Indian Pediatrics, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  54. Encounters with Talsa: Worship and Healing Practices for Measles among a Rural-Urban Migrant Santal Tribal Community in Orissa, India

    Article • Mankind Quarterly, January 2012, Ulster Institute for Social Research

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  55. Antenatal care service utilization in tribal and rural areas in a South Indian district

    Article • Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association, April 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  56. Dowry deaths: a neglected public health issue in India

    Article • International Health, March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  57. National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants

    Article • The Lancet, February 2011, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Francesco Panza, Marit B Veierød

  58. National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participants

    Article • The Lancet, February 2011, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu, Francesco Panza

  59. Domestic violence in Eastern India: Factors associated with victimization and perpetration

    Article • Public Health, March 2010, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  60. A qualitative study on the adverse reactions of mass treatment for lymphatic filariasis in Orissa, India

    Article • Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, January 2010, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  61. Health-related quality of life of elderly living in the rural community and homes for the elderly in a district of India

    Article • Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  62. Domestic violence against women in eastern India: a population-based study on prevalence and related issues

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  63. Marriage, Sex, and Hydrocele: An Ethnographic Study on the Effect of Filarial Hydrocele on Conjugal Life and Marriageability from Orissa, India

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, April 2009, PLOS

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  64. Health status of the elderly population among four primitive tribes of Orissa, India: A clinico-epidemiological study

    Article • Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  65. Clinicians' Attitude on Mass Drug Administration Under the Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: A Qualitative Study From Orissa, India

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, December 2008, SAGE Publications

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  66. Mass drug administration under the programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in Orissa, India: a mixed-methods study to identify factors associated with compliance and non-compliance

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, December 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  67. Primary Healthcare Services Among a Migrant Indigenous Population Living in an Eastern Indian City

    Article • Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  68. Chronic energy deficiency in some low socio-economic populations from South India: Relationships between body mass index, waist–hip ratio and conicity index

    Article • HOMO, March 2008, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  69. Sexual risk behaviour, knowledge and attitude related to HIV transmission: a study among a migrant tribal group living in the slums of Bhubaneswar City, Orissa, India

    Article • Journal of Public Health, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  70. The Association of Tobacco Smoking and Blood Pressure in Some Low Socioeconomic Groups from Andhra Pradesh, India

    Article • High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  71. Contraceptive Services of the District Health System in Tribal and Rural Areas of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh

    Article • Journal of Health Management, December 2007, SAGE Publications

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  72. Personal-protection measures against mosquitoes: a study of practices and costs in a district, in the Indian state of Orissa, where malaria and lymphatic filariasis are co-endemic

    Article • Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, October 2007, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  73. Iodine deficiency in urban slums of Bhubaneswar

    Article • The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  74. Clinicians’ practices related to management of filarial adenolymphangitis and lymphoedema in Orissa, India

    Article • Acta Tropica, June 2007, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  75. Chronic energy deficiency and relationships of body mass index with waist hip ratio and conicity index in some low socio-economic groups from South India

    Article • Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, January 2007, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  76. Use of an inclusive-partnership strategy in urban areas of Orissa, India, to increase compliance in a mass drug administration for the control of lymphatic filariasis

    Article • Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, October 2006, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  77. Adverse reactions following mass drug administration during the Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis in Orissa State, India

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, May 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  78. Impact of chronic lymphatic filariasis on quantity and quality of productive work among weavers in an endemic village from India

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, May 2006, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  79. Use of the Dermatology Life Quality Index in filarial lymphoedema patients

    Article • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, March 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  80. A randomized clinical trial to compare the efficacy of three treatment regimens along with footcare in the morbidity management of filarial lymphoedema

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, July 2005, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  81. Epidemiology of episodic adenolymphangitis: a longitudinal prospective surveillance among a rural community endemic for bancroftian filariasis in coastal Orissa, India

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  82. Knowledge of lymphatic filariasis among the population of an endemic area in rural Madhya Pradesh, India

    Article • Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  83. The programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in Orissa, India: the attitudes of some programme partners

    Article • Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, October 2004, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  84. Coverage, compliance and some operational issues of mass drug administration during the programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in Orissa, India

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, June 2004, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  85. Knowledge and beliefs about elephantiasis and hydrocele of lymphatic filariasis and some socio-demographic determinants in an endemic community of Eastern India

    Article • Public Health, March 2004, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  86. Treatment costs and work time loss due to episodic adenolymphangitis in lymphatic filariasis patients in rural communities of Orissa, India

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, November 2003, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  87. Footcare among lymphoedema patients attending a filariasis clinic in South India: a study of knowledge and practice

    Article • Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, April 2003, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  88. The economic loss due to treatment costs and work loss to individuals with chronic lymphatic filariasis in rural communities of Orissa, India

    Article • Acta Tropica, April 2002, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  89. Blood pressure levels among cross-cultural populations of Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Article • Annals of Human Biology, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  90. Asymmetry of finger ridge countsamong four tribal populations of Andhra Pradesh, India

    Article • HOMO, January 2001, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  91. Field trial of oral cholera vaccine in Vietnam

    Article • The Lancet, April 1997, Elsevier

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu

  92. Inbreeding effects on reproductive outcome among seven tribes of Andhra Pradesh, India

    Article • American Journal of Human Biology, January 1995, Wiley

    DR Bontha Veerraju Babu