Abel K Samuel
Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences
10 Papers
7 Citations
Abel K Samuel is an academic researcher from Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 8 publications.
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Papers
Determinants of health care seeking behavior among rural population of a coastal area in South India
TL;DR: Private practitioners were preferred due to their better availability and quality of care and public health care facilities were preferred by due to low cost of services and HSB varies with the type of illness and income of the individuals.
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An epidemiological study of road traffic accidents among patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital in Puducherry
TL;DR: It is evident that prevention and control of most of the modifiable factors can bring about a change in the statistics that would ensure the authors' future to be safer.
Community-based burden, warning signs, and risk factors of cancer using public-private partnership model in Kerala, India.
Geethu Mathew,Shaliet Rose Sebastian,A. I. Benjamin,Vinay Goyal,Jiju Joseph,Abey Sushan,Abel K Samuel,A L Sheeja +7 more
TL;DR: Community based health education to increase awareness, screening for cancers and breast self-examination in the community could help in early diagnosis and prevention at primary level and scientific study to assess the risk factors of cancers using case control design could be done in this population.
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Evaluation of chromogenic agar medium, can it be a suitable alternative to conventional culture system for identification of uropathogens?
Arun Sachu,Abel K Samuel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors evaluated the usefulness of HiCromeTM UTI by comparing isolation rate and presumptive identification of uropathogens against CLED and MAC agar.
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Diet and exercise in obesity: A case report from India
Abel K Samuel,Joy Bazroy,Anil J Purty,Kisku King Herald,Zile Singh,Maghida Sridhar,Irusappan Srikanth +6 more
TL;DR: A rural mother aged 58 years, a widow for the past 29 years, presented to the chest clinic with complaints of breathlessness, snoring, and excessive sleepiness, and diet and exercise along with counseling for a lifestyle change made her lose 7% of body weight.
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