C. Palanivel

Addressing the Need of the Forgotten: Recent Initiatives to Address Occupational Health Hazards amongst Salt Workers in India

Rakesh Kumar, Kapil Yadav, Smita Sinha, C. Palanivel, M. A. Ansari, Siddhartha Sinha, S. Chandrakant Pandav & M. G. Karmarkar · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: In this paper, we review the occupational health hazards among iodized salt workers and initiatives to address them in India. Methods: A systematic electronic and manual search was conducted to identify literature on occupational health hazards and initiatives to addr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21176

Profile of Patients Attending an Animal Bite Management Clinic in Rural Pondicherry, India

S. V. Nikhil, S. A. Rizwan, Vinoth G. Chellaiyan, V. Kavita, Ravi P. Upadhyay & C. Palanivel · International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health · 2014

Aims: In India, annual incidence of animal bite is estimated as 1.7 per 100 population and that of human rabies as 1.7 per 1,00,000 population. Since rabies is universally fatal it requires prevention through timely management by wound care, Anti-Rabies Vaccine (ARV) and rabies i...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/IJTDH/2014/5683