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Item Challenges in scaling up successful public health interventions: Lessons learnt from resistance to a nationwide roll-out of the weekly iron–folic acid supplementation programme for adolescents in India.(2015-03) Malhotra, Sumit; Yadav, Kapil; Kusuma, Y.S.; Sinha, Smita; Yadav, Vikas; Pandav, Chandrakant S.Anaemia, a major public health problem globally, affects an estimated 1.6 billion people.1 It has effects on the physical and mental health, as well as the productivity of people, particularly those in the vulnerable groups.2,3 The National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-3, 2005–06 estimated that 56% of women and 30% of men in India in the age group of 15–19 years were anaemic.4 Anaemia among people in the age group of 15–24 years was reported to be more common in the rural than urban areas, and among families belonging to the lower socioeconomic strata (Table I). Iron deficiency anaemia is one of the most prevalent micronutrient deficiencies globally and in India.5 About 60% of adolescents in the age group of 10–17 years have been reported to consume less than 50% of the recommended dietary allowance of iron, according to the 2012 National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) multistate survey.6 The low iron content of a typical Indian diet, along with the high prevalence of worm infestation, is the cause of the high prevalence of anaemia in India.7 The various strategies for theItem Making a postgraduate journal club an effective learning opportunity: Experience from the Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi(2014-11) Kant, Shashi; Haldar, Partha; Pandav, Chandrakant S.; Misra, Puneet; Rai, SanjayA journal club (JC) is defined as a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically discuss the applicability of current peerreviewed articles published in medical journals.1 The memoirs of Sir James Paget, a surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK (1835–54), contain the earliest mention of a JC. Sir Paget described ‘a kind of club in a small room over a baker’s shop near the hospital gate where we could sit and read journals and play cards’.2 There is evidence of the existence of the first formal JC in 1875, when William Osler of McGill University, Montréal, Canada found a way of making expensive periodicals affordable by purchasing expensive journals with fellow students at a group rate.