Cost of Delivering Health Care Services in Public Sector Primary and Community Health Centres in North India
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Trends in Malaria in Odisha, India—An Analysis of the 2003–2013 Time-Series Data from the National Vector Borne Disease Control Program
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Economic Evaluation study using Decision Tree Model on MDR-TB published
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Draft National Health Policy 2015
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Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development : Country Summary Report for Thailand
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Union Budget 2015-16 and Health Sector
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Universal access to medicines:evidence from Rajasthan, India
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KEY INDICATORS OF SOCIAL CONSUMPTION: HEALTH, 2014
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Admission open for e-learning course in Public Health Management (ePHM)
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Food price and child malnutrition study in Journal of Nutrition
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Fwd: Health Systems comment from niti aayog
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Workshop on Data Analysis using R software and Research Methodology
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Development and testing of a scale to measure trust in the public healthcare system
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National Guidelines for Free drugs and diagnostics Initiative by MOHFW
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The Association between Provider Practice and Knowledge of ORS and Zinc Supplementation for the Treatment of Childhood Diarrhea in Bihar, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India: A Multi-Site Cross-Sectional Study
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Is Provision of Healthcare Sufficient to Ensure Better Access? An Exploration of the Scope for Public-Private Partnership in India
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Effect of User Charges on Secondary Level Surgical Care Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Expenditures in Haryana State, India
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Japanese Encephalitis in Assam, India: Need to Increase Healthcare Workers’ Understanding to Improve Health Care
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Financing and Provision of Healthcare
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The rising burden of chronic conditions among urban poor: a three-year follow-up survey in Bengaluru, India
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Implications of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment Using the WHO/ISH Risk Prediction Charts in Rural India
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Equity in utilization of health care services: Perspective of pregnant women in southern Odisha, India
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Article Utilization of outpatient care in Odisha: Factors determining the choice of Public or Private Health care Facility
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A useful systematic review paper from BMC Public Health
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How prepared are young, rural women in India to address their sexual and reproductive health needs? a cross-sectional assessment of youth in Jharkhand
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Examining inequalities in uptake of maternal health care and choice of provider in underserved urban areas of Mumbai, India: a mixed methods study
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Assessment of primary care facilities for cardiovascular disease preparedness in Madhya Pradesh, India
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Reproductive healthcare utilization in urban poor settlements of Delhi: Baseline survey of ANCHUL (Ante Natal and Child Health care in Urban Slums) project
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National leadership: driving forward the updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s an d Adolescents’ Health
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Going Universal: How 24 countries are implementing universal health coverage reforms from the bottom up
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Inequity in costs of seeking sexual and reproductive health services in India and Kenya
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Call for good practices on Quality of Care in maternal health
Dear Friends, The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is a global Network of maternal health advocates campaigning for more resources and improved implementation of policies and programs to prevent the needless deaths of women. White Ribbon Alliance India (WRAI)...
Understanding the “Cash-Less” Nature of Government-Sponsored Health Insurance Schemes:Evide nce From Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Aarogya Yojana in Mumbai
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Big-pharmaceuticalisation: Clinical trials and Contract Research Organisations in India
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What Can Education Systems Research Learn from Health Systems Research?
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Analysing implementer narratives on addressing health inequity through convergent action on the social determinants of health in India
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Evidence-based medicine: is it a bridge too far?
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Price elasticity of tobacco products among economic classes in India, 2011–2012
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Prioritizing action on health inequities in cities: An evaluation of Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) in 15 cities from Asia and Africa
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Dear All, Happy to share a new study on women health and nutrition. 'Breastfeeding, pregnant, and non-breastfeeding nor pregnant women's food consumption: A matched within-household analysis in India', Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (Elsevier), by, Jasmine...
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Relative Roles of Weather Variables and Change in Human Population in Malaria: Comparison over Different States of India
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