By Jacqueline Bhaba, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health I read Sharma et al.’s recent paper ‘Sexual violence in India: addressing gaps between policy and implementation’ with interest. The death of “Nirbhaya”, the...
By Sanghita Bhattacharyya From conception through to birth, a child’s health is very closely linked to its mother’s. The pre-delivery phase is a particularly important stage in the continuum of care. Good information and care during the antenatal period links the...
World Health Day 2014: Preventing vector-borne diseases “Small bite, big threat” 2 APRIL 2014 | GENEVA – More than half the world’s population is at risk from diseases such as malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, schistosomiasis, and yellow fever,...
Perceptions of State Government stakeholders & researchers regarding public health research priorities in India: An exploratory survey Prabhdeep Kaur, Grace A. Chitra, Sanjay M. Mehendale & Vishwa M. Katoch Indian J Med Res 139, February 2014, pp 231-235...
Early Hospital Mortality among Adult Trauma Patients Significantly Declined between 1998-2011: Three Single-Centre Cohorts from Mumbai, India Martin Gerdin et al, 2014 Background Traumatic injury causes more than five million deaths each year of which about 90% occur...
