Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis Summary The UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in September, 2011, is an unprecedented opportunity to create a sustained global movement against premature death and preventable...
Global status report on non-communicable diseases 2010 World Health Organization April 2011 Abstract This report sets out the statistics, evidence and experiences needed to launch a more forceful response to the growing threat posed by non-communicable diseases (NCD)....
— On Thu, 14/4/11, N. Devadasan <deva> wrote: From: N. Devadasan <deva> Subject: Fwd: A critique of the National Health Research Policy in EPW – Upendra, Prashanth & Devadasan This is one of our articles that was published in the EPW. You...
Learning from others Amartya Sen “Is there anyone, in the five parts of India, who does not admire China?” asked Yi Jing in the 7th century, on returning to China after being in India for 10 years. Yi Jing spent his years studying, among other subjects, ayurveda (the...
Women’s Health, Population Control and Collective Action Harini Narayanan, Economic & Political Weekly Abstract Health policy in India, like all public policy, has always been the product of complex political processes. In the area of women’s health, the situation...
