Abstract Background: The Global Adult Tobacco Survey has 15 key indicators, cigarettes smoked per day (CPD) among daily smokers being one of them. The first wave of GATS in 14 countries indicated that mean CPD use is higher in women than men in India only,...
Abstract Public–private partnerships (PPP) are being touted as the way forward for health care in the country as demonstrated by the draft chapter of the 12th Five-year Plan for health. The planning commission refers to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital,...
Costs of surgical procedures in Indian hospitals Susmita Chatterjee1, Ramanan Laxminarayan BMJ Open 2013;3:e002844 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002844 Objective Despite a growing volume of surgical procedures in low-income and middle-income countries, the costs of these...
Abstract Institutional care is a growing component of health care costs in low- and middle-income countries, but local health planners in these countries have inadequate knowledge of the costs of different medical services. In India, greater utilisation of...
“This article explores the non-medical causes of maternal deaths to understand if these deaths could have been prevented with timely care. It is based on a study of maternal deaths in two blocks of Godda district of Jharkhand over a period of one year. These...
