Union Budget 2015-16 and Health Sector

Dear All, Kindly find below the main highlights of the Union Budget 2015-16 with regard to the health sector. Budget Allocation · Allocation of Rs.33,152 Crores to the health sector for the year 2015-16 · Enhanced Allocation to ICDS by Rs.1500 crore and Integrated...

Universal access to medicines:evidence from Rajasthan, India

Universal access to medicines:evidence from Rajasthan, India WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health | July–December 2014 | 3 (3–4) Sakthivel Selvaraj, Indranil Mukhopadhyay, Preeti Kumar, Malini Aisola, Pritam Datta, Pallav Bhat, Aashna Mehta, Swati Srivastava,...

Health in all policies training manual- WHO Publication

Health in all policies training manual This manual is a training resource to increase understanding of the importance of Health in All Policies among health and other professionals. The material will form the basis of 2- and 3-day workshops, which will: build capacity...

Food price and child malnutrition study in Journal of Nutrition

Dear All, Here is our new study ‘Food Price Spikes are Associated with Increased Malnutrition among Children in Andhra Pradesh, India’, published in Journal of Nutrition, which found that the spikes in food prices during the last global recession (2007-08) were...