SOUMYA SWAMINATHAN Tuberculosis is easily one of India’s most critical public health issues, but TB prevention and control efforts face several challenges. Of these, perhaps the most significant is the effective engagement and participation of India’s vast private...
Abstract The dominant theoretical basis of our public health practice originates from a positivist or reductionist paradigm. It fails to take into account the complexity emerging out of public health’s multiple influences originating from biological and social worlds....
Promotion of access to essential medicines for non-communicable diseases: practical implications of the UN political declaration Abstract Access to medicines and vaccines to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is unacceptably low worldwide. In the 2011...
The interactions of ethical notions and moral values of immediate stakeholders of immunisation services in two Indian states: a qualitative study Abstract Objectives This study examines the existing norms regarding immunisation within the communities and the ethical...
Abstract Universal healthcare is an aspirational goal for India but while the need for it is generally acknowledged a number of problems stand in the way of realising this goal – lack of adequate allocation of funds from the Centre and the States being the most...
