Abstract Private sector healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries is sometimes argued to be more efficient, accountable, and sustainable than public sector delivery. Conversely, the public sector is often regarded as providing more equitable and...
Maternal and neonatal health expenditure in mumbai slums (India): A cross sectional study Skordis-Worrall et al. BMC Public Health Abstract Background: The cost of maternity care can be a barrier to access that may increase maternal and neonatal mortality risk. We...
State health insurance and out-of-pocket health expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India Victoria Y. Fan · Anup Karan · Ajay Mahal In 2007 the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out Aarogyasri health insurance to reduce catastrophic health...
Dear HSRII readers, This is a research paper titled “Attributable deaths from smoking in the last 100 years in India”. Simply put, it estimates the total number of cigarettes and bidis manufactured in India over the last 100 years, derives the number of...
Draft Drug Price Policy 2011 Legitimising Unaffordable Medicine Prices? Sakthivel Selvaraj, Habib Hasan Farooqui Economic & Political Weekly EPW november 17, 2012 vol xlviI no 46 Pursuing its neo-liberal agenda of decontrol and liberalisation, the present...
Changing Mindsets;Strategy on Health Policy and Systems Research Source:http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/whostrategyhpsr/en/index.html The World Health Organization has launched the first global strategy on health policy and systems research (HPSR) at the Second...
