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...
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...
Replicating Tamil Nadu’s Drug Procurement Model Prabal Vikram Singh et al September 29, 2012 vol xlviI no 39 EPW Economic & Political Weekly Most states are attempting to copy the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation’s model of centralised tendering and...
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 life time...
Improving quality and access for the poor Edited by Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal, Henry Lucas, David Peters Published 9th August 2012 by Routledge – 198 pages Series: Pathways to Sustainability Series There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much...
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Demand side financing (DSF) is a widely employed strategy to enhance utilization of healthcare. The impact of DSF on health care seeking in general and that of maternal care in particular is already known. Yet, its effect on financial access to...
