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...
Health financing for universal coverage and health system performance: concepts and implications for policy Joseph Kutzin Unless the concept is clearly understood, “universal coverage” (or universal health coverage, UHC) can be used to justify practically any health...
International Journal of MCH and AIDS Volume 2, Issue 1, 2013 Smitha Kochukuttan, TK Sundari Ravindran,Suneeta Krishnan Abstract Background: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in India relies on Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to act as a link between...
Magdalena Z. Raban, Rakhi Dandona and Lalit Dandona Bulletin of the World Health Organization Abstract Objective To assess the comparability of out-of-pocket (OOP)payment and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) estimates from different household surveys in...
The recent decision in the Novartis Glivec case continues a long-established tradition of India contesting a Northern agenda on patent laws. This key global role, arising from the exceptional combination of a vibrant domestic pharmaceutical industry with civil society...
