The World Bank, in partnership with Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), has launched India Health Beat — short, evidence based policy note series primarily targeted at Indian policy makers at various levels. The recently published (December 2010) set of policy briefs, which is the fourth round, is based on the theme of urban health in India. Within this overarching theme, the series contains notes on variety of topics ranging from institutional arrangements for service delivery to population-based public health challenges in urban settings, from mapping of broad urban trends with respect to demography, poverty, and disease epidemiology to specific success stories of transformation of public health services in cities. The following are the nine Urban Health Policy Notes
1. Healthcare Challenges in Urbanizing India
2. McKinsey’s Urban Governance and Planning – Relevance to Health
3. Institutional Arrangements in Providing Urban Health Services: Current Context and Possible Way Forward
4. Strengthening Public Health in Urban India: The Role of National Urban Health Mission
5. Public Health in Urban India: Lessons from Surat
6. Urban Health: Policy and Polity
7. Maternal and Newborn Health: Dynamics of Seeking Health Care within Mumbai Slums
8. Health Policy Challenges for the Urbanizing India
9. Maternal and Newborn Health: Dynamics of Seeking Health Care within Mumbai Slums
Please follow this link to download the Urban Health Policy Beats
http://www.phfi.org/programmes/indiahealthbeat/index.html