PUBLICATIONS
The Effect of Health-Facility Admission and Skilled Birth Attendant Coverage on Maternal Survival in India: A Case-Control Analysis
The Effect of Health-Facility Admission and Skilled Birth Attendant Coverage on Maternal Survival in India: A Case-Control Analysis Ann L. Montgomery et al, PLOS One June 2014 Background Research in areas of low skilled attendant coverage found that maternal mortality...
Association of birth of girls with postnatal depression and exclusive breastfeeding: an observational study
Association of birth of girls with postnatal depression and exclusive breastfeeding: an observational study Akanksha Jain Et al BMJ Open June 2014 Abstract Objectives and hypothesis: To examine the influence of gender of the baby on exclusive breastfeeding and...
What a difference a state makes : health reform in Andhra Pradesh
What a difference a state makes : health reform in Andhra Pradesh Bergkvist, Sofi et al World Bank Working Paper Series, 2014 Abstract In the mid-2000s, India began rolling out large-scale, publicly-financed health insurance schemes mostly targeting the poor. This...
Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage
Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage:Final report of the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage WHO 2014 Overview Since 2010, more than one hundred countries have requested policy support and technical advice for...
Access to medicines from a health system perspective;HPP Article
Access to medicines from a health system perspective Maryam Bigdeli et al Health Policy and Planning Advance Access published November 22, 2012 Most health system strengthening interventions ignore interconnections between systems components. In particular, complex...
Systematic review on substance use and road traffic crashes in India
Dear Friends, Please find a recently published systematic review on substance use and road traffic crashes in India. Best wishes, Ashis Das Das et al Substance use and RTI SR India TIP.pdf
Changing Mindsets;Strategy on Health Policy and Systems Research
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?
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- EPW Article
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...
“Attributable deaths from smoking in the last 100 years in India”
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 smokers (about...