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Challenges and opportunities for policy decisions to address health equity in developing health systems: case study of the policy processes in the Indian state of Orissa.
ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: Achieving health equity is a pertinent need of the developing health systems. Though policy process is crucial for planning and attaining health equity, the existing evidences on policy processes are scanty in this regard. This article...
Aarogyasri Healthcare Model:Advantage Private Sector EPW Article
Aarogyasri Healthcare Model:Advantage Private Sector 2011 vol xlvi no 49 EPW Economic & Political Weekly Rajan Shukla, Veena Shatrugna, R Srivatsan Andhra Pradesh’s Aarogyasri programme has placed health on the political map in the state and is popular with the...
Strengthening Malaria Service Delivery through Supportive Supervision and Community Mobilization in an Endemic Indian Setting – An Evaluation of Nested Delivery Models
Malaria continues to be a prominent global public health challenge, in part because of the slow population adoption of recommended preventive and curative behaviors. This paper tests the effectiveness of two service delivery models designed to promote...
India’s Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor: Evidence from the Early Experience of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
India's Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor: Evidence from the Early Experience of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Centre for Policy Research Robert Palacios, Changging Sun This monograph documents the early experience of states, insurance companies, households...
Seven principles for strengthening research capacity in low- and middle-income countries: simple ideas in a complex world
Seven principles for strengthening research capacity in low- and middle-income countries: simple ideas in a complex world ESSENCE (Enhancing Support for Strengthening the Effectiveness of National Capacity) Good practice document series Overview This good practice...
Frameworks for evaluating health research capacity strengthening: a qualitative study
Frameworks for evaluating health research capacity strengthening: a qualitative study Alan Boyd et al Health Research Policy and Systems 2013 Background Health research capacity strengthening (RCS) projects are often complex and hard to evaluate. In order to inform...
Success factors for reducing maternal and child mortality
Success factors for reducing maternal and child mortality Bulletin of the World Health Organization Past issues Volume 92: 2014 Volume 92, Number 7, July 2014, 465-544 Shyama Kuruvilla et al Reducing maternal and child mortality is a priority in the Millennium...
Parallel systems and human resource management in India’s public health services : a view from the front lines
Parallel systems and human resource management in India's public health services : a view from the front lines Abstract La Forgia et al, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2014 There is building evidence in India that the delivery of health services suffers from...
Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS): A Case for Change in Definition, Analysis and Interpretation of “Cigarettes” and “Cigarettes Per Day” in Completed and Future Survey
Abstract Background: The Global Adult Tobacco Survey has 15 key indicators, cigarettes smoked per day (CPD) among daily smokers being one of them. The first wave of GATS in 14 countries indicated that mean CPD use is higher in women than men in India only,...
Evidence-based Planning–A Myth or Reality: Use of Evidence by the Planning Commission on Public-Private Partnership (PPP)
Abstract Public–private partnerships (PPP) are being touted as the way forward for health care in the country as demonstrated by the draft chapter of the 12th Five-year Plan for health. The planning commission refers to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital,...