PUBLICATIONS
Costs of surgical procedures in Indian hospitals
Costs of surgical procedures in Indian hospitals Susmita Chatterjee1, Ramanan Laxminarayan BMJ Open 2013;3:e002844 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002844 Objective Despite a growing volume of surgical procedures in low-income and middle-income countries, the costs of these...
Unit Cost of Medical Services at Different Hospitals in India
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...
Stairway to Death: Maternal Mortality beyond Numbers
“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
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...
Evaluating Birth Preparedness and Pregnancy Complications Readiness Knowledge and Skills of ASHA in India
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...
Variations in catastrophic health expenditure estimates from household surveys in India
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 Global Relevance of India’s Pharmaceutical Patent Laws
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...
Special Issue on ‘Engaging with public health”
Special Issue on ‘Engaging with public health’, Indian Anthropologist Vol. 43 (1), 2013 Guest Editor – Arima Mishra Contributors – Kabir Sheikh, John Porter, Prashanth, N.S. Bart Criel, Bruno Marchal, Flora Cornish, Tulsi Patel, Suhita Chopra Chatterjee, Devaki...
Association between legume intake and self-reported diabetes among adult men and women in India
Sutapa Agrawal and Shah Ebrahim BMC Public Health 2013 Abstract Background It is postulated that a diet high in legumes may be beneficial in preventing diabetes. However, little empirical evidence on this association exists in developing countries. We aimed to examine...
Promoting universal financial protection: evidence from the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in Gujarat, India
Narayanan Devadasan et al Health Research Policy and Systems 2013, 11:29 doi:10.1186/1478-4505-11-29 Abstract Background India’s health expenditure is met mostly by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments at the time of illness. To protect poor families, the...