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Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases: a roadmap for implementation
Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases: a roadmap for implementation Authors: Savioli,L.; Daumerie,D. Produced by: World Health Organization (2011) Efforts to combat the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) reached a turning point...
Re: Comparative Performance of Private and Public Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.
Dear Sir, Greetings ! Thanks for sending the study findings on Nutrition services, which is an excellent study and the findings may help us to rectify the field level problems and to improve the attendence of the needy people on VHNDs. I circulated this articles to...
Comparative Performance of Private and Public Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.
Abstract Private sector healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries is sometimes argued to be more efficient, accountable, and sustainable than public sector delivery. Conversely, the public sector is often regarded as providing more equitable and...
Maternal and neonatal health expenditure in mumbai slums (India): A cross sectional study
Maternal and neonatal health expenditure in mumbai slums (India): A cross sectional study Skordis-Worrall et al. BMC Public Health Abstract Background: The cost of maternity care can be a barrier to access that may increase maternal and neonatal mortality risk. We...
State health insurance and out-of-pocket health expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India
State health insurance and out-of-pocket health expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India Victoria Y. Fan · Anup Karan · Ajay Mahal In 2007 the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out Aarogyasri health insurance to reduce catastrophic health...
“Attributable deaths from smoking in the last 100 years in India”
Dear HSRII readers, 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...
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...
Access to medicines from a health system perspective
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...
Has Child Mortality in India Really Increased in the Last Two Decades? EPW Article
Nandita Saikia, Abhishek Singh, Faujdar Ram December 18, 2010 vol xlv no 51 EPW Economic & Political Weekly Abstract The trend in mortality from the Sample Registration System data shows a slowdown in improvements, particularly since the mid-1990s. According to...