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Extending Application of the ‘Hardcore’ Definition to Smokeless Tobacco Use: Estimates from a Nationally Representative Population in India and its Implications
Extending Application of the ‘Hardcore’ Definition to Smokeless Tobacco Use: Estimates from a Nationally Representative Population in India and its Implications Pratap Kumar Jena et al Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention Abstract Background: The term ‘hardcore’...
Morbidity Patterns and Health Care Seeking Behavior among Older Widows in India
Abstract In the process of health transition, India is facing rapid pace of demographic aging. Rapid increase in older adult population posed serious concerns regarding health and health care utilization for them. However, very limited research documented...
For an all-party manifesto on health
VINOD PAUL & K. SRINATH REDDY As the countdown to the next general election begins, political parties are making multiple promises to pull in votes. All the party leaders are committing to transforming the lives of people. But health, ironically, does not feature...
Engaging the private sector in TB control
SOUMYA SWAMINATHAN Tuberculosis is easily one of India’s most critical public health issues, but TB prevention and control efforts face several challenges. Of these, perhaps the most significant is the effective engagement and participation of India’s vast private...
Governability Framework for the Evaluation and Implementation of Complex Public Health Functions
Abstract The dominant theoretical basis of our public health practice originates from a positivist or reductionist paradigm. It fails to take into account the complexity emerging out of public health’s multiple influences originating from biological and social worlds....
Promotion of access to essential medicines for non-communicable diseases
Promotion of access to essential medicines for non-communicable diseases: practical implications of the UN political declaration Abstract Access to medicines and vaccines to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is unacceptably low worldwide. In the 2011...
The interactions of ethical notions and moral values of immediate stakeholders of immunisation services in two Indian states
The interactions of ethical notions and moral values of immediate stakeholders of immunisation services in two Indian states: a qualitative study Abstract Objectives This study examines the existing norms regarding immunisation within the communities and the ethical...
State Level Strategies for Health Insurance and Health Care
Abstract Universal healthcare is an aspirational goal for India but while the need for it is generally acknowledged a number of problems stand in the way of realising this goal – lack of adequate allocation of funds from the Centre and the States being the most...
Extending Application of the ‘Hardcore’ Definition to Smokeless Tobacco Use
Extending Application of the ‘Hardcore’ Definition to Smokeless Tobacco Use: Estimates from a Nationally Representative Population in India and its Implications Abstract Background: The term ‘hardcore’ has been applied to use of smoking tobacco and generally...
Equity in Hospital Services Utilisation in India
Studies from a number of low-income countries have found that the wealthy often use publicly financed health services at a higher rate than the poor. To examine the situation in India, the use of public and private sector hospital services by economic class was...