Analyses of enrollment, dropout and effectiveness of RSBY in northern rural India Wameq Raza and Ellen van de Poel and Pradeep Panda Erasmus University Rotterdam, Microinsurance Academy, BRAC Abstract The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) was launched in 2008 to...
Dear all Greetings from Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru!! I am sharing a paper that I co-authored with my colleagues from IPH working on urban health issues. The paper published in BMC Health Services Research an international journal is a 3-year follow-up on...
Out-of-pocket healthcare payments on chronic conditions impoverish urban poor in Bangalore, India Upendra Bhojani, BS Thriveni, Roopa Devadasan, CM Munegowda, Narayanan Devadasan, Patrick Kolsteren and Bart Criel BMC Public Health 2012, 12:990 Abstract: Background The...
Global status report on non-communicable diseases 2010 World Health Organization April 2011 Abstract This report sets out the statistics, evidence and experiences needed to launch a more forceful response to the growing threat posed by non-communicable diseases (NCD)....
No longer diseases of the wealthy: prevalence and health-seeking for self-reported chronic conditions among urban poor in Southern India Upendra Bhojani Et al BMC Health Services Research 2013, Abstract Background The burden of chronic conditions is high in low- and...
