By Jacqueline Bhaba, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health I read Sharma et al.’s recent paper ‘Sexual violence in India: addressing gaps between policy and implementation’ with interest. The death of “Nirbhaya”, the...
What explains regulatory failure? Analysing the architecture of health care regulation in two Indian states Sheikh K, Saligram PS, Hort K Health Policy and Planning 2013 Abstract Regulating health care is a pre-eminent policy challenge in many low- and middle-income...
Background In 2005, with the goal of reducing the numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, the Government of India launched Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a conditional cash transfer scheme, to incentivise women to give birth in a health facility. We...
HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY IN HEALTH SECTOR STRATEGIES:HOW TO ASSESS POLICY COHERENCE Human Rights and Gender Equality in Health Sector Strategies: how to assess policy coherence is designed to support countries as they design and implement national health...
SUMMARY LMIC Mixed Health Systems: mixed health care systems in low and middle income countries are distinguished by significant heterogeneity in types of establishments and providers, a dominant unorganized private sector, and inefficiencies in government delivery of...
