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...
A Stinging Indictment of India’s Drug Regulation Authority S Srinivasan June 23, 2012 vol xlviI no 10 25 EPW Economic & Political Weekly The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization is expected to protect the citizen from the marketing of harmful...
Effect of implementation of Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) programme on neonatal and infant mortality: cluster randomised controlled trial BMJ 2012; 344 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e1634 (Published 21 March 2012) Nita Bhandari,et al Abstract...
4. Medicines for All S Srinivasan The recommendations on access to medicines, vaccines and technology made in the report of the Planning Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage for India are welcome and should go a long way towards...
1. 1. Universal Health Coverage in India Gita Sen India’s steps towards universal health coverage began in the early years after Independence but they faltered because of various factors, including resource constraints. The context has vastly changed since then...