The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has suggested making health a fundamental right, similar to education. This key proposal in the draft National Health Policy, 2015, suggests making denial of health an offence. Thirteen years after the previous health...
With increased funding and stepped-up investments in health systems, India today said it expects to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality and improving maternal health this year. With an almost 400 per cent increase in federal funding...
Maternal Mortality in India: Causes and Healthcare Service Use Based on a Nationally Representative Survey Ann L. Montgomery, Plos One,2014 Background Data on cause-specific mortality, skilled birth attendance, and emergency obstetric care access are essential to plan...
Programme Evaluation of the Janani Suraksha Yojana The Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is one of the flagship components of the National Rural Health Mission, and the key strategy to enable women to access institutional deliveries and thereby effect reductions in...
Julia Hussein, Dileep V Mavalankar, Sheetal Sharma and Lucia D’Ambruoso Abstract A functional health system is a necessary part of efforts to achieve maternal mortality reduction in developing countries. Puerperal sepsis is an infection contracted during childbirth...
