India and Health
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- Pumping iron – making prenatal iron supplementation work
- Rae Galloway / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- An estimated 58 per cent of pregnant women in developing countries are anaemic. Health ministries in most poor countries aim to provide iron supplements for pregnant women. So why is maternal anaemia still rife? Studies by the MotherC...
- From cradle to grave - does foetal growth influence adult health?
- Caroline Fall / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- India is currently experiencing an epidemic of coronary heart disease and diabetes. Low weight and small size at birth are thought to increase the risk of developing these diseases in later life. So what steps can India take to improv...
- Taking a healthy interest? Male involvement in reproductive health
- Saraswati Raju / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Involving men in reproductive health programmes is now a key concern. Despite plenty of rhetoric, the practicalities of so doing remain obscure. How can men be involved without undermining the right of women to control their own bodie...
- Increased risk behaviour due to the presence of an HIV vaccine: undoing the good in Southern India
- N.J.D. Nagelkerke; S.J. De Vlas / World Bank, 2003
- This paper examines the potential epidemiological impact of preventive HIV vaccines on the HIV epidemic in Southern India using a mathematical deterministic dynamic compartmental model. Various assumptions about the degree of p...
- Collection of case studies of HIV/AIDS
- B. Makinwa; M. O’Grady / Family Health International, 2001
- This collection of work is centred on HIV/AIDS prevention in the non-industrialised world and is based on studies performed by FHI's international and local partners in an international HIV prevention, the AIDS Control and Prevention ...
- Proceedings from a workshop on food safety in Ghana, India and Zimbabwe
- T. Sibanda; P Hindmarsh / Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2001
- This report compiles presentations and reports from a Crop Post Harvest Programme (CPHP) workshop on food safety post harvest. The first section offers presentations on food safety issues and street food issues in Ghana, India and Zim...
- The techniques of creating and adapting hand-drawn educational materials
- Network Learning, 2002
- This publication shows how to make small-scale, hand-drawn, educational materials which can be adapted for different uses. The publication includes an example manual written for non-literate traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in Indi...
- Child poverty and health linkages
- T. Harpham / Young Lives, 2002
- This working paper introduces the research plan of an international cohort study on child poverty and health. The study will follow up children born into poverty (plus a small number of non-poor for comparative purposes) in Eth...
- DOTS programmes must accelerate case finding to meet 2005 targets
- C. Dye; C.J. Watt; D. Bleed / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2002
- This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), summarises the most recent findings of the WHO’s tuberculosis (TB) monitoring and surveillance project, and assesses progress towards the 2005 targets ...
- Private sector role in combating HIV, TB and malaria among their workers
- Global Health Initiative, 2002
- Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The case studies are intended to be a tool to facilitate greater engagement by companies by illustrating examples of the...
- World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi)
- The WBTi is a flagship programme of IBFAN Asia that initiates a participatory assessment of the strengths and weaknesses in the 10 areas of policies and programmes meant for implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.
- Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI)
- Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) is an international foundation with the vision to improve child health and nutrition of all children in low and middle income countries through research that informs health policy and practice.
- Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC)
- Indian urban health network
- Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (AMCHSS)
- Indian centre for research and training on public health
- Social and Development Research and Action Group (SADRAG)
- Action research and development organisation focusing on gender and socio-economic issues in India
- Indian Journal of Medical Research
- Indian Medical Journal
- Indian Journal of Community Medicine
- Freely available online journal of Indian Community Medicine
- Journal of the Indian Medical Association
- The Journal of the Indian Medical association (JIMA) is now available online.
- Centre for Operations Research and Training, India (CORT)
- Reproductive health research with immediate policy relevance
- Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai
- The Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), formerly known as the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre, is a permanent research institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Originally established to to determine the feasilibility, efficacy and safety of domiciliary chemotherapy for sputum positi...
