India and Health
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- Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Asia
- E. Preble; E. Piwoz / US Agency for International Development, 2002
- In most countries in Asia, pediatric incidences of HIV/AIDS are increasing. The paper considers effective interventions which could reverse that increase, which Thailand and Cambodia have both achieved. Effective prevention of ...
- Why women are the worst affected by the stigma of AIDS
- P. Aggleton; E. Chase / Panos AIDS Programme, 2001
- Aims to assess and provide an initial analysis of the extent of perceived and enacted stigma, consider stigma in general and, more specifically, that surrounding mother-to-child transmission, and to explore what steps might be taken t...
- Decentralisation without participation: India's health policy lacks a participatory methodology
- U. Kumar / Global Development Network, 2001
- This paper focuses on the importance of decentralisation in health care provision and how community participation could become a way forward to provide health care to all, using participatory rural appraisal. The paper outlines...
- Bangladesh government must improve quality to stop flow of service seekers to India
- M. Rahman / South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000
- Report of a study exploring the phenomena of the growing number of Bangladeshi nationals seeking education and health services from various educational and health establishments in India. The report claims that absence of information ...
- Practical implications of the population ageing
- I. J. Prakash / Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 1999
- With no nation-wide registry of older people and community based data on morbidity not readily available, the absence of reliable and continuous sources of data on India makes the task of researchers difficult. Paper gives over...
- Has decentralization led to improved services?
- A. Mahal; V. Srivastava; D. Sanan / Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2000
- The paper has two main objectives. The first is to trace the progress in the process of decentralization in the provision of public services in India. The second is to test the hypothesis that decentralisation in the system of public ...
- An innovative project for the management of public hospitals through community participation in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India
- S.R. Mohanty / Global Development Network, 2000
- Ironically it was the plague scare of 1994 that woke up the sleeping health care behemoth of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. As the panic of an impending epidemic swept across western and central India, the District...
- A Sporting Chance: Tackling child labour in India's sports goods industry
- Christian Aid, 1998
- Research by Christian Aid and the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS) has found that Indian children - some as young as seven - are routinely stitching footballs for export to Britain. Boys as young as ten were also found...
- Indian experience on household food and nutrition security
- N.P. Nawani / Gender and Food Security, FAO, 1994
- Covers the production, availability and consumption of cereals, which are known to contribute around 70 percent of the energy and protein requirement and which happen to be the first objective to be attained by a poor household. The p...
- 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...
