India and Health
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- Improving eye health for women and families in India
- G. Kothari / Community Eye Health Journal, 2009
- In the slums and rural areas of India, visual impairment, blindness, and childhood blindness are usually more prevalent. This article in Community Eye Health Journal argues that in order to improve the eye health of children and the c...
- Shaming and subsidies spur social mobilisation for improved sanitation
- Subhrendu K Pattanayak; Jui-Chen Yang; Katherine L Dickinson / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009
- This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, determines the effectiveness of a sanitation campaign that combines “shaming” (i.e. emotional motivators) with subsidies for poor households in rura...
- Using misoprostol for safe home births
- D Bishai; K. Hawkins; T. Sutherland / Future Health Systems research consortium, 2009
- According to the World Health Organization a woman dies every minute from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. This research in focus paper by Future Health Systems provides an introduction to the use of misoprostol to ma...
- Calls to prioritise mental health care for the elderly in India
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2007
- Special healthcare needs of the aged will have to be addressed by healthcare systems across the world. For older people, mental health conditions are an important cause of morbidity and premature mortality. With its devastating ...
- Is dementia in developing countries more widespread than previously thought?
- J.J. Llibre Rodriguez; C.P. Ferri; D. Acosta / The Lancet, 2008
- Studies have suggested that the prevalence of dementia is lower in developing than in developed regions. This paper investigates the prevalence and severity of dementia in sites in low-income and middle-income countries according to t...
- A policy guide to ending girl child marriage
- International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007
- Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these g...
- How to promote equity and the empowerment of women in sexual and reproductive health
- Population Council, 2008
- Women’s heightened vulnerability to HIV is influenced by some of the major inequalities between women and men in various aspects of living. This manual aims to promote critical reflection on the social construction of gende...
- Positive and negative roles of migration for the survival prospects of children in Rajasthan
- M. Unnithan-Kumar; K. McNay; A. Castaldo / Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2008
- Migration is an increasing feature which defines the lives of the rural and urban poor in India, however few studies have considered its effects on the health of migrants and their families. This paper examines the high levels of infa...
- Telphone counselling in India
- R, Khanna / KIT Development Policy & Practice, 2008
- Expanding Reproductive Health (RH) services to better address sexuality and sexual health issues continues to be challenging in many countries. There is still very little evidence for the most effective duration, content and follow up...
- Women’s empowerment, domestic violence and maternal nutritional status
- K. Sethuraman* / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
- Moderate under nutrition continues to affect 46 per cent of children under 5 years of age and 47 per cent of rural women in India. Women’s lack of empowerment is believed to be an important factor in the persistent prevalence of...
- 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...
