India and Health systems
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New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Pro-poor strategies for financing and delivering health services in mixed health systems
- D Donika; S Sealy; S Bergkvist / Results for Development Institute, 2009
- In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care. In these &ldq...
- The context, challenges and strategies for the stewardship of mixed health systems
- G Lagomarsino; S Nachuk; S Singh Kundra / Results for Development Institute, 2009
- In low-resource settings, a mix of public and private health providers are needed in order to ensure that health services are available to meet the needs of a population. This report from the Results for Development Institute highligh...
- Reducing poverty among elderly Indians would lead to significantly reduced disability rates
- M.K. Pandey / Australia South Asia Research Centre, 2009
- In India, more than one quarter of the Indian aged population (age 60 upwards) is disabled. Age-specific disability rates and the severity of disablement increases with age. Indian data also suggests that that 40 percent o...
- How well developed is health insurance in India?
- R. Ahuja / Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2004
- In general, health insurance is not well developed in India. A major part of total health spending in the country takes the form of private, out-of-pocket spending which is clearly regressive in nature. This paper by ICRIER argues tha...
- Health systems in Uttar Pradesh
- D. Peters; K. Rao; G.N.V Ramana / Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2004
- Uttar Pradesh, with 170 million people is India’s most populous state. Socioeconomic inequalities in health outcomes are large within India overall, but more pronounced in Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states. This study by the...
- How to include the perspectives of persons with disabilities in the project cycle management
- C. Naughton (ed) / Make Development Inclusive: mainstreaming disability in development cooperation, 2008
- Although one in five of the world’s poorest people are disabled, disability itself has not been included in world leaders’ plans to meet the millennium development goals. This manual is designed to be used during the proje...
- 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...
- Methods to measure the quality of medical advice in low-income countries need improvement
- J Das; J Hammer; K Leonard / World Bank, 2008
- This paper from the World Bank provides an overview of recent work on measuring the quality of medical care in four low- and middle-income countries: India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe methods of testing an...
- Impact of medical tourism on health services for local populations
- S. M. Wolfe / Public Citizen, 2006
- This article published by the Public Citizen Health Research Group, is the first in a two part series that focuses on medical tourism – travelling with the express purpose of obtaining health services abroad. The article describ...
- The costs of medical tourism to India’s rural poor
- M. Meleigy / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007
- This news article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that whilst India’s medical tourism sector is a growing source of foreign exchange, the government is under pressure to find ways to make the ...
- 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.
- Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
- Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) formerly known as Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions, is a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), located at Noida, near India’s capital city of New Delhi. CSDMS is committed to advocacy and developing solutions for under-privileged societies through the use of innovative and effective Information and Commun...
- Community Health Cell, Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA)
- Karnataka-based organisation working for community health, awareness and action
- 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
- Indian Institute of Health Management Research, India (IIHMR)
- Improving health through better management of healthcare programmes
