India and Health systems
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Impact of medical tourism on access to health care in rural areas
- N. M. Vijay / Third World Network, 2007
- This article, produced by the Third World Network, looks at the impact of medical tourism in India. In this instance, medical tourism refers to the practice where people from rich nations travel to poorer countries to obtain medical c...
- Investigating how to provide community-based support for caregivers
- A. Dias; M.E. Dewey; J. D'Souza / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2008
- This paper presents the results of a trial evaluating the effectiveness of a community based intervention for persons with dementia and their caregivers. The study was conducted in Goa, on the west coast of India, and aimed to develop...
- Food assistance and HIV: a step-by-step guide to integrated programming
- Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
- This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes. It identifies key challenges to integrated HIV programming: inadequate understanding of how to address the overlap...
- Participation in microcredit programmes helps to improve access to health care
- K. S. Mohindra; S. Haddad; D. Narayana 2008
- This study examines associations between female participation in a microcredit programme in India, known as self help groups (SHGs), and their health in the south Indian state of Kerala. The study is based on information collected fro...
- Health care services in Asia cannot address the growing threat of chronic illnesses
- HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2008
- This study documents the perceptions of older people, care-givers, and health service providers in terms of knowledge of active and healthy ageing, access and quality of Primary Health Care (PHC) services. It particularly looks ...
- Testing key management interventions to improve the delivery of primary health care
- S.D. Gupta; P. C. Dash; B. Kanjilal / Indian Institute of Health Management Research, India, 2005
- This paper by the Institute of Health Management Research aims to develop and test key management interventions in order to improve the performance, efficiency and effectiveness of primary health care delivery at Hoshangabad district ...
- Preventative health care helps to increase productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lower school dropout levels
- A. Chadha; A. Mehdi; G. Malik / Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2007
- This paper examines the link between preventative health care, labour productivity and corporate profitability in India based on a survey of companies and employees from the manufacturing and service sector. Preventive health care inv...
- Political commitment is central to the success of achieving public health goals
- J. Shiffman / Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
- This Centre for Global Development brief discusses the factors that have influenced the degree to which national leaders have made maternal mortality a political priority. The brief compares five countries - Guatemala, Honduras, India...
- Allocation of sufficient public resources and policies of universal access to health care can ensure greater benefits for poor people
- O. O’Donnell; E. van Doorslaer; R. P. Rannan-Eliya / Equitap, 2005
- This paper by EQUITAP examines the benefit incidence of public health care subsidies in eleven Asian territories including India, Indonesia, and two provinces of China. Distinguishing between hospital and non-hospital care, and inpati...
- Dual policy focus on prevention and escape is needed to combat poverty
- A. Krishna / World Development, 2005
- This article, published in World Development, develops a Stages of Process methodology to analyse pathways in and out of poverty in Andhra Pradesh, India. It finds that fourteen percent of households in the 36 villages studied escaped...
- 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
