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Public–Private Partnerships in Healthcare

WEBCurrent evidence points to the mixed performance of public–private partnerships in India and globally. A detailed study of the formulation and performance …

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Mid-level Healthcare Providers : Insights from West Jaintia Hills

WEBThe experiences and challenges in health service delivery, faced by the newly created cadre known as mid-level healthcare providers or community health …

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The Making of ‘Local Health Traditions’ in India

WEBThe Indian government’s attention to the mainstreaming of traditional systems of medicine and the revitalisation of community-based local health traditions needs to …

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Seven Kinds of Deprivation That Women Face Everyday

WEBRicher states like Delhi and Haryana perform worse than poorer states. So, it is clearly not the case that increase in levels of household wealth leads to gender equality. 7) To …

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Mumbai’s Struggles with Public Health Crises

WEBThe economic catastrophe precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of the dismal public health system has actually led to the heightening of the public health …

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Environmental Injustice and Public Health in India: Towards a

WEBThis article examines the current inadequacy of environmental policies in protecting the ecology and health of the public, especially among the socially marginalised sections in …

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Hospital Network and Healthcare Access Economic and Political …

WEBThe strategies for eliminating financial barriers to medical care work well in an equitably distributed healthcare system. The paper suggests that where healthcare …

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Status of Women’s Health Insurance in India

WEBDespite the Ayushman Bharat scheme, the poorest and poor women of other social groups are minimally covered with health insurance compared to the rest of …

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Health Checkup Economic and Political Weekly

WEBThe findings of a recent survey of public health centres in five north Indian states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Rajasthan) are …

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Women’s Leadership in COVID-19 Response: Self-help Groups of …

WEBDuring COVID-19, it was recognised that the far-flung network of National Rural Livelihood Mission’s women’s self-help groups, spanning the length and breadth of …

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Insights into the Condition of Elderly in India Economic and

WEBBy 2030, the elderly will bear nearly half of the total disease burden in India. The elderly are more exposed to non-communicable diseases and chronic diseases, …

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Inequities in Access to Health Services in India: Caste, Class and

WEBDespite India's impressive economic performance after the introduction of economic reforms in the 1990s, progress in advancing the health status of Indians has …

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The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 Needs An Urgent Overhaul

WEBThe Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 is a colonial era legislation that is still used as the primary law to control a mass epidemic. The act, most recently, has been invoked by a number …

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Education and Health Expenditures in Post-bifurcation Telangana …

WEBThis article examines the trends in education and health expenditures of the two Telugu states between 2014–15 and 2022–23. In addition to the commonly used …

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Gendered Impact on Unemployment: A Case Study of India during …

WEBIndia witnessed one of the worst coronavirus crises in the world. The pandemic induced sharp contraction in economic activity that caused unemployment to rise, upheaving the …

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Twenty-five Years of the NFHS Economic and Political Weekly

WEBWhen the first NFHS (199293) data was released for further exploration of data for policy analysis, Visaria and Rajan (2009) had organised a special issue for this journal and …

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Economic Independence and Social Security among India’s Elderly

WEBGiven that a majority of India’s elderly population lacks adequate social security or old-age pension, India needs a robust social security system that addresses decisive ageing …

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