“if we can make this work in Bihar, we can make it work anywhere.” He also added that NEC wanted to offer healthcare services in an area where they are needed the most to create the strongest impact. The government of Bihar also has a strong desire to improve local healthcare ...
Although the Bihar government has attempted to put a lid on the exploding out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) by implementing the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) programme, delivery-related spending has been increasing in the state, as evident from the various rounds of NFHS, and the programme ...
As of May 2022, Bihar’s Health Department has 19 Model Immunization Centers and 154 Model Immunization Corners operational, with more such centers in the pipeline. Healthcare workers’ competencies and effectiveness The availability of sufficient ANMs and their rational distribution would ensure a ...
OPD workload in Government district hospitals: In India, the biggest problem in district hospitals is the patient overload in OPD (Outdoor patients department). By using mHealth / telemedicine, we can provide right timely interventions at the point of care and cut this OPD overload anywhere by...
This program combined government subsidies for toilet construction with intensive behavioral messaging through multiple channels, such as radio and television, social media, cinema, and community mobilization.54 Thus far, more than 100 million toilets have been constructed nationwide.55 However, it ...
The study aimed to conduct a content analysis of the different types of public health data maintained by the Health Department, the Department of Women and Child Development, and the private for profit and not for profit health sectors and the links that exist between them in terms of data sh...
It was co-funded through the Optimise Study via grants from the Victorian Government COVID-19 Victorian Consortium Clinical/Public Health Pillar, the Macquarie Group and the Burnet Institute. Author information Authors and Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, The Peter Doherty Institute for ...
largely because of the intensive inputs and support provided for the maintenance of the groups and due to the evolution of the self-help groups to a more institutionalized form similar to co-operatives. The experience from Bihar suggests that the ability of a self-help movement to become self...
Bihar is one of the Empowered Action Group (EAG) states, which due to their poor health indicators, have been prioritised by the Government of India for remedial action. There is an urgent need to increase uptake of antenatal services, attended delivery, essential new ...
such as the Indian Council of Medical Research, Geological Survey of India, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Chhattisgarh State Public Health and Engineering Department, Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, National Institute Technology (Raipur), have already visited the village for investigation purpos...