The country's policy towards health has been traditionally identified by the provision of primary healthcare as the states responsibility. However, the Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment Report states that at the beginning of 2000 one-sixth of the world's population was without access to...
Private hospitals and private medical practitioners play a significant part in delivering health care services in India. As the demand for health care has increased, institutions in this sector have expanded widely in both urban and rural areas. The relationship between patient and private practitioner...
摘要: This chapter describes the current public health profile and health system of India, and outlines some of the major health programmes and new initiatives that have been established to address the complex health challenges confronting the country.关键词:...
Despite many decades of independent planning and implementation most populations living in the developing world have yet to reach the utopian ideal of health for all. This editorial critically considers the issues and the situation in India to suggest alternatives. The survival of the human body is...
byPublic Health UpdateOctober 10, 2024 The World Health Organization today felicitated Bhutan for achieving interim targets for cervical cancer elimination; India for eliminating trachoma; Timor-Leste for eliminating lymphatic filariasis; Maldives and Sri Lanka for Hepatitis … ...
the public health system as well as to reduce economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive, burgeoning and unregulated private health sector. Focusing on India, this book examines how the private sector in developing countries is tapped to deliver health care services to poor and...
We provide suggestive evidence that focusing on more visible health centres boosts the incumbent party’s re-election prospects providing a clear motive for incumbent’s action. In addition, we examine the effect of election-year cycles and the role of political alignment in healthcare provision ...
IndiaAimsHealthcare utilization is a major challenge for low- and middle-income countries, especially for the publicly funded facilities. The study has tried to explore the women's opinion behind the non-utilization of public healthcare facilities in India.Subjects and methodsThis was a cross-...
For a developing country like ours, with a huge population, there is an urgent need of trained healthcare professionals who can implement the public health and nutrition programmes of the government for the upliftment of the general population. This course is thus a very important value addition...
Preventative Health CareA growing literature studies the effect of enhancing the agency relationship between political incumbents and constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of institutions of self-governance in India, and...