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Improving healthcare access to address the rise in non …

WebIn light of the changing healthcare burden for women, with a rise in mortality due to non-communicable diseases, Bhan and Shukla outline the incidence of diseases …

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Women and health in India

WebThis International Women’s Day, I4I Editorial Advisor Nalini Gulati presents a curation of economic research on women’s health in India, encompassing aspects of …

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Interim Budget 2024-25: Are we on track to achieve …

WebThe National Health Policy, 2017 set a target of increasing India’s health expenditure to 2.5% of its gross domestic product by 2025. In this post, Sayamsiddha …

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Designing India’s national healthcare protection: …

WebThe burden of non-communicable diseases, requiring costly hospital-based treatment, is increasing in India, and only 15% of the population has health insurance …

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Understanding India’s mental health crisis

WebA study revealed that in the same year, 14% of India’s population suffered from mental health ailments, including 45.7 million suffering from depressive disorders …

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The role of informal rural healthcare providers in universal …

WebThe health ministry’s current efforts of training and deploying mid-level health providers at sub-centres/health and wellness centres, if implemented properly, can …

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National Health Stack: A job half well-done

WebTo support the implementation of the recently launched National Health Protection Scheme, NITI Aayog has proposed the creation of digital infrastructure called …

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Budget 2021-22: Healthcare takes centre stage, again

WebAssessing the 2021-22 Union Budget from a health-sector perspective, Coffey and Spears contend that improving India’s health outcomes will require old solutions to old problems …

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Access to health insurance in India: Direct and spillover …

WebEffects of insurance access on uptake. A wide array of health outcomes were measured, covering outcomes reported in many prior studies ( Baicker et al. 2013, …

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Gender pay gap in India’s health workforce

WebThe sustained inequality in the sector is most clearly visible in the gender pay gap, which is 25% higher in the health workforce than in any other sector. Women in the …

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Reducing maternal mortality in India: A four-pronged strategy

WebWhile India’s maternal mortality rate declined substantially during 2004-2006 to 2014-2016, at an annual rate of 5%, the reduction is still short of what is required to …

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Mental health disparities in India

WebWhile a large, multidisciplinary literature focusses on disparities in physical health across social groups, the mental health dimension remains invisible. Analysing …

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Does India’s air pollution impact more than just health

WebColumbia University. [email protected]. Air pollution presents a significant risk to human health in India, a fact which is now widely appreciated. Less …

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Health policy and economic growth in India

WebA new synthesis paper (Menon 2017) produced by the International Growth Centre brings together evidence from various health-related IGC studies on India …

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Making menstrual health a welfare priority: Insights from three states

WebPublic policies on menstrual health have mainly focussed on distributing sanitary napkins to women and girls. However, in this note, Tanya Rana shares some …

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Food insecurity and child malnutrition: New empirical evidence …

WebChild malnutrition is among the most pressing public health issues in India today. Equally alarming is the country’s food security crisis. Analysing ‘Young Lives …

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How has the Covid-19 crisis affected the urban poor

WebWhile the devastating impact of the second Covid-19 on public health in India is well-known, there is relatively little evidence on its economic and psychological …

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The unintended child health consequences of the Green …

WebLacking credible data on birth defects, we focus on documenting health impacts among a group that is especially vulnerable to environmental insults – infants …

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Evaluating India’s maternal cash transfer programmes

WebOver the years, India has implemented several programmes to overcome the issue of poor maternal and child health which can affect long-term physical and cognitive …

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Saas, bahu, and ASHA: Information diffusion in rural Bihar

WebThe National Health Mission has resulted in substantially improved maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes in India. For instance, institutional delivery has …

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The long-term consequences of medical missions in colonial India

WebHealth outcomes vary substantially across India. Is this variation exclusively determined by present-day factors, or can it be traced back to historical events? This article studies the …

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