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Health system challenges in organizing quality diabetes care for …

WEBBackground: Weak health systems in low- and middle-income countries are recognized as the major constraint in responding to the rising burden of chronic conditions. Despite …

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Flourishing amidst ecological pressures

WEBGlobally, food systems have become increasingly fragile. Environmental and social changes as well as farming practices have largely contributed to this transformation. Health and …

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Aren’t we frontline warriors

WEB‘Aren’t we frontline warriors?’ asks a community health worker in a webinar that we had organised in May 2020 where grassroots health care workers were at the centre stage …

Category: Health Go Health

Education for the anthropocene : planetary health, sustainable …

WEBOver the past few centuries, human activity has wrought dramatic changes in the natural systems that support human life. Planetary health is a useful concept for health …

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Body politics of the Indian state in the COVID-19 era: from an

WEBA health pandemic is a complex phenomenon that can’t be merely understood in biomedical terms while ignoring the socio-cultural context of how it has spread, and the …

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Health care equity in urban India

WEBThe report is based on the data drawn from detailed interactions with civil society organisations working on urban health in different cities and town across geographies …

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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 be viewed as …

Category: Medicine Go Health

Local health traditions : plurality and marginality in South Asia

WEBThe study of medical pluralism, characterised by the authoritative presence of the State in defining ‘legitimate’ inclusion and exclusion, has long been studied in medical …

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Health and physical education in NCF

WEBThe focus group of the National Curriculum Frame-work (NCF) has recognised that the curriculum design for ‘Health and Physical Education’ is very challenging in terms of …

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Exploitative informal labour process in India: a conceptualisation

WEBThis paper will be structured in the following manner. Firstly, it will introduce the concept of labour process and argue that highly exploitative informal labour processes in India …

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Multiple voices and stories : narratives of Health and illness

WEBIn the field of medical sociology/anthropology, narratives of patients are widely used as an approach to understand social reality and lived experiences. As a theoretical and …

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Female frontline community healthcare workforce in India during …

WEBSince the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), 2.6 million Anganwadi workers (AWWs) and an entire cadre of Auxiliary Nurse …

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KARNATAKA’S ROADMAP TO IMPROVED HEALTH

WEBINTRODUCTION Karnataka Roadmap 05 Government of India’s 12th.Plan document clearly lays out the priorities for the next fiveyears: (i) a focus on …

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Understanding the Perspectives of Frontline Health Workers …

WEB10 11 Understanding the Perspectives of Frontline Health Workers (ASHAs, Anganwadi workers & ANMs) in Bundelkhand Region to Improve COVID 19 -,2 ',+#,2 g-021

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Celebrating Jodha : and revisiting the commons

WEBNarpat S. Jodha (1937–2020) passed away at the age of 83 years. He is best remembered for his contribution to research on the commons and livelihoods in semi-arid regions in …

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Undergraduate public health curriculum for UK medical schools

WEB“The doctor’s role must be defined by what is in the best interest of patients and of the population served. […] All doctors have a role in the maintenance and promotion of …

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The Making of ‘Local Health Traditions’ in India

WEBSPECIAL ARTICLE 42 JULY 28, 2018 vol lIiI no 30 EPW Economic & Political Weekly (such as laboratory or clinical trials). Further, LHTs are also characterised by their …

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Health Care Equity in Urban India

WEB7 Contents 6 Abbreviations 10 List of Tables 11 List of Figures 12 Executive Summary 18 Background 27 Health Vulnerability in Urban Areas 47 Urban Health …

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Social Sciences and the National Curriculum 06 Framework

WEBmain focus should be on contemporary India. 4. Higher Secondary Stage • Assist students to explore their interests and aptitudes in order to choose appropriate university courses …

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