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An Assessment of the Qualityof Primary Health Care in India

by Timothy Powell-Jackson; Arnab Acharya and  Anne mills Economic and Political Weekly, May 11, 2013 There is limited evidence on the quality of primary health care provision in India. Using data on the availability of inputs from a nationally representative survey of primary health centres, a composite measure of structural quality of care for primary [...]

Healthcare Inequity and Physician Scarcity:Empowering Non-Physician Healthcare

by Abhishek Sharma; Elissa ladd and M.K. Unnikrishnan Economic and Political Weekly, March 30, 2013 The massive scarcity of physicians in India, mainly in rural areas, prompted the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to propose a three-and-a-half year Bachelor of Rural Health and Care degree designed exclusively to serve rural populations. The fierce [...]

INDIAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS DECEMBER 2012,VOLUME 49,NUMBER 12

ARTICLES Hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effect of selected gourd vegetables on type ii DIABETICS RADHAPRIYA,D. AND LAKSHMI,U.K. Mineral profile of wheat flour and wheat flour biscuits fortified with sorghum and soy flour VEENU SANGWAN AND SAROJ DAHIYA Nutritional quality of weaning foods enriched with caseinophosphopeptides JAYASHRI HIREMATH,PRATHIMA,B.K. AND ROOPADEVI,G. Fruit and vegetable consumption patteren among adolescent [...]

INDIAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS NOVEMBER 2012,VOLUME 49,NUMBER 11

ARTICLES 1. Effect of cauliflower greens supplementation on blood haemoglobin levels on anaemic adolescent girls VASANTHAMANI,G. AND LINCY,P. 2. Effect of defatted soy  flour on health problems of obese post-menopausal women ANITHA,V. AND PATRICIA TRUEMAN 3. Estimation of nutritional aspects of artificially and naturally ripened citrus lemon REKHA,R.AND  GOWRI SANKAR,D. 4. Studies on the effectiveness [...]

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR HEALTH CARE IN PUNJAB

by NIRVIKAR SINGH This study examines the current state of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in health care in Punjab, and possibilities for new kinds of initiatives in this broad category of institutional arrangements. Health care outcomes in India are below the levels that might be expected even at India’s specific level of development. The Indian government [...]

China’s latest revolution: Basic health care for all

ILO_ONLINE China’s latest revolution: Basic health care for all On 6 April 2009, China unveiled an action plan for a radical and ambitious health-care reform aimed at attaining universal health insurance coverage by 2020. Three years later, the country has almost reached this goal. What’s the secret behind the success? URL:http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/insight/WCMS_188582/lang–en/index.htm?shared_from=media-mail Courtesy: ILO

The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics,Vol.49(7),July 2012

Original Articles Nutrient content and total antioxidant activity in brahmi,moringa,amla,dried powders and formulation of value added recipes BY JANCI RANI.P.R AND SAROJINI.K.S. Academic performance and school adjustment of juvenile diabetics BY PRIYA WADAWADGI,KASTURIBA.B.RAMA NAIK AND SARAWATI HUNSHAL Impact evaluation of “quick cooking food mix” on nutritional status of institutional status of institutionalized elderly BY KOMAL [...]

European Economic Review,Vol.56(4),May 2012

CONTENTS Debt shifting and ownership structure By Dirk Schindler, Guttorm Schjelderup Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU’s regional policy By Sascha O. Becker, Peter H. Egger, Maximilian von Ehrlich A dynamic analysis of the demand for health insurance and health care By Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw Ageing, [...]

Journal of Economic Perspectives,Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring 2011

CONTENTS Symposium: Constraining Healthcare Costs The (Paper)Work of Medicine: Understanding International Medical Costs (pp. 3-25) by David M. Cutler and Dan P. Ly The Pragmatist’s Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research (pp. 27-46) by Amitabh Chandra, Anupam B. Jena and Jonathan S. Skinner Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Spending Growth (pp. 47-68) by Katherine Baicker and Dana [...]

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Vol. 34, No. 2 Summer 2012

Contents Editorial Redesigning Long-term Care Finance and Delivery Joan Costa-Font, Martin Karlsson, and Bernard van den Berg Submitted Articles Why Do People Let Their Long-term Care Insurance Lapse? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study Yong Li and Gail A. Jensen Market Structure, Competition from Assisted Living Facilities, and Quality in the Nursing Home Industry [...]

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics Volume 114, Issue 2 , June 2012

Original Articles Risk Aversion and Trade-Union Membership (pages 275–295) Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg Risky Sex in a Risky World: Sexual Behavior in an HIV/AIDS Environment (pages 296–322) Andréa Mannberg Inadequate Bivariate Measures of Health Inequality: The Impact of Income Distribution (pages 323–333) Kjell Arne Brekke and Snorre Kverndokk Pollution, Private Investment in Healthcare, and [...]

Journal of Income and Wealth, Volume 33, No: 2, July-December 2011

Contents 1)      Integrated Economic Statistics for Implementing 2008 SNA A. C. Kulshreshtha 2)      Health and Education Accounts Tarunbala 3)      Health Care Output: A Framework towards Measurement Subhendu Chakrabarthi 4)      An Improvement to Labour Input Method: The Case of Health Care Services Suparna Pal 5)      Analysis of Social Sector Spending across States over Time in India [...]

Journal of Health Management, March 2012; 14 (1)

Articles ♦     A3 Process: A Pragmatic Problem-Solving Technique for Process Improvement in Health Care Manimay Ghosh ♦      Financial Protection in Health Insurance Schemes: A Comparative Analysis of Mediclaim Policy and CHAT Scheme in India Sukumar Vellakkal ♦     Measuring the Customer-Perceived Service Quality in Health Care Organization: A Case Study Sunil C. D’Souza and [...]

DEMOGRAPHY INDIA, VOLUME 39, NUMBER 2, JUL-DEC 2010

CONTENTS 1)      Population Studies and Public Health: The Linkage Arvind Pandey 2)      Population Transitions Since 19th Century: Where do they Lead Us? P. S. Nair 3)      Use of Antenatal Care Services in Mizoram K.C. Lalmalsawmzauva and D. K. Nayak 4)      Factors Associated with Childhood Morbidity in Bengladesh: Study on Two Major Diseases – ARI and [...]

Tertiary Healthcare within a Universal System:Some Refl ections

by Anand Zachariah EPW March24,2012 Tertiary care plays an important role in determining the structure of the healthcare system and universal access to it. Breaking away from western-oriented tertiary care medical knowledge, a number of issues have to be rethought to define tertiary care in the Indian setting that can be provided by the existing [...]

Health Care Financing Reforms in India

by M Govinda Rao and Mita Choudhury NIPFP Working Paper No.2012-100, March 2012 It is very widely acknowledged that health is an important component of human development. Empowerment of people comes from the freedom they enjoy, and this includes, among others, freedom from poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and freedom to work and lead a healthy [...]

International Journal of Health Services, Volume 41, Number 3 / 2011

CONTENTS Employment and Health How Do Macro-Level Contexts and Policies Affect the Employment Chances of Chronically Ill and Disabled People? Part I: The Impact of Recession and Deindustrialization Paula Holland, Bo Burström, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Espen Dahl, Ben Barr, Lotta Nylén, Wen-Hao Chen, Karsten Thielen, Kjetil A. van der Wel, Stephen Clayton, Sharanjit Uppal [...]

The Effectiveness of Health Screening

Franz Hackl Martin Halla Michael Hummer and Gerald J. Pruckner Discussion Paper No. 6310 January 2012 Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals’ health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used  regional variations in the intensity of [...]

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