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Improving healthcare access to address the rise …
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 in Indian states over the last two decades, and the role that the PMJAY programme plays to alleviate constraints to healthcare access. They note the male bias in utilisation of public-funded …
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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 maternal and child health, gendered access to healthcare, intimate-partner violence, and mental health concerns – and considers the evidence on solutions around resources, gender attitudes, …
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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 and 49 million from anxiety disorders. The Covid-19 pandemic has further accentuated this mental health crisis, with reports from across the world suggesting that the Virus and
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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 decodes the recently presented Interim Budget, with a spotlight on outlays for health programmes. In her view, the government should complement their current focus on insurance models and private …
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 data from a WHO survey conducted in six Indian states in 2007-2008, this article shows that Scheduled Castes and Muslims have worse (self-reported) mental health than upper-caste Hindus – even …
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The role of informal rural healthcare providers in universal …
WebMillions of private informal healthcare providers provide essential doorstep health services to rural households in India. The law has not succeeded in reducing the informal healthcare market as there are not enough alternatives in place to provide universal healthcare. In this note, Gautham, Kumar, and Chowdhury contend that we need to recognise the unique …
Unique Health Identification and Aadhaar: A case for …
WebAll India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has requested the Ministry of Health for a mandatory linkage between Unique Health Identification (UHID) and Aadhaar1. This seems like a simple and a straightforward suggestion but deep down it has major implications for delivery and democratisation of healthcare.
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 coverage. The Modi government recently introduced the Ayushman Bharat–National Health Protection Mission that aims to pay for tertiary healthcare for nearly 100 million families across the country. …
Son preference, maternal health, and women’s survival: A …
WebJoint role of son preference and health conditions in women's mortality: Suggestive evidence. Figure 1 demonstrates our first finding. It shows suggestive evidence that the share of women with a first-born girl who survive to older ages is the lowest (and well below the biological range, represented by the shaded area) in places with both high
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, Haushofer et al. 2020), including mental health, mortality, and several biomarker outcomes. Our primary finding is that unsubsidised sale of insurance achieves relatively high uptake
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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 National Health Stack. In this post, Smriti Sharma discusses the thinking behind National Health Stack, and whether it can help overcome the challenges faced by existing government-sponsored …
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 insights gained from conversations with frontline workers in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan which reveal the need for making more comprehensive menstrual health services available. She …
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 well-known is a body of evidence suggesting that air pollution harms the day-to-day functioning of those with no diagnosable health harms, through avenues such as impaired decision-making and
Challenges faced by community health workers in Covid-19 …
WebAlthough community health workers have been the backbone of the fight against Covid-19 in India, there has not been sufficient focus on their well-being and working conditions. Based on a survey in the Bundelkhand region, among of the poorest regions in India, Saha et al., examine the perspectives and experiences of community health workers, and the …
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 achieve the National Health Policy target. Jithin Jose proposes a four-pronged strategy to sustain and accelerate the decline, RAFT – review of medical records, death certificates or autopsy reports of …
Covid-19 and mental health: Improving women’s mental well …
WebPublic health emergencies such as Covid-19 disproportionally cause mental health problems among women due to factors such as their inferior socioeconomic position in the household, greater care responsibilities, and risk of intimate partner violence. Based on a field study in rural Bangladesh, this article shows that a low-cost telecounselling intervention can …
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Getting centre-state relations right for health in India
WebIn this article, Amanda Glassman and Anit Mukherjee examine the current centre-state relationships in the context of the health sector in India. They recommend that centre-to-state transfers should be performance-related, and should seek to, at least partly, level the playing field across states. India represents about a fifth of global disease
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 Survey’ data from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this article shows that there are sizeable negative effects of food insecurity on children’s nutrition – particularly among those towards the …
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 health workforce globally earn 28% less than men, and 34% less in India, whereas global estimates show that women across sectors are paid about 22% less than men (ILO, 2018a
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 undertaken over the past seven years, to draw implications for health policy. At a workshop organised by IGC in collaboration with Ideas for India and Indian Statistical Institute, Srinath Reddy (Public …
Early-life exposure to air pollution: Effect on child health in India
WebIt finds that children exposed to high levels of pollution in their early lives have worse child health outcomes than those exposed to lower levels of pollution. Exposure to harmful levels of air pollution causes respiratory problems in both adults and young children (Chakravarti et al. 2019, Neidell 2004), while in case of infants, in-utero
Covid-19: Health and economic impacts in Indian slums
WebInitial predictions suggested that slum communities – densely packed, with shared water taps, and an impossibility of social distancing – would be particularly hard-hit by Covid-19. In this note, Downs-Tepper, Krishna and Rains, use data from surveys in 40 slums across Bengaluru and Patna, to track the health and economic impacts of the pandemic on …
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