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KARNATAKA’S ROADMAP TO IMPROVED HEALTH
Webhealth at reasonable cost: (i) increase health budgets sufficientlyto substantially crowd out private spending for the most cost-effective services; (ii) re-allocate currently available funds so as to provide comprehensive coverage for the Entitlement Package; and (iii) put in place a universal health program with a
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Health Care Equity in Urban India
Web• The ‘urban health system’ is fragmented, fragile and poorly governed, with blurred lines of responsibility and accountability between multiple government agencies. This report adopts an equity orientation to urban health in India, focusing mainly on understanding and addressing the health vulnerabilities of poor and marginal groups in
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 including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Surat, Lucknow, Guwahati, Ranchi, Delhi etc., inputs from health officials in select cities, analysis of select data bases including NFHS, Census of …
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 recognition by global actors for the need for research on health systems, little attention has been given to the role played by local health systems. We aim to analyze a mixed local …
Multiple voices and stories : narratives of Health and illness
WebThe second section narrates the voices of the self in providing accounts of doing health—whether curing an illness episode, living with a chronic illness or engaging in everyday practices of health. The third section goes further by offering two contrasting examples on mental health narratives by showing where and why a narrative approach …
The Making of ‘Local Health Traditions’ in India
Webbroader health policies and debates (examples include universal health coverage (UHC) and the revitalisation of primary healthcare) to situate the former in the relevant policy and political climate in India. The second stage of review drew on peer-reviewed literature that refl ected on policies towards medical pluralism since
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 a part of its overall mandate of strengthening traditional systems of medicine. An analysis of existing policy documents and reviews reveals that LHTs have an eclectic policy history …
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 sharing their experience of working during COVID-19.1 This question resonates with several other community health workers who have been braving their lives against all odds to …
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 way countries have responded to it. For this reason, many scholars like Reyes (2020) and Horton (2020) have argued that we need to look at natural/health disasters in conjunction with the …
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 anthropology. However, recent scholarship has begun to question this statist frame. Local Health Traditions extends this discussion by focusing on the ‘marginal’ categories of medicine …
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 profession education (HPE) teaching and practice because it situates health within a broader understanding of the interdependent socio-ecological drivers of human and planetary …
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 both content and evaluation and has rightly chosen to take a very comprehensive view of the subject. In the position paper, the group has tried to address the concerns related to …
Understanding the Perspectives of Frontline Health Workers …
Web19 as well, where health workers were attacked3, stigmatized4, and overburdened with work. Thus, we at SRIJAN felt that as health workers are a cru-cial category for COVID 19 efforts such as contact tracing, commu-nity surveillance, and promotion of safe practices, it is imperative to understand their perspectives and experiences from a research
Nutrition, health and education in early years
WebAccording to the World Health Organization, nutrition plays a fundamental role from the earliest stages of fetal development across the human lifespan. Nutritious food is essential not only for survival but contributes to the person’s physical and mental well-being. In children, nutrition is pivotal. If a child is not given nutritious food from an early age it can …
REVIEW ARTICLE Epidemics and climate change in India
Web34 Public health research directions. Public health research India 9 Implications of climate change associated risks for health providers. Health providers India 39 Descriptive analysis of malaria control efforts in Odisha. Malaria Programme Odisha 53 Preparedness of health system to heat, floods and cyclones analysed using mixed methods.
Ambedkarite Lens in the COVID-19 Era: from an Body Politics …
Webcommunity health issues of the most marginalized group s. With this theorization, I hope to contribute to the conversation on how an Ambedkarite perspective is an important to ol in understanding social phenomena in the South Asian context and to encourage more such scholarship to make sense of the Covid-19 pandemic and its repercussions.
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 nutritional outcomes have felt the effect of this transformation most acutely. Traditional food systems, which have ensured food and nutritional security of communities for millennia, …
Changing Birth Practices in India: Oils, Oxytocin and Obstetrics
WebKeywords: Assam, birth practices, maternal health, social change, state Introduction In recent decades, concerted efforts by state and non-state actors to improve maternal health outcomes in India have resulted in incentivising and improving access to institutional deliveries, ante-natal care and immunisations. The National Family and
Undergraduate Public Health Curriculum for UK Medical Schools
Web3. Health services – the organisation and delivery of safe, high‐quality services for prevention, treatment, and care. Medical students need core knowledge, skills and attitudes to fulfil their public health role as doctors in the health care system. The public health‐related learning outcomes of Tomorrow’s Doctors (2009)
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 population health, through evidence based practice. Some will enhance the health of the population through taking on roles in health education or research, service improvement …
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