Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The flagship programmes of the UPA government in the social sector have had little impact. Spending has been between 25 and 75 per cent in many schemes like the Indira Awas Yojana, the rural housing scheme, the rural electrification scheme and the rural health programme. Irrigation statistics have come under …
The National Rural Health Mission was introduced as a flagship scheme of the United Progressive Alliance government in 2005-06 to address the needs of the rural population through an architectural correction of the health system. With the completion period drawing to a close in 2012, this paper critically evaluates the …
THE Uttar Pradesh government has issued show-cause notices to about 150 surgeons for not performing any surgery in the past three months. Most surgeons who received the notices were from Allahabad, Sitapur and Kanpur. The state has set a target of at least 50 surgeries a month for all government …
KOLKATA, 3 FEB: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to bear the travel cost of pregnant women of the Sunderbans after it was found that most of these women shied away from attending hospitals for their delivery as they are located in far-flung areas. Senior state health officials …
The Government of Andhra Pradesh has invested in the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme as a means to reduce burdensome health expenses incurred by the state
Newborn deaths account for 57% of deaths in children younger than 5 years in Pakistan. Although a large programme of trained lady health workers (LHWs) exists, the effectiveness of this training on newborn outcomes has not been studied. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-based intervention package, principally …
India has a severe shortage of human resources for health. It has a shortage of qualified health workers and the workforce is concentrated in urban areas. Bringing qualified health workers to rural, remote, and underserved areas is very challenging. Many Indians, especially those living in rural areas, receive care from …
The National Health Policy (NIH), 2002 envisages that keeping in mind the availability and spread of allopathic graduates in their jurisdiction, state governments would consider the need for expanding the pool of medical practitioners to include a cadre of licentiates of medical practice, as also practitioners of Indian systems of …
The lack of skilled service providers in rural areas of India has emerged as the most important constraint in achieving universal health care. India has about 1.4 million medical practitioners, 74% of whom live in urban areas where they serve only 28% of the population, while the rural population remains …
JAIPUR: The healthcare service delivery system in the country and that of Rajasthan in particular came up for a dissection on Friday during a seminar jointly organised by the Indian Institute of Health Management and Research and CUTS International. While Prof VS Vyas, deputy chairman of the state planning commission …
BALASORE: Balasore district which had topped the State for 100 per cent implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), is in the news for wrong reasons again. Though the district health authorities took the credit for spending money disbursed for various works under NRHM, the reality is different at …
The Panchayat and Rural Development Department has issued directives to all district collectors and Chief Executive Officers of all district Panchayats to constitute
Delivery of healthcare services to the rural population through mobile phones could could be the cheapest medium to penetrate the bottom of the pyramid and Public Private Partnership could be the best way to make this happen.
Contrary to the widespread belief of increasing inequality in the health sector, this paper observes that economic status-related inequality in inpatient care utilisation has declined in recent years. However, a lowering of inequality has not made the situation more equitable for the poor because of a high increase in the …
The absence of first level healthcare facilities and the high cost of treating even routine illnesses are the immediate problems in the existing healthcare system as also the fact that high costs do not necessarily imply reliability of treatment. No insurance scheme or altruistic healthcare providers can address these problems. …
Absence of a viable business model prevents conversion of the huge rural expenditure on health into an economic activity that generates incomes and dethrones India as the world
