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Mass Migration from Rural India: A Restudy of Kunkeri Village in Konkan, Maharashtra, 1961�87�17
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)
This article examines a particular village桲unkeri梚n Konkan, Maharashtra, characterized by persistent mass outmigration for over five decades, by combining a field study in 2017 with detailed ethnographic and statistical ...
Do the pre-service education programmes for midwives in India prepare confident 'registered midwives'? A survey from India
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)
Objective: The graduates of the diploma and degree programmes of nursing and midwifery in India are considered skilled birth attendants (SBAs). This paper aimed to assess the confidence of final-year students from pre-service ...
Adapting the Women's empowerment in agriculture index to specific country context: Insights and critiques from fieldwork in India
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a direct, multi-dimensional measure of women's access to resources and decision-making in various domains of agriculture. However, several challenges characterize its ...
Innovations and challenges in reducing maternal mortality in Tamil nadu, India
(International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
Although India has made slow progress in reducing maternal mortality, progress in Tamil Nadu has been rapid. This case study documents how Tamil Nadu has taken initiatives to improve maternal health services leading to ...
Maternal health situation in India: A case study
(International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
Since the beginning of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, India has accounted for at least a quarter of maternal deaths reported globally. India's goal is to lower maternal mortality to less than 100 per 100,000 livebirths ...
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency across the spectrum of glucose intolerance
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
Background: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is inversely associated with insulin resistance. We studied the prevalence of VDD across the spectrum of glucose intolerance, including normal glucose tolerance (NGT), prediabetes ...
Maternal healthcare financing: Gujarat's Chiranjeevi scheme and its beneficiaries
(International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
Maternal mortality is an important public-health issue in India, specifically in Gujarat. Contributing factors are the Government's inability to operationalize the First Referral Units and to provide an adequate level of ...
Union budget: processes and procedures
(Yojana, 2015)
(An) important reform required is the establishment of a high powered committee consisting of economists and macroeconomic managers to be in charge of preparing fiscal policy for the country similar to the proposed Monetary ...