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Management Capacity Assessment for National Health Programs: A study of RCH Program in Gujarat State
(2009-08-13)
We would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India for carrying out this study.
We would like to thank the Gujarat State Department of Health and ...
Maternal health in Gujarat, India: a case study
(Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2009-11-10)
Gujarat state of India has come a long way in improving the health indicators since independence, but progress in reducing maternal mortality has been slow and largely unmeasured or documented. This case study identified ...
Maternal health financing: Gujarat's Chiranjeevi scheme and its beneficiaries
(Journal of Health,Population and Nutrition, 2009-11-09)
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 ...
Maternal health situation in India: a case study
(Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2010-11-11)
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 live births ...
Maternal Health Situation in India: A Case Study
(2009-08-03)
Maternal Health Services are one of the basic health services to be provided by nay government health system as pregnant women are one of the most vulnerable victims of dysfunctional health system, India, in spite of rapid ...
A GIS approach to plan and deliver health care services to urban poor: a public-private model for Ahmedabad city, India
(2007-11-08)
Purpose – To provide a public private partnership (PPP) model for urban health centres (UHC) in
developing countries that can be useful for urban local governments and private service providers
willing to enter into ...
How many rupees worth of medicine does One need? comparison of medicine budgets in PHCs and expenditure on medicines for government employees
(2009-12-12)
India has developed a large infrastructure for primary health care (PHC) unfortunately this infrastructure has not delivered results expected out of it. More and more clients are moving away from public to private health ...
Going to scale with professional skilled care
(2006-10-29)
Because most women prefer professionally provided maternity care when they have access to it, and since the needed
clinical interventions are well known, we discuss in their paper what is needed to move forward from ...
Health system in India: opportunities and challenges for improvement
(2006-11-01)
Purpose – The paper seeks to show that health and socio-economic developments are so closely
intertwined that is impossible to achieve one without the other.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper sees that building ...
Using ‘appreciative inquiry’ in India to improve infection control practices in maternity care: a qualitative study
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)
Background
Infections acquired during childbirth are a common cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Changing provider behaviour and organisational settings within the health system is key to reducing ...