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Human Resource Management: Issues and Challenges
(2010-07-05)
Primary health care under the panchayati raj: Perceptions of officials from Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)
The 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution has raised hoped for improving many services in rural areas by handling them over to Panchayat. Gujarat was one of the first states to implement the Panchayati Raj system ...
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 ...
Strengthening primary health care services: insights from qualitative research in West India
(2010-03-26)
Results and Implications: 1.) Acceptance of immunization is high, but needs institutionalization, through community preparation. Women are aware of vaccines(90%), but unaware of diseases, dosage, ...
Micro level planning methodology for primary health care services
(2010-03-24)
This paper describes a micro-level planning methodology for primary health care service which has been developed and tested in India. As compared to current top-down target-based planning, the methodology uses village level ...
Providing skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care to the poor through partnership with private sector obstetricians in Gujarat, India
(2009-04-15)
Problem India has the world’s largest number of maternal deaths estimated at 117 000 per year. Past efforts to provide skilled birth
attendants and emergency obstetric care in rural areas have not succeeded because ...
Saving mothers and newborns through an innovative partnership with private sector obstetricians: Chiranjeevi scheme of Gujarat, India
(2009-12-15)
Objective: To document an innovative public–private partnership between the government of Gujarat, India
and private obstetricians in rural areas that provides delivery care to the poor. Methods: This is a descriptive
analysis ...
Use of family planning during the firs year postpartum in Ahmedabad India
(2010-03-31)
Indians urban population taken together would rank as fifth largest country in the world. Dynamics of contraceptive use in this group during postpartum period is not well researched. This paper reports results of a sample ...