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Progress and challenges of health sector: a balance sheet
(2009-12-12)
Considerable progress has been made in improving the health status of the population over the last half-century. Despite this impressive progress, many challenges remain. The life expectancy is still 4 years below world ...
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 ...
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 ...
Provision of Reproductive Health Services to Urban Poor through Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of Andhra Pradesh Urban Health Care Project
(2009-08-13)
Andhra Pradesh had initiated the Urban Slum Health Care Project to provide basic primary healthcare and family welfare services to urban poor living in slums in 2002. As of now, the project has established 192 Urban Health ...