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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 ...
Trends of outpatient and inpatient admissions in public hospitals of ahmedabad, India over last 24 years
(2011-09-02)
This paper tries to show the trend of registration of patients (indoor & outdoor) in various medical institutes of Ahmedabad which are run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in last 24 years (1971-94). The Civil ...
Human resource issues in maternal and neonatal health in india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)
One in seven women die from complications related to pregnancy or delivery in some of the African countries, compared to one in many thousands in Europe and North America. More than 95 per cent of maternal deaths occur in ...
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 ...
An evaluation of mid-day meal scheme
(Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, 2012)
With the twin objectives of improving health and education of the poor children, India has
embarked upon an ambitious scheme of providing mid day meals (MDM) in the government and
government-assisted primary schools. ...