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Indian plague epidemic: unanswered questions and key lessons
(2010-04-05)
This paper briefly recapitulates the events during the recent plague epidemic in India with specific focus on suspected pneumonic plague cases in Surat City. The paper discusses three key questions which are as yet unanswered. ...
Can PHC system in India deliver emergency obstetric Care? a management perspective on safe motherhood programme
(2010-03-28)
India has an extensive network of hospitals and health centers with a large field staff in the government sector which has been providing primary health care. Of late this infrastructure has been effective in delivering ...
Management of Blood Transfusion Services in India: An Illustrative Study of Maharashtra and Gujarat States
(2010-07-22)
Blood is a vital healthcare resource routinely used in a broad range of hospital procedures. It is also a potential vector for harmful, and sometimes fatal, infectious diseases such as HIV, HBV, and HCV. Morbidity and ...
Health system in India: opportunities and challenges for improvement
(2010-04-03)
Health and Socio-economic developments are so closely intertwined that is impossible to achieve one without the other. While the economic development in India has been gaining momentum over the last decade, our health ...
Building the infrastructure to reach and care for the poor: trends, obstacles and strategies to overcome them
(2010-07-26)
Infrastructure forms a critical part of health service delivery in any country. Availability, Accessibility, Affordability, Equity, Efficiency and Quality of MNH services highly depend on the distribution, functionality ...
Current problems of family welfare programme administration and principles and techniques of management applicable to family welfare and reproductive health programme
(2010-03-31)
We have identified several key problems in the family welfare programme. Many of these problems are not peculiar to the health programme but are problems of general administration of the Government. Hence along with specific ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...