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Management capacity assessment for national health programmes: a study of RCH programme in India
(Journal of Health Organization and Management, 2009-05-03)
Purpose
– This paper aims to focus on the management capacity assessment of the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) program at the state level.
Design/methodology/approach
– Based on an extensive literature survey, ...
Study of blood-transfusion services in Maharashtra and Gujarat states, India
(2009-05-04)
Blood-transfusion services are vital to maternal health because haemorrhage and anaemia are major causes
of maternal death in South Asia. Unfortunately, due to continued governmental negligence, blood-transfusion
services ...
Maternal health in Gujarat, India: a case study
(2009-05-03)
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 livebirths ...
Maternal health situation in India: a case study
(2009-04-15)
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 livebirths
but ...
A study of blood transfusion services in Maharashtra and Gujarat states, India
(Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2009-11-11)
Blood-transfusion services are vital to maternal health because haemorrhage and anaemia are major causes of maternal death in South Asia. Unfortunately, due to continued governmental negligence, blood-transfusion services ...
Management capacity assessment for national health programmes: a study of RCH programme in India
(2009-11-11)
Purpose – This paper aims to focus on the management capacity assessment of the Reproductive
and Child Health (RCH) program at the state level.
Design/methodology/approach – Based on an extensive literature survey, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Increased mortality rate associated with chikungunya epidemic, Ahmedabad, India
(Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008-11-10)
In 2005–2006, Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean reported ≈266,000 cases of chikungunya; 254 were fatal (case-fatality rate 1/1,000). India reported 1.39 million cases of chikungunya fever in 2006 with no attributable ...