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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 ...
Going to scale with professional skilled care
(2006-10-29)
Because most women prefer professionally provided maternity care when they have access to it, and since the needed
clinical interventions are well known, we discuss in their paper what is needed to move forward from ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...