Browsing Working Papers by Author "Ramani, K. V."
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Basic Emergency Obstetric Care for mothers and newborns through 24 x 7 primary health centres A case study of three 24/7 PHCs from a high focus district in India
Raman, Parvathy; Sharma, Bharati; Ramani, K. V. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our ... -
Building the infrastructure to reach and care for the poor: trends, obstacles and strategies to overcome them
Mavalankar, Dileep; Ramani, K. V.; Patel, Amit; Sankar, Parvathy (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 ... -
Chikungunya Epidemic Mortality in India: Lessons from “17th Century Bills of Mortality” still relevant
Mavalankar, Dileep; Shastri, Priya; Ramani, K. V. (2009-07-25)Chikungunya is a virus spread by the bite of the Aedes mosquito, which recently reemerged as a massive epidemic in the Indian Ocean islands and India. Chikungunya is generally considered self-limiting and has been reported ... -
Chikungunya Fever:A Killer Epidemic in Ahmedabad City, India
Mavalankar, Dileep; Shastri, Priya; Parmar, Jeram; Ramani, K. V. (2009-08-22)Background: The Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus native to tropical Africa and Asia and is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes. The symptoms of Chikungunya include sudden onset of fever, ... -
Computer simulation of hospital systems
Ramani, K. V. (2009-12-14)Hospital Management is an area of considerable importance to governments health authorities and the general population. Governments all over the world are concerned about providing quality health care to their people. The ... -
Energy planning in India: relevance of regional planning for national policy
Moulik, T. K.; Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Shukla, P. R.; Ramani, K. V. (2010-03-12)This paper presents a macrolevel energy model and its application for energy planning for three States in India - namely Gujarat, Kerala and Rajasthan. In conjunction with energy modelling at national level, the Advisory ... -
Health system in India: opportunities and challenges for improvement
Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep (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 ... -
IIMA in healthcare management: abstract of publications (2000-2013)
Ramani, K. V. (2013-11-26)The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), was established in 1961 as an autonomous institution by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Gujarat and Indian industry. IIMA’s involvement ... -
Impact of computerisation in Indian railways
Ramani, K. V. (2010-07-27)Indian Railway was one of the first few government departments to introduce computers in the country. Computerisation on Indian Railways started in the late 60s with the induction of IBM 1401s in the nine zonal railways, ... -
Implementing a Public Private Partnership Model for Managing Urban Health in Ahmedabad
Patel, Amit; Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Agarwal, Anurag K.; Maiya, Shilpa; Nayak, Beena (2009-08-03)Governments in many developing countries acknowledge they are facing difficulties in their attempt to meet the basic health needs of their populations. They rely on contracting out to private (for-profit and not-for-profit) ... -
Management Capacity Assessment for National Health Programs: A study of RCH Program in Gujarat State
Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep (2009-08-13)We would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India for carrying out this study. We would like to thank the Gujarat State Department of Health and ... -
Management of Blood Transfusion Services in India: An Illustrative Study of Maharashtra and Gujarat States
Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Govil, Dipti (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 ... -
Managerial Challenges in Addressing HIV/AIDS: Gujarat State AIDS Control Society (GSACS)
Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Tirupati, Devanath; Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2009-07-30)The spread of HIV/AIDS is not merely a problem of public health; it is also an economic, political, and social challenge that threatens to hinder decades of progress in different parts of Gujarat. There is an urgent need ... -
Maternal Health Situation in India: A Case Study
Vora, Kranti S.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Ramani, K. V.; Upadhyaya, Mudita; Sharma, Bharati (2009-08-03)Maternal Health Services are one of the basic health services to be provided by nay government health system as pregnant women are one of the most vulnerable victims of dysfunctional health system, India, in spite of rapid ... -
Mid Day Meal Scheme: Understanding Critical Issues with Reference to Ahmedabad City
Deodhar, Satish Y.; Mahandiratta, Sweta; Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Ghosh, Sandip; Braganza, Vincent S. J. (2009-08-13) -
Midwifery education within the integrated nursing and midwifery programmes in India
Sharma, Bharati; Hildingsson, Ingegerd; Johanson, Eva; Ramani, K. V.; Christensson, Kyllike (Indian Institute of Managment, Ahmedabad, 2014)Staff nurses (nurse-midwives) in India are expected to provide normal birth services in health facilities under the maternal health strategy of the National Rural Health Mission. Under the integrated nursing and midwifery ... -
Mortality impact evaluation of chiranjeevi scheme of government of Gujarat
Mavalankar, Dileep; Parvathy, Sankara Raman; Ramani, K. V. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The maternal mortality ratio of Gujarat was 148/100,000 live births in 2009 (SRS, 2011a) and the infant mortality rate 41/1000 live births in 2011 (SRS, 2011b). The government of Gujarat announced Chiranjeevi Yojana in ... -
Planning the activities of doctors in a teaching hospital
Roy, Debjit; Narang, Sahil; Ramani, K. V. (2013-11-26)Doctors in a teaching hospital perform a variety of teaching, research, seminar, and in-patient care activities in addition to managing outpatient volumes. In this paper, we study the weekly activities of a doctor in a ... -
Prevention of postpartum infections using ‘Appreciative Inquiry’
Sharma, Bharati; Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Kanguru, Lovney; Hussein, Julia (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)The objective of the present study was to explore how infection rates in study hospitals were affected by an intervention in six intervention hospitals in Gujarat, India. Infection control practices, human resource management, ... -
A Public Private Partnership Model for Managing Urban Health: A Study of Ahmedabad City
Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Patel, Amit; Mehandiratta, Sweta; Bhardwaj, Rohini; Joshi, Diptesh (2009-07-25)Urbanization is an important demographic shift worldwide. India’s urban population of 300 million represents 30 % of its total population; with the slum population in urban cities registering a 5 % growth in the last few ...