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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
(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 ...
Midwifery education within the integrated nursing and midwifery programmes in India
(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 ...
Prevention of postpartum infections using ‘Appreciative Inquiry’
(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, ...
Narasimham committee report: some further ramifications and suggestions
(2010-03-31)
This paper while agreeing with the general thrust of the Narasimham Committee Report,
calls attention to some logical corollaries of the Report and analyses some possible
fallout from implementing the Report.
We agree ...
Does working for a not-for-profit organization affect the psychology of corruption? evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
The primary purpose of this study is to examine if volunteering for Not-for-Profit Organizations (NPO) which are involved in providing social welfare services and which actively promote socio-behavioral factors like social ...
Auditors’ consideration of material income-increasing versus material income-decreasing items: are conservatism and risk affected by company level information?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
Auditors tend to focus more on income-increasing items compared to income-decreasing items because they are trained to be more conservative and also because the risk of litigation is significantly higher for failing to ...
Learning decision models with multinomial logit model through pair-wise preferences
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
Our goal is to study the behavioral process of a decision maker (DM) that leads to his choice. To this end, we combine the established models of discrete choice with the recent algorithmic advances in the emerging field ...
Attitudinal choquet integrals for strategic decision making
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02)
The compensation capabilities of Choquet integral are augmented by providing it with an additional parameter to relate the same with the complex attitudinal character of a decision maker (DM). The resulting operator is ...
Interactive discrete choice models
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
The interaction among the criteria plays an integral part in the human decision making process. We propose new logit models of discrete choice to give the choice probability, taking into consideration the interaction among ...
On the class of attitudinal discrete choice models
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
The complex human attitudinal character plays an important role in the real world decision making. To this end, we present a family of extended probabilistic discrete choice models. The attitude-based variants of multinomial ...