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the World Health Organization (WHO) should be encouraged and supported to take a more prominent role in improving the …Poor quality essential medicines, both substandard and counterfeit, are serious but neglected public health problems … differences between public health and intellectual property approaches to the problem. It is argued that public health, and not …
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The recommendations that follow take cognizance of the extraordinary opportunities that India offers – and the possibility for India to take a lead in introducing a well-designed UHC system that is eminently suited to the needs and resources of countries at a similar level of development....
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one point and draw out implications from it for actionable policies to reduce child mortality. The one point is: â …€œthere is a world of difference between the proximate causes of a child’s death and policies that can influence these …
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framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …
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The current paper is an attempt to capture the process of child development along the age continuum of 0 to 11, with special reference to children living in diverse poverty situations.
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, maternal mortality rates, among other, the author also reviews the inter-district performance of Maharashtra in health …This paper focusses on the current health profile of the state of Maharashtra, and its performance as against other … growth driven states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. Using parameters such as birth rate, death rate, infant mortality rate …
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The study aimed at identifying social and biomedical risk factors attributable to perinatal and neonatal mortality (PN …
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and health indicators. Quantile regression analysis is used to identify the impact of determinants at different parts of …
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In this paper three diseases- malaria,diabetes and rotavirus- selected because of their contrast. The paper examines the severity of their presence in developing countries and suggests viable solutions.
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Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...
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