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People’s Health Movement in India
Phadke, Anant - eSocialSciences - 2007
health care expenditure on hospitalization. About a third of the hospitalized patients either borrow money or sells assets to … pay the hospital bill. This situation of spread of new diseases due to environmental or socio-cultural degradation and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528290
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Patient Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research
Munro, Salla A; Lewin, Simon A; Smith, Helen J; Engel, … - eSocialSciences - 2007
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where it is closely associated with HIV/AIDS. Poor adherence to treatment is common despite various interventions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487832
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Delivering (sustainable) Services on Scale : Anywhere
Shukla, Prachi - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery of comprehensive health care to rural communities.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543084
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Critical Care or Gross Negligance
Nandraj, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2014
The conditions in some of the hospitals in India are very poor. There is utter callousness and disregard for the poor who are forced to seek health services. Basic health care and values of human dignity are not accorded to people after 67 years of independence. The poor condition of health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945206
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Are Patients in the Transition World Paying Unofficially to Stay Longer in Hospital? Some Evidence from Kazakhstan
Thompson, Robin; Xavier, Ana - eSocialSciences - 2010
To empirically test whether, as surveys and anedoctal reports suggest, patients are paying to stay longer in hospital …, perceived as resulting in better care (e.g. more professional attention), a unique dataset is constructed on hospital length of … on 1508 trauma and surgical patients discharged from Almaty City (the former capital of Kazakhstan) three main hospitals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505785
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Doha Declaration and Compulsory License for Access to Medicines
N, Lalitha - eSocialSciences - 2009
The Doha Declaration provides for access to medicines particularly by simplifying the compulsory licensing (CL) clause. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive review of the working of CL in the developed and developing countries with some useful case studies. [GIDR WP No. 184].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987323
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The Formation And Evolution Of Physician Treatment Styles: An Application To Cesarean Sections
Epstein, Andrew; Nicholson, Sean - eSocialSciences - 2005
-section rates across physicians within a market is two to three times greater than the variation between markets. Surprisingly …, residency programs explain less than four percent of the variation between physicians in their risk-adjusted c-section rates …, even among newly-trained physicians. Although we find evidence that physicians, especially relatively inexperienced ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528251
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The Experience of a Low Cost Diagnostic Centre (RAHAT NIDAN KENDRA ): Basic Diagnostic Services in Radiology and Pathology
Bhatt, Nimitta; Patel, Ashvin - eSocialSciences - 2011
The presentation sensitizes service givers in Voluntary Organizations (VOs) that it is possible to be financially viable if you provide services at 50% the market rates (in diagnostics) even if Consultants are paid as per market rate and the technicians are paid 25-50 per cent higher than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008783911
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The Race Against Drug Resistance
Nugent, Rachel - eSocialSciences - 2011
, global health institutions, health providers, and patients to collectively and immediately tackle the global problem of drug …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784254
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Improving Access to Mental Health Care and Psychosocial Support within a Fragile Context: A Case Study from Afghanistan
Ventevogel, Peter - eSocialSciences - 2012
Afghanistan is an example of a ‘‘fragile state,’’ characterised by a government that lacks the capacity to provide core services and basic security to its population. Improving health care within fragile states needs to focus on quick and tangible improvement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133148