available to the Government health services and care providers on a set of high-priority risk factors, with a view to improve … the quality health care and services. The survey also aimed to establish the baseline database of NCD risk factors needed … to monitor trends in population health behavior and risk factors for chronic diseases over time. This would provide …

of the western region of India. The western region for the purpose of this study covers the five states of Goa, Gujarat … demographic, educational, health-related, socio-cultural and economic spheres are identified. The methodology used is a simple …

investigate these maternal deaths, a team of medical doctors and women’s health activists undertook a visit to the area on … deaths in future. www.phm-india.org …

535 households in 60 different villages of the Jhabua district of India. The methodology of the study and its finding and …

incidence of communal violence in India is presented. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/administrator/uploads/general/1308201190 …_Vital%20Stats%20-%20Communal%20Violence%20in%20India%2014Jun11%20v2.pdf] …

The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time … in India are also chronically poor in terms of duration as well as severity (Mehta and Shah, 2002). Economic growth … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …