Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially taking into consideration the high inflation rate in the previous year. A substantive criticism is presented on allocation to HIV/AIDS, polio eradication, and leprosy control...

We examine why it is important to consider seemingly autonomous but more embedded socio-political-economic aspects in assessing the impact of changes in Science and Technology (S&T) on human capital. In capturing the linkage between S&T and human capital, as we show, the dynamics in labour...

Review of: A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage by Karen Reeds. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2001. Pp 142; $ 45. [Published on HNet, November 2005] A State of Health, like Cowen's earlier book, offers a coherent overview of New Jersey's medical history. Primarily, however,...

Strategic Issues and Challenges in Health Management Edited by V.Ramani, Dileep Mavalankar and Dipti Govil Sage Publications, New Delhi.

There is an urgent need to reassess the arguments used in favour of scaling-up private-sector provision in poor countries. The evidence shows that prioritising this approach is extremely unlikely to deliver health for poor people. Governments and rich country donors must strengthen state...

People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life expectancy decreased for many years after 1945, and the...

In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West -- as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Sen, 1992) have suggested that this imbalance reflects excess female mortality and, as a result, have...

Cultural competency has become a fashionable term for clinicians and researchers. Yet no one can defi ne this term precisely enough to operationalize it in clinical training and best practices. It is clear that culture does matter in the clinic. Cultural factors are crucial to diagnosis,...

The objective of foundation course is to sensitize the learners with the essential knowledge and skills which will lay a sound foundation for his\her pursuit of learning across the subjects throughout the M.B.B.S. Course and later in pursing his/her career in medicine.

This paper is intended to be a contribution towards the improvement of transparency and efficiency of patentability examination for pharmaceuticals inventions, particularly in developing countries. It proposes a set of general guidelines for the assessment of some of the common modalities of...