Launched in 2005, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is the Government of India's (GOI) largest public health programme.Using government data, this brief reports on NRHM expenditures along the following parameters: overall trends in fund allocation and expenditure: GOI and States,...

This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS updates regarding confirmed attendance of clinic staff and activities to randomly selected cell phone-owning households in the local community. A difference-in-difference...

Availability of nurses in the rural health centres is a major concern in India. The numbers of nurses are not sufficient to meet the health care needs. In this paper we make an attempt to examine the current situation of the nursing workforce in the public health sector in rural India. We find...