Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially … neglect of urban public health care. Importance has to be given to Millennium Development Goals that are still unmet. Health …

A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand … and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and …

Exploiting cohort and spatial variation in the exposure to the "Universal Immunization Program", I estimate the program …'s effects on child mortality and educational attainment in India. Results show that exposure to the program reduced infant …. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a …

The development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural … Health Mission that introduced village health and sanitation committees - provide a unique opportunity to study the effects … and after the introduction of village health and sanitation committees. Specifically, we examine the effect of village …

institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural Health Mission that introduced … constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of … village health and sanitation committees - to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on collective …

public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global health technology assessment facility …:[http://www.cgdev.org/files/1426240_file_priority_setting_global_health_FINAL.pdf]. …

of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …

In the mid-1980s, the Indian government embarked on one of the largest childhood immunization programs …-called "Universal Immunization Program" (UIP)in order to reduce the high mortality and morbidity among children. I examine the effect of … this immunization program on child mortality and educational attainment by exploiting district-by-cohort variation in …

Exploiting cohort and spatial variation in the exposure to the "Universal Immunization Program", I estimate the program …'s effects on child mortality and educational attainment in India. Results show that exposure to the program reduced infant …. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a …