A5051336120- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Global Health Care Issues
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Global Health and Surgery
- Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
2012-2024
In recent years, technology has been increasingly incorporated within healthcare for the provision of safe and efficient delivery services. Although this can be attributed to benefits that harnessed, digital potential exacerbate reinforce preexisting health disparities. Previous work highlighted how sociodemographic, economic, political factors affect individuals’ interactions with systems are termed social determinants [SDOH]. But, there is a paucity literature addressing intrinsic design,...
In this paper, we draw upon and build on three presentations which were part of the plenary session 'Structural Drivers Health Inequities' at National Conference Inequities in India: Transformative Research for Action, organised by Achutha Menon Centre Science Studies Trivandrum, India. The discussed influential role played globalisation neoliberalism shaping economic, social political relationships across developed developing countries. paper further argues that twin process liberalisation...
Regulation is essential to health systems and central advancing equity-oriented policy objectives in health. Regulating new medical specialties an emerging, yet underexplored, aspect of sector governance low- middle-income countries (LMICs), such as India. Limited research exists regarding how regulatory institutions India decide what should be formally recognized training programmes for these organized. Understanding functions provides a lens into policymakers envision the role broader...
The regulation of medical education and health professionals is an important aspect the governance systems. This has been area concern institutional weakness in many low middle-income countries (LMICs) including India.1 2 In 2019, Indian government addressed long-standing demand to reform by dismantling Medical Council India (MCI), a regulatory body formed during preindependence era, established new institution, National Commission (NMC).3 NMC comes at crucial phase for sector, where reforms...
ABSTRACT This contribution joins the debate on politics of global health, and specifically inequality in health. Focusing three recent pertinent reports, it examines two opposing perspectives for dealing with this inequality. Driven by financial crisis, one perspective attempts to validate intervention capital through markets, technology research funding health; promotes a uniform model universal health care based medical insurances, public–private partnerships dominant private sector. The...
The crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India and elsewhere has required putting enormous amounts of resources prevention, control treatment, on one hand, social welfare livelihood programmes other. health sector was largely unprepared tackle pandemic, policies had be made real time deal with evolving situation. Despite scale response, seen a rapid rise cases; as September; it more than 800,000 active cases, third position terms total cases first new globally12. Waiting for herd immunity...
Medical specialization is a key feature of biomedicine, and growing, but weakly understood aspect health systems in many low- middle-income countries (LMICs), including India. Emergency medicine an example medical specialty that has been promoted India by several high-income country stakeholders, the Indian diaspora, through transnational institutional partnerships. Despite rapid evolution emergency comparison to other specialties, this seen fragmentation stakeholder network divergent...
Abstract The complex relationship between globalization and health calls for research from many disciplinary methodological perspectives. This editorial gives an overview of the content trajectory interdisciplinary journal ‘Globalization Health’ over first six years production, 2005 to 2010. findings show that bio-medical population perspectives have been dominant but social science become more evident in recent years. types paper published also changed, with a growing proportion empirical...
The health workforce is hierarchical in structure terms of skill mix and social composition. Most the studies on are focused number personnel public sector. private sector that has a large presence employs significant percentage total work force but there little reliable data numbers involved. This largely due to lack regulation services. Apart from involved both sectors, few have shown relationship between hierarchy While more diverse backgrounds affirmative policies, ownership mostly...
The Public Report on Health (PRoH) was initiated in 2005 to understand public health issues for people from diverse backgrounds living different region specific contexts. States were selected purposively capture a diversity of situations better-performing states and not-so-well performing states. Based these considerations, six - the Tamil Nadu (TN), Maharashtra (MH) Himachal Pradesh (HP) Madhya (MP), Uttar (UP) Orissa (OR) selected. This is report study using food diaries assess intakes...