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Mosaraf Hossain on improving health outcomes in Goalpokher-I

October 23, 2015

The Islampur sub-division of the Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal (a state in India) is the most underperforming area of the state in terms of health and other human […]

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Ajith J: How school based health services can improve child health in India

October 23, 2015

School children constitute over 25% of India’s population of 1.21 billion people. School health in India is limited to sporadic screening in public schools. Private schools, where 30 million urban […]

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Jocalyn Clark: World Association of Medical Editors’ first conference—an international affair

October 6, 2015

For its first ever conference, the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) chose New Delhi, India as the inaugural location—a reflection of the global nature of medical science and publishing, […]

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Shreelata Rao Seshadri: From MDGs to SDGs—do global goals contribute to health equity?

September 30, 2015

The era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came to an end on 8 September 2015, and a new era in global milestones have been launched with the Sustainable Development Goals […]

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What can we learn from the success of the polio eradication initiative in India?

September 25, 2015

Popular opinion from many failed previous health programme implementations is that vertical programmes are resource consuming and might not be very helpful to strengthen health systems. [1] The same was […]

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Oommen C. Kurian: Dengue in Delhi—fighting an outbreak with the wrong numbers and an unwilling private sector

September 24, 2015

The current dengue outbreak in Delhi came to international prominence following the unfortunate incident of a young couple who committed suicide after their son was rejected treatment by many prominent […]

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Sharat Pandey: How can Jharkhand improve its maternal mortality rates?

September 23, 2015

Maternal death is defined as “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, […]

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Anu Sharma: Would India be prepared if there was another swine flu outbreak?

September 11, 2015

The swine flu epidemic caused by a new strain of the influenza A (H1N1) virus became a public health problem in India in 2014 for the second time in the […]

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Harish Chandra Rodda: The unaffordability of cancer treatment in India

September 10, 2015

It was estimated that nearly one million new cases of cancers will have been diagnosed in India by 2015, of which 0.67 million people are expected to die of conditions […]

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CM Munegowda: TB stigma in India—a harsh reality even after five decades of a TB control programme

September 8, 2015

In India, tuberculosis (TB) is still a major public health problem. According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates in 2013, more than 2.6 million people in India are living with TB. India […]

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