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How do private players respond to public entry in pharmaceutical markets?

In 2012, the government of West Bengal outsourced the operation of key public pharmacies to private players – creating fair-price shops for selected generic medicines. How has the private sector res...

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‘स्वीट कैश’- विकासशील देशों में महिलाओं की स्वास्थ्य देखभाल सम्बन्धी ज़रूरतें

अग्रवाल एवं अन्य, स्वास्थ्य देखभाल की मांग के संदर्भ में लिंग-आधारित प्राथमिकताओं की भूमिका का पता लगाते हैं। सीपीएचएस डेटा का उपयोग करते हुए वे पाते हैं कि ईपीएफ में योगदान की अनिवार्य दरों में बदलाव...

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फिल्में किस तरह से नकारात्मकता (स्टिग्मा) और पसंद को प्रभावित करती हैं- भारतीय फार्मास्युटिकल उद्योग से साक्ष्य

हाल ही में, शैक्षिक मनोरंजन सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य मुद्दों के समाधान के लिए एक मंच के रूप में उभरा है। इस लेख में, अग्रवाल, चक्रवर्ती और चैटर्जी जांच करते हैं कि क्या फिल्में स्वास्थ्य देखभाल के प्रति नक...

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How movies impact stigma and choice: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry

Recently educational entertainment is emerging as a platform for addressing public health issues. In this article, Aggarwal, Chakrabarti, and Chatterjee investigate whether movies can destigmatise acc...

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Sweet cash: Women’s demand for healthcare in developing countries

Agrawal et al. explore the role of gender-based preferences for demand of healthcare. Using CPHS data they find that the positive income shock – generated by a change in the mandated rates of contri...

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Stewardship as the way forward in fighting global antimicrobial resistance

With the World Health Organization's emphasis on stewardship and working together against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the authors consider the importance of certain agents in preventing AMR. Looki...

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Intellectual property rights and wage inequality

Technology has become central to most everyday activities. But will incentives for technological change – such as those induced by Covid-19 – cause deeper distortions in the global economy, especi...

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Can greater access to education be inequitable?

Right to Education Act, 2009, was designed to provide the right to free, quality school education to all 6-14 year olds in India. This article examines the influence of RTE on the expansion of private...

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Only germs this time, no guns and steel (yet)?

The first round of globalisation over the previous centuries was associated with a transmission of diseases between continents. With Covid-19, history seems to be repeating itself, but this time in th...

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