Tag Search: “public health”
Can safe drinking water improve children’s educational outcomes?
It is well-established that treated water has health benefits, but can it also enhance children’s educational outcomes? Analysing India Human Development Survey data, this article provides evidence in...
- Narbadeshwar Mishra Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay
- 20 February, 2024
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Improving healthcare access to address the rise in non-communicable diseases among Indian women
In light of the changing healthcare burden for women, with a rise in mortality due to non-communicable diseases, Bhan and Shukla outline the incidence of diseases in Indian states over the last two de...
- Nandita Bhan Prajakta Pradip Shukla
- 22 December, 2023
- Perspectives
Impact of India’s Mission Parivar Vikas on fertility rates and family planning
India’s large-scale family planning programme, Mission Parivar Vikas, improves access to contraception, offers monetary incentives to beneficiaries for programme adoption, and disseminates information...
- Sarthak Agarwal Somdeep Chatterjee Oindrila Dey
- 06 December, 2023
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How Prayagraj is leveraging wastewater surveillance to prevent another pandemic
This note by Agrawal and Siva outlines efforts taken by the Prayagraj district in Uttar Pradesh to collect samples from sewage treatment plants and test them for the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen. They found a ...
- Sarthak Agrawal Dr. Archana Bharadwaj Siva
- 31 October, 2023
- Notes from the Field
The ‘invisible’ disability of mental illness: Barriers to social security access
Sakshi Sharda writes about the how a lack of clarity on the assessment and diagnosis of mental health and poor implementation of social security schemes increases the vulnerability of those livings wi...
- Sakshi Sharda
- 10 October, 2023
- Perspectives
Making menstrual health a welfare priority: Insights from three states
Public policies on menstrual health have mainly focussed on distributing sanitary napkins to women and girls. However, in this note, Tanya Rana shares some insights gained from conversations with fron...
- Tanya Rana
- 05 October, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Do women leaders improve environmental outcomes? Evidence from crop fires in India
This study looks at how women leadership improves environmental outcomes. Using satellite data from India, it compares incidence of crop fires between constituencies where women narrowly won or lost e...
- Maulik Jagnani Meera Mahadevan
- 03 October, 2023
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Does India’s air pollution impact more than just health?
Air pollution presents a significant risk to human health in India, a fact which is now widely appreciated. Less well-known is a body of evidence suggesting that air pollution harms the day-to-day fun...
- Sandra Aguilar-Gomez Holt Dwyer Joshua Graff Zivin Matthew Neidell
- 11 September, 2023
- Perspectives
Impact of Bihar’s alcohol ban on intimate partner violence
This article examines the impact of a complete ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol in Bihar in 2016 on the incidence of intimate partner violence against women. Using NFHS data, it finds that a...
- Sisir Debnath Sourabh Paul Komal Sareen
- 27 July, 2023
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Designing transfer payments to reduce crop burning in India
Air pollution caused due to crop burning has severe health impacts, particularly in north India. Despite the introduction of a conditional cash transfer programme to adopt environmentally friendly pra...
- Kelsey Jack Seema Jayachandran Namrata Kala Rohini Pande
- 25 July, 2023
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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...
- Mayank Aggarwal Anindya Chakrabarti Chirantan Chatterjee
- 07 June, 2023
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Empowering patients with information to improve hospital accountability
Despite the expansion of free healthcare for the poor throughout India, many hospitals continue to charge patients out-of-pocket fees. In this study, Dupas and Jain investigate whether informing patie...
- Pascaline Dupas Radhika Jain
- 24 April, 2023
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