Tag Search: “public health”
How much do households contribute to ambient air pollution in India?
Burning solid fuels like firewood in homes for cooking, heating, and other energy services is the single largest source of air pollution exposure in India. In this post, Chowdhury, Chafe, Pillarisetti...
- Zoë Chafe Sourangsu Chowdhury Sagnik Dey Sarath Guttikunda Jos Lelieveld Ajay Pillarisetti
- 19 August, 2019
- Articles
Ujjwala 2.0: What should be done next?
Stopping the use of wood and other solid fuels for cooking and other household uses is crucial to mitigating air pollution and its staggeringly high health impacts in India. In 2016, the government an...
- Ambuj Sagar Alok Tripathi
- 22 July, 2019
- Articles
Labelled loans and sanitation investments
Rural Indian households report lack of affordability as the main reason for not having a toilet. This article investigates – through an experiment in rural Maharashtra – whether microcredit labelled f...
- Britta Augsburg Bet Caeyers Sara Giunti Bansi Malde Susanna Smets
- 15 May, 2019
- Articles
Seasonal migration and health in India: Constraints for research and practice
Seasonal migrants in India engage in temporary informal work in work environments that actively flout labour laws on wages, work hours, and living conditions. The most significant impact of this is on...
- Divya Ravindranath Divya Varma
- 25 March, 2019
- Notes from the Field
The long-term consequences of medical missions in colonial India
Health outcomes vary substantially across India. Is this variation exclusively determined by present-day factors, or can it be traced back to historical events? This article studies the long-term cons...
- Rossella Calvi Federico Mantovanelli
- 27 February, 2019
- Articles
Gender, electoral competition, and sanitation in India
The negative impact of poor sanitation is more pronounced for women than men and therefore, women have a stronger desire to improve sanitation. Analysing district-level data from 15 major Indian state...
- YuJung (Julia) Lee
- 25 February, 2019
- Articles
IGC Panel Discussion: Does Ayushman Bharat address the issues of healthcare delivery in Bihar?
A year ago, as part of the Union Budget 2018-19 speech, the government announced a new National Health Protection Scheme called Ayushman Bharat. In a panel discussion held at Patna, Bihar in December ...
- Shivani Chowdhry Kumar Das Manish Kumar Prasad
- 01 February, 2019
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National Nutrition Mission: Will it harmonise with India’s health and nutrition agenda?
India is home to 31% of all stunted children and half of all wasted children across the globe. Lately it took a major step in the direction of holistically addressing the mammoth multidimensional prob...
- Shweta Khandelwal
- 02 January, 2019
- Perspectives
The role of informal rural healthcare providers in universal health coverage
Millions of private informal healthcare providers provide essential doorstep health services to rural households in India. The law has not succeeded in reducing the informal healthcare market as there...
- Abhijit Chowdhury Meenakshi Gautham Amod Kumar
- 08 November, 2018
- Notes from the Field
Why we still need to measure open defecation in rural India
On October 2, the government will host the UN Secretary General and other international delegates at the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention, to celebrate India’s progress on ending ope...
- Payal Hathi Nikhil Srivastav
- 01 October, 2018
- Perspectives
Kerala vaccination policy: Is it feasible for other states too?
In a drastic step to ensure that all children below five years of age are fully vaccinated, the Kerala government introduced a draft health policy in February 2018, which made vaccination compulsory f...
- Kaushik Bharati
- 26 September, 2018
- Perspectives
National Health Stack: A job half well-done
To support the implementation of the recently launched National Health Protection Scheme, NITI Aayog has proposed the creation of digital infrastructure called National Health Stack. In this post, Smr...
- Smriti Mudgal Sharma
- 10 September, 2018
- Perspectives