Tag Search: “public health”
Information provision and food safety: A field study in urban India
While street food accounts for a significant proportion of the daily food consumption of millions of people, the reliability and safety of these food supply chains remain a key public health concern. ...
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Gianmarco Daniele
Sulagna Mookerjee
Denni Tommasi
24 May, 2021
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2021 West Bengal Assembly election: Did the Covid-19 surge matter?
In the recent Assembly elections in the state of West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress bucked an anti-incumbency headwind to secure victory. Using electoral data from 2016, 2019, and 2021, Ghata...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Pushkar Maitra
12 May, 2021
- Perspectives
IGC Webinar: The impact of Covid-19 in India and pathways to recovery
The ongoing Covid-19 health crisis has affected lives across the world, and caused a massive economic shock. To help policy stakeholders and the general audience understand the socioeconomic impact of...
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I4I Team
20 April, 2021
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Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy: Trends across states, over time
Delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccine against Covid-19 despite its availability, is a key hindrance in achieving optimal vaccination coverage among populations around the globe. Using data from a ...
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Soumi Roy Chowdhury
Abhinav Motheram
Santanu Pramanik
14 April, 2021
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Book review: India’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic
The Indian government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has drawn polarising reactions, mostly set within a restrictive ‘success-failure’ metric. In this post, Oommen C Kurian reviews the book Till ...
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Oommen C Kurian
08 April, 2021
- Perspectives
Women left behind: Gender disparities in utilisation of government health insurance
Equity in healthcare is a key goal of health policy in India. Analysing administrative data from Rajasthan, this article highlights substantial gender gaps in the utilisation of subsidised hospital ca...
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Pascaline Dupas
Radhika Jain
07 April, 2021
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Understanding India’s mental health crisis
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, several reports have indicated a worsening of mental health issues among individuals across age groups. In this post, Michele Mary Bernadine examines the stat...
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Michele Mary Bernadine
06 April, 2021
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Addressing stigma and misconceptions
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic in India, there has been stigmatisation of patients and their families, and discriminatory attitudes towards marginalised groups as well as frontline workers. Based on...
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Asad Islam
Debayan Pakrashi
Michael Vlassopoulos
Liang Choon Wang
26 March, 2021
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Social identity, health networks, and health knowledge
Health knowledge, driven by education, is a critical factor for the achievement of good health outcomes. Analysing data from the Indian Human Development Survey 2004-05, this article examines how know...
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Niels-Hugo Blunch
Nabanita Datta Gupta
17 March, 2021
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A world of no lockdowns: The case of South Korea and Sweden
While most of the world was under lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, two countries, Sweden and South Korea, decided to keep their economies open. In this post, Bhatia et al. use a metric o...
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Shritanjay Bhatia
Julia Brockley
Nikita Navaneeth
Utkarsh Sikka
Isha Trivedi
Sanna Uppal
15 March, 2021
- Perspectives
Budget 2021-22: Healthcare takes centre stage, again
Assessing the 2021-22 Union Budget from a health-sector perspective, Coffey and Spears contend that improving India’s health outcomes will require old solutions to old problems – and this sort of thin...
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Diane Coffey
Dean Spears
24 February, 2021
- Perspectives
Covid-19 and other diseases: An ‘Animal Farm’ perspective
Debraj Ray and S Subramanian contend that despite the apparent sentiment of ‘we are all in this together’, the global burdens of Covid-19 and the global benefits of anti-Covid-19 policy have been skew...
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Debraj Ray
S. Subramanian
23 February, 2021
- Perspectives