As Zika emerges as a clear threat, India’s disease-surveillance and disease-control architecture is confronted with the puzzle of solving the curious combination of microcephaly and day-feeding mosquito menace.
While ODF status on paper is an achievement, premature ODF status declaration has its own set of adverse consequences.
As seen in the Chinese case, the vaccine manufacturers have not only lost trust domestically but also internationally.
More research is needed to understand the barriers that Indian companies are facing in China.
Timely interventions ensured prompt caring of the infected and prevented the spread.
The phase of mandatory approvals and vastly expanded scope under the rulebook heralds a new era for the regulation of medical devices.
While TCAM (Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine) and modern medicine stay as separate watertight compartments in theory, in practice, things have been quite different.
In this era of exciting developments in the health sector, where NHM is going to be the mainstay of the Ayushman Bharat through the NHPS initiative which will take India closer to the UHC ideal, health policy is too important to be left to bureaucrats ...
Nagaland needs a sociopolitical vision on health governance.
It is an opportune time to assess and take stock of the progress as well as the roadblocks confronted by the public healthcare sector. The challenge for the next government will be to find innovative and implementable healthcare delivery solutions.
Tripura needs to put considerable efforts to improve its public health infrastructure and services on which a majority of its people depend — the coming assembly elections offer an opportunity.
The impact of high economic growth on health and nutrition outcomes in Gujarat has been mixed.
Himachal Pradesh’s health and nutrition challenges are compounded by severe human resource constraints in the public sector. The earlier gains of the state are at the risk of being wiped out.
There is indeed no room for complacency while dealing with China, but as a big market for Chinese goods, that should not prevent India from using China to its advantage.
Moscow's Healthcare Department is closely working with the Information Technology Department since 2011 to achieve the goal of providing high quality citizen services.
While recognising the role of private providers, NHP 2017 calls for harnessing the private sector through strategic purchase of secondary and tertiary care to fill critical gaps in the care provision in the public sector.
Immunisation coverage under national programmes is an important indicator to track advancement towards child health-related SDGs.
Numbers project a very progressive picture of Manipur, but they fail to capture some of the key issues around health outcomes, coverage and infrastructure in the state.
David Petraeus is a retired United States Army general. ...
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