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Time is right for the big healthcare push in India
Apr 05, 2024

Time is right for the big healthcare push in India

Infrastructure deficits and a lack of awareness about available healthcare benefits remain significant obstacles to achieving universal health coverag

Breaking barriers: Gender, health rights and climate change at crossroads
Apr 05, 2024

Breaking barriers: Gender, health rights and climate change at crossroads

Adopting holistic approaches to address the interlinkages between health and other gender-sensitive SDG targets is key to achieving equitable and sust

National Health Policy 2017: Addressing the "fragmentation" challenge
Apr 07, 2017

National Health Policy 2017: Addressing the "fragmentation" challenge

While recognising the role of private providers, NHP 2017 calls for harnessing the private sector through strategic purchase of secondary and tertiary

Immunisation coverage: India far away from meeting targets
Apr 06, 2017

Immunisation coverage: India far away from meeting targets

Immunisation coverage under national programmes is an important indicator to track advancement towards child health-related SDGs.

An assessment of India’s readiness for tracking SDG targets on Health and Nutrition
Feb 14, 2017

An assessment of India’s readiness for tracking SDG targets on Health and Nutrition

India’s endeavour to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a well-defined and time-bound manner is critical for national and global development. This paper examines India’s data availability to assess the SDGs related to health and nutrition. While India is still facing severe challenges of generating disaggregated information on mortality and cause-specific deaths, the desired data on nutrition and healthcare utilisation are la

India as a leading power: Shaping the development narrative at home and abroad
Apr 07, 2017

India as a leading power: Shaping the development narrative at home and abroad

India needs to be disaggregated at least to the district level to resolve some of its key challenges.

India’s Family Planning Mission Puts Burden of Sterilisation on Women at the Cost of Their Health
Apr 07, 2022

India’s Family Planning Mission Puts Burden of Sterilisation on Women at the Cost of Their Health

World Health Day: Between 2008 and 2019, only 3 per cent of all 51.6 million sterilisations done in India were vasectomies