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Technology could improve access to healthcare but stringent data protection measures must safeguard people’s health records
Mumbai's public healthcare sector is approaching exhaustion. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), despite its untiring efforts to provide affordable healthcare through its general hospitals and peripheral centres.
The G20 has over the years influenced the growth trajectory of global digital health by ensuring international cooperation between different stakehold
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As the frequency of climate-related disasters rise, there is a greater need for a compounded cooperative approach within the global community
Perhaps for the first time in the history of India’s health policymaking, multiple agencies are moving in a closely coordinated manner.
Across the globe, more than 730 million women report ever having experienced some form of gender-based violence; those in low- and lower-middle-income countries are disproportionately affected. In the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has only increased the incidence of violence suffered by women in the hands of their intimate partners, owing to heightened stresses of loss of livelihood, disruption of social and protective networks, a
Bringing Universal Health Coverage centre-stage will prove too ambitious for many countries without co-opting the private sector.
Ebola is not just an “African health problem.” The threat of the virus entering countries like India is real.
The advances of science and technology are outpacing existing care and payment models, regulatory structures, and other governance systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already made inroads into healthcare. The increasing availability of healthcare data has allowed for the deployment of powerful AI techniques to assist drug development as well as clinical practice. These run the gamut from machine learning (ML) techniques that analyse structured data, to natural language processing (NLP) that can extract meaningful information from unstructured data, such as doctors’ notes. Thi
India needs to act now by enhancing its programme effectiveness and reach.
India is prioritising access to affordable, high-quality healthcare services through recent government policies, reflecting a strong commitment to hea
A crisis of these proportions call for a combination of basic practices, innovative measures, and radical thinking.
At a time when countries are closing borders and curbing migration, health workers are the exception.
India should embrace the idea of a family health ID that can help in extending benefits of healthcare interventions to all.
Femtech would prove to be a crucial tool in helping women access healthcare and empower them
More research is needed to understand the barriers that Indian companies are facing in China.
The disturbing trends seen in women’s mental health call for immediate gender mainstreaming action in mental health policies
Universal health coverage is really a health system issue. It is not a scheme, it is not a programme — it has much to do with all aspects that go in
With India looking forward to its G20 presidency in 2023, it becomes a vital actor in pushing international health reforms
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, reforming the global health governance system has become a key area of concern for the G20 and other multilateral platforms. This comes at a time when the world has increasingly become volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. As a grouping of developed and developing countries, the G20 must prioritise addressing global health challenges by identifying its direct and indirect determinants. This brief
Global institutions should adopt a rights-based paradigm that focuses on strengthening health systems and access to healthcare rather than securitised
Efforts are being made on a global scale to improve public health. One of the ini tiatives to attend to the many problems and challenges in the public health sect or is the creation of the Health Impact Fund (HIF).
By some accounts, the economy is doing spectacularly well. At the same time, infrastructure has been deteriorating.
The impact of high economic growth on health and nutrition outcomes in Gujarat has been mixed.
The progress made through the Jal Jeevan Mission has laid a robust foundation for a transformative shift in public health dynamics, yet the journey to
While India is still in its nascent stages in the evolution of its health data ecosystem — it is important to diagnose some of the early challenges
While the Health Index 2018 accords a favourable position to Chhattisgarh in terms of annual incremental performance, the state ranks 12th in terms of
Besides strengthening existing initiatives, the G20 could consider eight new measures to advance digital health across its member states
