Issue Special Issue 5/2012
Bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy (EPHP) 2012: Strengthening health systems to achieve universal health coverage
Content (48 Articles)
How to attract health workers to rural areas? Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment in India
Krishna D Rao
Effectiveness of financial incentives for recruitment and retention of skilled health professionals for the public health system in Orissa, India
Indira Chakravarthi
Determinants of workforce availability and performance of specialists and general duty medical officers in Rajasthan, India
Manish Tiwari, Sonu Pareek
Assessment of factors influencing retention of health workforce in rural and remote areas of Odisha, India
Shridhar Kadam, Sanghamitra Pati, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, Srinivas Nallala, Nayan Chakravarty, Bhuputra Panda, Biswamitra Sahu, Abhimanyu Singh Chauhan, Shomik Ray, Sangram Swain
Decentralisation and decision space in the health sector, Karnataka, India
Shreelata Rao Seshadri, Lakshmi Hebbare, Sandesh Kotte
Analyzing power in health systems: the case of medical dominance in India
Kabir Sheikh
Planning process under the National Rural Health Mission: achievements and challenges for better implementation
Jhimly Baruah, Ritu Priya, Anuradha Jain
Governance ‘tool kits’ for universal health coverage in India: guidelines for implementing the Expert Group’s recommendations
VR Raman, Kabir Sheikh, Prasanna Saligram, Namrata Verma, Nikhil Sharma
Impact of RSBY on enrolled households: lessons from Gujarat
Tanya Seshadri, Mayur Trivedi, Deepak Saxena, Werner Soors, Bart Criel, Narayanan Devadasan
Differential financing of public health facilities
Nehal Jain, Bhavesh Jain, Prakhya Bhat, MR Mohanraju
Health system strengthening and the importance of public investment: a study of National Rural Health Mission in Bihar
Indranil Mukhopadhyay
Challenges in attaining universal health coverage: empirical findings from Rashtriya Swashthya Bima Yojana in Chhattisgarh
Sulakshana Nandi, Rajib Dasgupta, Kanica Kanungo, Madhurima Nundy, Ganapathy Murugan
Challenges in organizing quality diabetes care for the urban poor: a local health system perspective
Upendra Bhojani, BS Thriveni, Roopa Devadasan, CM Munegowda, Amruthavalli, Narayanan Devadasan, Bart Criel, Patrick Kolsteren
Defining difficult public health facilities
Jhimly Baruah, BM Prasad, Anuradha Jain
Program evaluation of the Janani Suraksha Yojna
Rajani Ved, Thiagarajan Sundararaman, Garima Gupta, Geetha Rana
HIV/AIDS and health services: misaligned policy and maligned subjects
Aalya Amin, Javaid Rashid
Determinants of Health Management Information Systems performance: lessons from a district level assessment
Amit Mishra, Itisha Vasisht, Alia Kauser, Sundararaman Thiagarajan, Dilip Singh Mairembam
Strengthening monitoring systems and inter-departmental convergence to drive program improvements
George Philip, Ashok K Singh, Madhuri Narayanan, Ragini Pasricha
Designing an information technology system in public health: observations from India
Sundararaman Thiagarajan, Pankaj Gupta, Amit Mishra, Itisha Vasisht, Alia Kauser, Dilip Singh Mairembam
Common Review Mission: reflections on a concurrent evaluation measure
Pragati Singh, T Sundararaman, Rajani Ved, Padam Khanna
Evaluation of SBA training programme in Karnataka
Devina Bajpayee, Mohan Raju
Does institutional delivery help in improving infant and child health care practices and health promotion related parameters? A study from Bellary, Karnataka
Animesh Jain, B Shantharam Baliga, Suchetha Rao, M Veera Shankar, BK Srikanth
Validating infant and maternal mortality reporting in Doddaballapur taluk of Bangalore Rural district – a pilot study
Mohan Raju
Village Health and Sanitation Committees: evaluation of a capacity-building intervention in Bagalkot and Koppal districts of Northern Karnataka
HL Mohan, Dattatreya Jere, Manjunath Dodawad, Nagaraj Ramaiah, Raghavendra Kamati, Suresh Garagatti, Ajay Gaikwad, Arin Kar, Shalini Navale, Mallika Biddappa, BM Ramesh
Arogyashreni: towards creating a replicable model for community monitoring of primary health centers in Karnataka, India
Sham N Kashyap, Ramaswami Balasubramaniam
Scale-up of community action for health: lessons from a realistic evaluation of the Mitanin program in Chhattisgarh, India
Devaki Nambiar, Kabir Sheikh, Namrata Verma
Addressing participation of women in maternal health care in light of its key knowledge correlates: findings from the Indian Sundarbans
Pratishtha Sengupta
Empowering mothers as household health workers
Tage Kanno, T Taloh, Dimong Padung
Community-based health committee initiatives in India: a descriptive analysis of village health sanitation and nutrition committee model
Heikrujam Nongyai Nongdrenkhomba, Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Biraj Kanti Shome, Achyut Chandra Baishya
Determinants of functionality and effectiveness of community health workers: results from evaluation of ASHA program in eight Indian states
Thiagrajan Sundararaman, Rajani Ved, Garima Gupta, M Samatha
Engaging traditional, complementary and alternative health providers for essential health service delivery in India: a policy analysis
Lakshmi K Josyula, Kabir Sheikh, TN Sathyanarayana, Devaki Nambiar, Venkatesh Narayan, John Porter
Nurturing nursing in India: need for governance reform
Kabir Sheikh, VR Raman, Kaveri Mayra
Strengthening support mechanisms for Accredited Social Health Activists in order to improve home-based newborn care in Uttar Pradesh, India
Dharmendra S Panwar, Vandana Naidu, Emily Das, Shalini Verma, Abrar Ahmed Khan
Public health advocacy to reinstate reproductive rights of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PTGs) in Chhattisgarh
Sulakshana Nandi, JP Mishra, Kanica Kanungo, Hemnarayan Manikpuri, Chandrakant Yadav, Gangaram Paikra, Vivek Upadhyay
Strengthening training and supervisory systems to improve Skilled Birth Assistance in Jharkhand, India
Ragini Pasricha, Manju Shukla, Madhuri Narayanan
Public Private Partnership in Meghalaya: delivering healthcare in difficult to access tribal areas
Dilip Singh Mairembam, Suchitra Lisam, Rajani Ved, Jhimly Barua, Prankul Goel, Roli Srivastava, Tushar Mokashi
Determinants of patient satisfaction in public hospitals and their remediabilities
Nikhil Prakash Gupta, Parminder Gautam, JN Srivastava
Does ‘giving’ influence governance? Application of a framework describing the role of private philanthropy in Indian national health priority setting
Devaki Nambiar, Prasanna Saligram, Kabir Sheikh
Socioeconomic differentials of neonatal mortality in Northern Karnataka: implications
Jyothi Hallad, Arin Kar, Jayanna Krishnamurthy, Prem Mony, BM Ramesh
A qualitative exploration of factors influencing site of delivery (home, public or private hospital) in three North Karnataka districts as described by pregnant women, mothers of neonates, husbands and grandmothers
Sharon Bruce, Kaveri Gurav, Andrea Blanchard, Anu Roy, HL Mohan, BM Ramesh, Lisa Avery
Business models of public private partnerships in publicly-financed emergency response services
T Sundararaman, Arun Nair, Tushar Mokashi, Gautam Chakraborthy
Pharmaceutical regulations in India: the missing links
Lalitha Narayanan
Utilization of comprehensive health insurance scheme, Kerala: a comparative study of insured and uninsured BPL households
Neena Elezebeth Philip, Kannan Srinivasan
A comparison of data sources and models to project HRH needs in India: lessons from the universal health coverage planning process
Devaki Nambiar
Evaluation of ASHA programme in Karnataka under the National Rural Health Mission
Prem Mony, Mohan Raju
Health system challenges in delivering maternal health care: evidence from a poor urban neighbourhood in South India
BS Thriveni, Upendra Bhojani, Arima Mishra, Amruthavalli, Roopa Devadasan, CM Munegowda
Interpreting the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act by primary care providers in rural Karnataka: implications on safe abortion services
Maya Annie Elias, Arima Mishra, HY Vijayashree, Mamata R Patil, MH Anil, MR Raveesha, N Devadasan, Patrick Van Dessel
‘She was referred from one hospital to another’: evidence on emergency obstetric care in Karnataka, India
HY Vijayashree, Maya Annie Elias, Mamata R Patil, MH Anil, MR Raveesha, Narayanan Devadasan, Arima Mishra, Patrick Van Dessel