Month: February 2012
Addressing Human Resources Challenges in Global Health – A Perspective from India
By Dr. Arun Jithendra and Nachiket Mor 1 Given the critical role that providers play in healthcare, human resources remains one of the most important challenges in healthcare in both developed and developing countries. And, this problem is made more ...
Is Managed Care at all a Possibility in Developing Countries? – A Perspective from Thanjavur
By Nachiket Mor and Karthik Tiruvarur 1 Developing country environments are characterized by acute shortages of both financial and human resources for healthcare as well as by a high burden of infectious diseases. In the recent past a large and ...
'Catastrophic Payments and Impoverishment Due to Out-of-Pocket Health Spending' – A critique
By Karthik Tiruvarur, Assistant Vice President Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal source of financing healthcare in India and this fact has important consequences for household living standards. The paper “Catastrophic Payments and Impoverishment Due to Out-of-Pocket Health Spending” by ...
SughaVazhvu launches its 5th Rural Micro Health Centre
By Zeena Johar, President – ICTPH With 80% of Indian Healthcare managed by the private sector, primarily unorganized, defined the core problem SughaVazvhu set out to answer. Delivering standardized, evidence based care was the solution SughaVazhvu set out to deliver ...
- Field experiences – Optimizing Data collection process with increased accuracy of collected data using field agents from remote field areas
- Literature review – Understanding the patient’s perception about chronic diseases and conditions, Barrier for non-adherence and poor follow-up.
- Broad-Base Primary Healthcare
- Primary Healthcare – The Missing Link for Rural Indian Populations
- Conceptualizing our Bridge Training Program – My Journal
