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    Realizing universal health coverage in India
    (Frontiers in Public Health, 2023) Nerges Mistry; Sandhya Venkateswaran; Rama Baru; Vikram Patel
    While the goals of UHC are largely common, the pathways leading to goal realization may vary across countries.
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    Health Checkup-The Changing State of Health Centres in North India
    (EPW, 2024) Jean Drèze; Reetika Khera; Rishabh Malhotra
    Contrary to a common narrative whereby public health services in India have “collapsed,” there is a general pattern of improving quality and utilisation over time. The pace of improvement, however, is far from adequate.
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    Study on Wellness Programs Offered by the Health Insurance Companies
    (International Journal of Preventive Medicine and Health, 2024) Mandayam Rangayyan Roopashree; Dixita Kapadia
    Wellness is the act of ensuring a healthy lifestyle regularly. It is a multidimensional phenomenon. There are wellness providers such as hospitals, insurance companies, diagnostics, and wellness firms. It focuses on the wellness programs offered by Indian and International health insurance companies. Both the insured and the insurer get benefit from the wellness initiatives. Wellness programs keep individuals healthy and therefore reduce the possibility of future claims. This increases the revenue of insurance companies.
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    Feasibility assessment of crowdsourcing slogans for promoting household waste segregation in India: a cross-sectional study
    (Frontiers in Public Health, 2023) Kavya Krishnan; Krushna Chandra Sahoo; Madhanraj Kalyanasundaram; Surya Singh; Asha Srinivas; Ashish Pathak; Cecilia Stalsby Lundborg; Salla Atkins; Kamran Rousta; Vishal Diwan
    IntroductionCrowdsourcing is an emerging technique to engage or access a wider set of experts and multiple stakeholders through online platforms, which might effectively be employed in waste management. Therefore, we assessed the feasibility of the crowdsourcing method to provide an alternative approach that can improve household waste segregation using an online-slogan-contest.MethodsThe contest was promoted via targeted emails to various governmental and non-governmental organizations and through social media platforms for around 4 weeks (25 days). The entries were received through a Google form. The slogans were assessed by the experts and analyzed using content analysis methods.ResultsTotal 969 entries were received from different geographic regions in India. Of that, 456 were in English and 513 in Hindi. Five themes of waste segregation emerged from the received slogans: (1) Community awareness, responsibility, and support, (2) Significance of household waste segregation, (3) Use of separate dustbins, (4) Health and well-being, and (5) Environment and sustainability.DiscussionCrowdsourcing approaches can be used by local authorities for improving waste management approaches and are recommended as these involve a wider audience within a short time frame. Moreover, this approach is flexible and integrating crowdsourcing approaches strengthens our understanding of existing waste management activities.
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    Applying the 'Candidacy' Model to understand access to key nutrition, food & health services in LMIC contexts: a qualitative study in Odisha, India
    (Food Security, 2023) Rebecca Mitchell; Jessica Gordon; Gopal Krushna Bhoi; Nicholas Nisbett
    This article investigates access to nutrition and food services in three of the Indian state of Odisha's traditionally poorer districts, where a large number of the state's most marginalised populations live.
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    Use of modern technologies for promoting health at the population level in India
    (The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, 2024) Rukman Manapurath; Deepthi Raran Veetil; Mohan S. Kamath
    Health Technology Assessment (HTA) evaluates the technologies, influencing healthcare policy and improving health outcomes
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    A public-private partnership based model for regulating out-of-pocket expenditures to strengthen primary care system
    (Int. J. Health Plan. Manag., 2022) Kaushal Kumar
    In developing countries like India, the cost of health care is largely borne by patient out-of-pocket payments. Recent studies have reported that patients skip public-funded clinics providing free consultation for distant private care providers. Some of the reasons identified for such behaviour include longer waiting times, perception regarding quality of care, etc. Therefore, optimal allocation of existing and new capacity is critical for a greater public interest. This article presents a decision-making framework towards this intent for strengthening the existing government primary healthcare network. In this article, a mixed-integer linear programing (MILP) model is developed for optimal reconfiguration of the existing government primary healthcare network to minimise patient out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE). The model involves three types of facilities: Primary Health Centre (PHC), Community Health Centre (CHC), and Private OPD (outpatient department). Implementation of the proposed model can help in reducing out-of-pocket expenditures. The optimization model proposed in the article is unique as it incorporates for the first time, patient out-of-pocket expenditure, capacity reconfiguration, and public-private partnership decisions in the primary healthcare system. A solution algorithm is also proposed for the optimization model. The model would be useful for theory development and also in policy-making.
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    Food deprivation among adults in India: an analysis of specific food categories, 2016-2021
    (Eclinical medicine, 2023) Anoop Jain; Smriti Sharma; Rockli Kim; S. V. Subramanian
    Understanding the extent to which food groups are missing from an individual's diet is essential to understanding the extent to which they are undernourished.
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    Health insurance and child mortality: Evidence from India
    (Health Economics, 2024) Anaka Aiyar; Naveen Sunder
    Although less than a third of the population in developing countries is covered by health insurance, the number has been on the rise. Many countries have implemented national insurance policies in the past decade. However, there is limited evidence on their impact on child mortality in low? and middle?income contexts.
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    An Asset-Focused Health Needs Assessment in a Rural Community in North India
    (Asia-Pac. J. Public Health, 2015) Kaaren R. Mathias; Joseph M. P. Mathias; Philip C. Hill
    Introduction. Health needs assessment (HNA) targets health resources to needs yet is rarely used in low-resource contexts such as the Indian villages. Methods. The authors combined rapid participatory appraisal (RPA) and HNA tools into 4 steps: (a) define HNA parameters, objectives, and community; (b) describe community demographics, health status, felt needs, assets, and health services; (c) analysis; and (d) design interventions considering felt needs, assets, impact potential, and organizational resources. Results. Community felt needs focused on lack of access to personal health services. Major morbidities included respiratory and diarrheal disease and maternal/child health problems. Formal anthropometry revealed high prevalence of underweight and stunting. Community assets included high land ownership, educated unmarried women, and operational government services. Conclusions. In low-resource developing country contexts with poor information systems, HNA is possible and useful. Including RPA and community participation to also assess assets resulted in programs responding to communities' needs using existing resources.