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Annual Meet 2016: Medico Friend Circle
Theme: Inequity in Health and Healthcare in Urban Areas.
Journal Articles
Life and Work in Jeedimetla: A Montage
The workers have to put up with poor housing and living conditions that cramp and disrupt their family lives. There is no government plan to house these workers when industrial areas like in Jeedimetl...
Title: MFC Bulletin November 2015-April 2016   |  Journal Detail
by Mithun Som | On 01 Nov 2015
Addressing Health Inequities through Community-led Advocacy in Bangalore: Experiences, Successes and Challenges
Like other cities, Bangalore suffers from fragmentation of government health services, with institutions and outreach services run by BBMP, the State Health Department, the State Medical Education d...
Title: MFC Bulletin November 2015-April 2016   |  Journal Detail
by Sudha Nagavarapu | On 01 Nov 2015
Medical Pluralism and Health Care for the Poor
The existence of medical pluralism has often been understood in terms of cultural differences in the understanding of health and disease, or as predominance of folk models of disease versus biomedical...
Title: MFC Bulletin November 2015-April 2016   |  Journal Detail
by Veena Das | On 01 Nov 2015
Urban Health Programme in Chhattisgarh State: Evolution, Progress and Challenges
A Baseline Study was conducted in 11 cities in early 2012 by the State Health Resource Centre. The survey focused on understanding utilization of maternal and child health services by urban slum popul...
Title: MFC Bulletin November 2015-April 2016   |  Journal Detail
by Priyanka Sahu | On 01 Nov 2015
Inequities in Health Services in Mumbai
In absolute terms, the MCGM has presented a budget for the year 2015-16 wherein its income is Rs. 33,000 crores and expenditure is Rs 31,000 crores. Out of this expenditure, it has allotted Rs. 2,552...
Title: MFC Bulletin November 2015-April 2016   |  Journal Detail
by Sadanand Nadkarni | On 01 Nov 2015
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Articles
Women and Urban Health Governance: A Study of Empowerment and Entitlement
Published By: MFC on eSS | Published Date: 01 Nov 2015
The ‘theory and practice of change’ that the UHRC has been fortunate to learn from first hand is that organized slum women who are trained, mentored, and supported have a greater capacity to access government services and entitlements.
Strengthening Public Health in Urban India: The Role of National Urban Health Mission
Published By: Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) | Published Date: 01 Dec 2010
This note highlights the role of population-based public health; both in preventing disease outbreaks and managing those outbreaks whenever they occur. While its importance is well recognised in developed countries that have a well functioning system in place, India is yet to gear itself up to meeti...
Institutional Arrangements in Providing Urban Health Services: Current Context and Possible Way Forward
Published By: Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) | Published Date: 01 Dec 2010
This note looks beyond the parameters of a three-tier public health care system, to the supportive institutional arrangements necessary for provision of effective and accountable services to improve health conditions of the urban poor. This policy note is exploratory, chiseling a vision of health ca...
Examining the Effect of Household Wealth and Migration Status on Safe Delivery Care in Urban India, 1992–2006
Published By: Plos One on eSS | Published Date: 01 Sep 2012
Although the urban health issue has been of long-standing interest to public health researchers, majority of the studies have looked upon the urban poor and migrants as distinct subgroups. Another concern is, whether being poor and at the same time migrant leads to a double disadvantage in the uti...
Mapping of Urban Health Facilities in Maharashtra
Published By: CEHAT-MU | Published Date: 17 Sep 2010
The objective of this research was to examine if the growth in health facilities within the cities have kept pace with growth of population. The methodology used was geographic information and mapping, using secondary data. The four cities chosen for the study are Aurangabad, Nashik, Solapur and Nag...
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