Predatory journals solely exist for monetary profit without any commitment to publishing ethics or quality of research. Not only do they damage the reputation of individual researchers and institution...
by Shubhada Nagarkar | On 03 Mar 2021 The pandemic has inevitably prompted a spike in the coverage of science, in the form of medical research and health sciences. Will this lead to better attention to science in the media? Will it promp...
by Padma Prakash | On 30 Jun 2020 The messy, digital data-rich universe that is emerging rapidly is being nurtured and bolstered by powerful tech companies. Whatever the potential benefits for human welfare, the development is posing...
by Anurag Mehra | On 24 May 2020 The public lecture by Dr. Sarah Hodges, organised by the Forum for Medical Ethics Society with the Centre for Law and Society, School of Law, and Constitutional Governance, Centre for Public Health, S...
by Sarah Hodges | On 22 Mar 2019 National regulatory agencies (NRAs) are the gatekeepers of the supply chain of medical products such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices. It is through registration with an NRA that a manufacturer...
by Susann Roth | On 09 Oct 2018 Digital technologies are increasingly underpinning almost all aspects of daily life, including health care. But there is not yet sufficient awareness of the issues to be considered when investing in d...
by Peter Drury | On 29 May 2018 India’s health sector is characterized by modest health indicators, a paucity of medical
financing schemes that have successfully scaled, high per capita out-of-pocket health expenditure,
and very l...
by | On 06 Apr 2018 Universal health coverage, with full access to high-quality services for health promotion,
prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliation and financial risk protection, cannot be
achieved without...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 06 Apr 2018 The Preamble to The National Medical Commission Bill, 2017 lays down its
mission statement, which is to provide for a medical education system that ensures
availability of adequate and high quality...
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 23 Mar 2018 The study is conducted in the context of the decline in the number of young people in the college going age group as a result of the decrease in birth rate in the state as also in the context of the p...
by George Zachariah | On 06 Mar 2018 This article provides a systematic review of the published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become more available, computing...
by Hope Corman | On 19 Dec 2017 The authors study the effect of state medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Workers' Compensation (WC) claiming. The paper uses data on benefit claiming draw...
by Johanna Catherine Maclean | On 25 Sep 2017 WHO SEARO has sought to fulfill its vision of building a national level biomedical R&D and innovation observatory. In this report we have focused on the feasibility of establishing a national observat...
by | On 27 Jul 2017 The private healthcare sector in rural India is often dominated by unqualified rural medical practitioners (RMPs). However, there is limited evidence on RMPs and potential for an intervention to reduc...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 May 2017 The report says that the traditional and alternative systems of medicine i.e. Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy are an integral part of the health care system in I...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 17 May 2017 The report says although these MRAs share nearly identical objectives, they diverge significantly in terms of institutional structures, requirements, and procedures. Not all MRAs are created equal. Gl...
by Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza | On 09 May 2017 On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2017 it becomes important to view the level of press freedom in India in the wider context of societal freedom. The press cannot be truly free when facilitat...
by The Hoot the hoot.org | On 08 May 2017 The serious concern over quackery is a shared one, and not solely the province of allopaths, or the courts for that matter. In a plural system like ours, this is to be expected. But looking only to th...
by Devaki Nambiar | On 30 Jan 2017 A bill to create a world class medical education system that ensures high quality medical education system.
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Sep 2016 The Preliminary Report and the draft National Medical Commission Bill, 2016 is placed for seeking public opinion. Please send comments/suggestions/feedback on the draft bill latest by 31st August, 201...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 11 Aug 2016 Over the last few decades, systematic critiques of medicine and public health curricula in India
have highlighted many lapses in the inclusion of social determinants of health in medical education.
...
by Priya John | On 09 Aug 2016 Over the past few years CSR, as a concept, has been the focus of many deliberations and research. It has grown in importance both academically as well as in the business sense. It captures a spectrum...
by Ernst and Young | On 04 Aug 2016 Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. The scheme is eval...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 11 Jul 2016 In the existing narratives the wider colonial contexts of institutionalization of western science
and medicine and growth of curative medicine, changing patterns
of education and health services for...
by Sujata Mukherjee | On 01 Jul 2016 India’s expanding partnership with Afghanistan has grown into multi-sectoral activities in all parts of Afghanistan. India’s reconstruction and developmental programmes in Afghanistan follow prioritie...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 21 Jun 2016 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the State budget documents, detailed demand for grants of MoHFW and
other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gives in totality classification...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MoH&FW | On 02 Jun 2016 The aim of the Department of Health Research (DHR) is to bring modern health technologies to the people
through research and innovations related to diagnosis, treatment methods and
vaccines for prev...
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 05 May 2016 The Department of Health and Family Welfare comprises NHM Sector and Health
Sector. The various activities under the Health Sector to name a few include Pradhan
Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSS...
by N. Lalitha | On 05 May 2016 The report examines the role and functioning of Medical Council of India with the ultimate aim of suggesting veritable solutions to the inadequacies that are currently plaguing our medical education a...
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 08 Apr 2016 This report is a case study based on a preliminary comparative evaluation, which suggests that many other state medical councils can adopt practices initiated by the MMC, especially those regarding th...
by Dr. Nirmalya Bagchi | On 04 Apr 2016 The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 11 Mar 2016 This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial a...
by Greg Fischer | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper examines the performance of India’s services sector; the recent policy reforms in some important services sectors; issues and suggestions in services sector and in particular the four impor...
by H.A.C. Prasad | On 29 Feb 2016 Highlights of the budget of Japan for the year 2016.
by Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan | On 29 Feb 2016 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the States' budget documents, detailed demand for grants of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gi...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 25 Feb 2016 There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement, investments and deployment of medical professionals) in easing fiscal constraints, gener...
by Maria Cherry Rodolfo | On 25 Feb 2016 Regardless of how strong a country’s national health system is, it is only as good as its neighbours’. National borders are not able to withstand the threat posed by pandemics and infectious diseases....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 23 Feb 2016 In the upland areas of Southeast Asia, most smallholder farmers keep animals. Buffalo provide a traditional source of draught power for land preparation or transport, and animal manure is often used t...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to document the emergence and growth of FDI in health services, and to discuss its drivers, potential benefits and risks associated with this FDI, as well as policy issues...
by Zbigniew Zimny | On 13 Feb 2016 The paper attempts to analyze the role of public policy adjustments in facilitating the medical tourism sector in Asian countries in response to recent global economic events. While falling incomes ma...
by Vinay Singh | On 13 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationwide survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine variation in social capital in India across caste, tribe, and religion. Our primary measure uses...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 There is great regional variation on utilization of maternal health care services across India. While regional differences have long been established, why women in some states are more likely to utili...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 Can self-identification of occupation be applied in web surveys by using a look-up table with coded occupational titles, in contrast to other survey modes where an open format question with office-cod...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 In India an official definition of the term urban by Census is: over 5000 population; a population density of over 400 persons per sq km; over 75% of male workforce in non-primary activities. This art...
by Organising Team (MFC) | On 09 Feb 2016 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...
by Veena Das | On 09 Feb 2016 This article offers observations to Gopal Guru’s article which highlights the endemic caste discrimination in places of higher learning in India in the wake of the Rohith Vemula suicide in Hyderabad....
by Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies | On 09 Feb 2016 In honour of Krishna Raj, the legendary editor of Economic and Political Weekly, the Anusandhan Trust established the Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture series on Health and Social Sciences. This year’s lec...
by Padma Prakash | On 02 Feb 2016 In our research on science policy and inclusion and ethics in S&T policy we identified that in the Indian context Access, Equity and Inclusion (AEI) can be the norms to assess the policy outcomes and...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper examines the use of three different technological options in the Indian agriculture. It shows that support to organic farming is increasing but at this stage innovation related i...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 21 Jan 2016 This article traces the different elements that explain and help understand the phenomena of declining child sex ratios in India along with the debates on the subject, with specific focus on urban loc...
by Preet Rustagi | On 13 Jan 2016 The medical profession in India has experienced major changes in terms of woman participation in medicine. In the last few decades, the number of women joining medicine has revealed a noticeable growt...
by Rituparna Dutta | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper explores Gross National Happiness (GNH) as a framework for socio-economic development in Bhutan by elucidating GNH principles that affect the way Bhutanese society and state interact.The pa...
by Karma Ura | On 29 Dec 2015 This project will study and document these barriers in a carefully chosen sample. Privately-managed higher education institutions have been chosen for the study. This will include a study of the three...
by Parth Shah | On 18 Dec 2015 The article presents the inconsistencies in the revised Draft ART Bill of 2010, particularly with regard to provisions about surrogacy and citizenship of the babies born from a surrogate mother.
by Aastha Sharma | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper places the bio-genetic industry within the larger political economic framework of globalisation and privatisation, thus employing a framework that is often omitted from discussions on ARTs,...
by Sarojini Nadimpally | On 16 Dec 2015 Post-7th Pay Commission recommendations, the pay being offered now should not be a disincentive for public-spirited people with ability. Can the government afford this hike?
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Nov 2015 One of the causes for raised eyebrows to the Companies Act, 2013 is Section 135. The provision mandates companies meeting certain requirements to compulsorily contribute to corporate social responsibi...
by | On 06 Oct 2015 Given the ubiquity of mobile phones, their use to support healthcare in the Indian context is inevitable. It is however necessary to assess end-user perceptions regarding mobile health interventions e...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Health shocks can affect the household economy through a substantial rise in out-of-pocket medical expenditure and/or loss of income. In such a situation, households use a range of coping mechanisms t...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 14 Sep 2015 Social Sector performs an effective function in human resource development and hence it is very important to study how the
economic reforms are influencing social sector expenditures. Any economic re...
by Runa Paul | On 03 Aug 2015 This study shows that many global clinical trials organisations have relocated their clinical trial (CT) research units to India. The Indian CT industry has become one of the most cost-efficient desti...
by Dinesh Abrol | On 23 Jul 2015 This document is the third in a series of reports published by the ICRC on violent incidents affecting provision of and access to health care in situations of armed conflict and other emergencies; the...
by International Committee of The Red Cross | On 07 Jul 2015 Disability is a complex category as it is understood and interpreted in very different ways. While disability has been defined primarily in terms of medical deficit, socio-cultural constructions give...
by Nandini Ghosh | On 06 Jul 2015 Sexual violence is a significant cause of physical and psychological harm and suffering for The health concerns of survivors/victims of sexual violence, and their right to health is an issue of import...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 22 Jun 2015 This Advocates’ Guide has been developed based on the ecommendations made in the World Health Organization’s “Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services: Guidance...
by Renu Khanna | On 01 Jun 2015 Health research is the key to a well functioning and effective health sector in the country. The focus of the report is to identify major issues, areas for policy research in health sector for 12th Fi...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 22 May 2015 Over the past few years, India has seen an explosion of fertility services that promise a cure for the allegedly increasing rates of infertility. Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs), a group of...
by Resource Group for Women's Health SAMA | On 27 Aug 2014 Healthcare in developing countries is often unreliable and of poor quality, thus reducing individuals incentives to use quality health services. This paper examines an innovative approach to access to...
by Clara Delavallade | On 12 Jun 2014 CEHAT is the first institution in India to have directly engaged with the public health sector to develop
a health-system based model to respond to sexual assault. This initiative, which began in 200...
by ... CEHAT | On 04 Jun 2014 This paper examines the issues related to just,
adequate and effective compensation in cases of medical negligence and provides certain
suggestions. [IIMA W.P. No.2014-03-27].
by Anurag K Agarwal | On 22 May 2014 Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda by Dagmar Wujastyk. Oxford University Press, New York, 2012. vi + 238 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-985626-8; $35.00 (pa...
by Daud Ali | On 29 Mar 2014 In 2001, 1.458 million American families filed for bankruptcy. To investigate medical contributors to bankruptcy, we surveyed 1,771 personal bankruptcy filers in five federal courts and subsequently c...
by Himmelstein DU | On 04 Mar 2014 Contents?
Social Discrimination in Health
How to think of Discrimination?
Why Casteism Persists Even in the 21st Century?
Discrimination, Stigma and a Typology of Violence: Some Conceptual Reflect...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 08 Feb 2014 There are great opportunities for Open Access publications to advance human health, provided the medical research and publishing communities can rise to the challenges that come with them. There are m...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Jan 2014 There are great opportunities for Open Access
publications to advance human health,
provided the medical research and publishing
communities can rise to the challenges
that come with them. There a...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 02 Jan 2014 This report reviews the medical tourism industry in the Philippines. It discusses the global market for
medical tourism, analyzes the demand and supply aspects of the local industry, and identifies...
by Oscar F Picazo | On 22 Oct 2013 Little business was transacted in the Monsoon Session of Parliament as protests over the CAG audit
of coal block allocations regularly disrupted proceedings. Both houses fell significantly short of t...
by Devika Malik | On 12 Sep 2012 Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, intergenerational
occupational mobility in India is examined, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. Individ...
by Sripad Motiram | On 12 Jul 2012 A
bill
to promote autonomy of higher educational institutions and universities for free pursuit
of knowledge and innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated
growth of higher educati...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 12 Jul 2012 In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health
insurance to reduce catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.” The program...
by Victoria Fan | On 05 Jul 2012 The link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes are analyzed using a
newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the
distribution of income a...
by Norman Loayza | On 09 Apr 2012 1) Allocating budget to the measure for the real revitalization of Japan to recover Japan’s economy and society
2) Reviewing the existing budget based on the result of evaluation by the Policy Propos...
by Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan | On 28 Mar 2012 Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants
from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of “greener pastures.” This
paper scrutinizes the...
by Laurence Marfaing | On 25 Jan 2012 The pilot study is situated within the framework of understanding the functioning of the private sector in regards to policy and access to health care for the poor. It attempts to understand and explo...
by SAMA .. | On 22 Jan 2012 The Fifth Anusandhan Trust’s Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture Series on Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Sciences was held on January 5, 2011. The speakers were Dr. K. Srinath Reddy (Chairperson o...
by Hansa Thapliyal | On 29 Nov 2011 The brief is based on the experience and the success of a hospital
based Crisis Centres for women facing domestic violence in Mumbai - Dilaasa.
It is a joint initiative of the MCGM and CEHAT, establ...
by ... CEHAT | On 02 Nov 2011 Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from
an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happe...
by Srijit Mishra | On 30 Sep 2011 Review of
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee;
Fourth Estate, London;
2011, paperback, pp.572. Rs.499.
by Mohan Rao | On 18 Aug 2011 Review of
Anthropologists Inside Organisations: South Asian Case Studies
Edited by Devi Sridhar, Sage India , New Delhi; 2008, 184 pp., Rs 585.
by Dhanwanti Nayak | On 12 Jul 2011 A scientific reputation is not immediate,it is acquired over a lifetime and is akin to
compound interest—the more you have the more you can acquire. It is also very
easy to lose, and once gone, ne...
by Philip E. Bourne | On 10 Jul 2011 The relationship between health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry has become a source of
controversy. Physicians’ attitudes towards the industry can form early in their careers, but littl...
by Kirsten E Austad | On 22 Jun 2011 Alcohol industry is a
massive and growing US$150 billion
global business—have not yet received
adequate prominence in medical journals.
Indeed, attention to and scientific research
on the alcohol...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 15 Jun 2011 The development and growth of a nation greatly depends upon proper utilization of its
human resources. To utilize these resources, there is a need to convert human beings into human
resources. Since...
by P. Nayak | On 13 Jun 2011 The HPV Vaccine ‘demonstration project’ in Andhra Pradesh was suspended by the central government when people’s health organization raised questions about its conduct. The Enquiry Committee set up ha...
by Resource Group for Women's Health SAMA | On 18 May 2011 The articles in each section of this analogy of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics represents major debates on the ethics of healthcare technology- its development and its application. They cover is...
by Sandhya Srinivasan | On 03 May 2011 The excellent systematic review in this
week’s PLoS Medicine by Paul Garner and
colleagues focuses discussion on this
critical issue. Their finding of poor quality
in both the public and private s...
by Jishnu Das | On 29 Apr 2011 The paper examines the concept of negligence in medical profession in the light of
interpretation of law by the Supreme Court of India and the idea of the ‘reasonable man’. [WP No. 2011-03-03]. URL:...
by Anurag K Agarwal | On 13 Apr 2011 Current Status of the Bill: Pending URL:[http://prsindia.org/uploads/media/children%20against%20sexual%20offences.pdf].
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 25 Mar 2011 March 15, 2011: The 16-member Dr Rajinder Kumar committee, constituted by the Department of Health Research to evolve guidelines for accreditation of health research organisations has submitted its re...
by | On 15 Mar 2011 The Indian Council of Medical Research, an autonomous agency within the
Ministry of Health, was the apex organization responsible for guiding, supporting
and conducting medical research in the c...
by Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR | On 30 Jan 2011 This study aimed to explore the causes, types, and consequences of authorship conflicts among
the researchers of selected research institutions in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and suggest ways to
reduce confl...
by Hasan Shareef Ahmed | On 27 Jan 2011 Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the
composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to
prenatal care and the design of...
by Charles Blackorby | On 28 Dec 2010 Even with advanced statistical techniques
and complex modeling tools it is often
frustratingly difficult to interpret and judge
that the global estimates results
complete accuracy.
by PLoS Medicine | On 10 Dec 2010 The paper analyzes the the dynamics of gender balance in the corporate world. It examines the present scenario of leadership in this sector and the reasons of lack of female leaders.
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 30 Nov 2010 We examine why it is important to consider seemingly autonomous but more
embedded socio-political-economic aspects in assessing the impact of changes in
Science and Technology (S&T) on human capital...
by Bino Paul G.D | On 29 Oct 2010 Caesarean section rates have been increasing world-wide raising
the question of the appropriateness of the selection of cases for the
procedure. This paper examines the levels and correlates of deli...
by Udaya S Mishra | On 25 Oct 2010 The experiences of introducing the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence (SAFE) kit, which is developed to ensure correct collection of evidence in two public hospitals in Mumbai, to examine the provisions...
by Jagadeesh N | On 17 Jun 2010 The fact that statelessness as a concept is
largely absent from the medical literature has been on e of the central motivatin factor for this essay which aims for a discussion,
primarily to illustr...
by Lindsey N. Kingston | On 15 Jun 2010 The present study emphasizes on independent variable analysis in assessing gender development at the disaggregated district level to
account for problems such as the major contradiction facing this c...
by Preet Rustagi | On 03 Jun 2010 The editors stress the impact of inadequate road safety on global health, in both developed and low- and middle-income countries. "Research into the risk factors for injury from road traffic crashes,...
by PLoS Medicine | On 08 Apr 2010 The study attempts to examine why there is staff shortage of health care professionals especially the nurses in India and the impact of such migration on services like emergency preparedness, quality...
by Ann Issac | On 04 Feb 2010 The purpose of this study was to explore the role and importance of human resources for the
scaling up of health services in low income countries. In the case studies, the following have been analyze...
by Christoph Kurowski | On 28 Jan 2010 This paper focuses
on the evaluation study of door-to-door Garbage Collection (DDGC) program carried out by the
Centre for Social Studies, Surat in 2005. The study was based on
the information gath...
by Vimal Trivedi | On 06 Oct 2009 What is ghost writing? How it can be tackled?
by Plos medicine Editors | On 05 Oct 2009 How do we, as individuals, approach issues of ethics and values? Are our approaches different in our personal and professional lives? Are issues of ethics different in the financial sector? What are t...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 02 Sep 2009 The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pra...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Aug 2009 The Humanities in the 21st century has to contend with both
critique and context. It has to account as an anthropocentric, imperial discipline that not only privileged the human over other forms of...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 25 Jun 2009 Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding decisions are modelled and test has been done to predict model's predictions us-
ing...
by Seema Jayachandran | On 09 Jun 2009 The paper revolves around Anthropology and Ethical Guidelines: from a stand alone code to everyday disciplinary practice [NCRM]
by Maya Unnithan Kumar | On 06 Jun 2009 This is a Transcript of A Witness Seminar held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,London, on 9 June 1998. The Witness Seminar is a particularly specialized form of oral history wher...
by L Reynolds | On 04 Jun 2009 End stage organ failure is very distressing condition. Initially, there was only palliativetreatment for end stage organ failure such as hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Later on, the advancement...
by Viroj Tangcharoensathien | On 04 Jun 2009 The study brings out several organizational, social, cultural and political constraints, which hinder effective implementation of regulations. Lack of human resources and skills, poor allocations, del...
by Nimal Attanayake | On 04 Jun 2009 Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) is crucial for preventing maternal deaths for which the policy has been to establish First Referral Units (FRUs). Twenty seven facilities from 6 districts from each adm...
by Raman Parvathy | On 03 Jun 2009 Medicines are important in curing and preventing diseases, and hence, the ultimate goal of `Health for All’ cannot be achieved if people do not have adequate access to essential drugs. Evidences show...
by Lalitha N | On 14 May 2009 In this article hard realities of people’s health in India today, and some of the maladies of recent health
policies are examined. This is followed by core recommendations to strengthen and
reorient...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan JSS | On 08 May 2009 The study aimed at identifying social and biomedical risk factors attributable to perinatal and neonatal mortality (PN, NNM) in rural Punjab.
by Rohina Joshi | On 30 Apr 2009 This paper details the procedures adopted by the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation in procuring and supplying essential drugs to the government health care which is a positive measure in ensurin...
by Lalitha N | On 22 Apr 2009 The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic
farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of or...
by Sunantar Setboonsarng | On 22 Jan 2009 The focus of this study is to analyze the pattern and costs
of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala .
The major concerns of this paper include answers to questio...
by Zachariah KC | On 12 Jan 2009 Political will, imaginative and collaborative solutions from across the spectrum of health and social care providers are needed to address the needs of homeless individuals.
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Jan 2009 The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by appl...
by Neal S Young | On 12 Nov 2008 The policy brief describes the life stories of five people, to show the face of human face of chronic poverty. It also suggests that such life history material can be an important source of data for p...
by Martin Prowse | On 11 Nov 2008 The presence of a large number of unqualified medical practitioners in the rural areas and urban slums indicate that they provide most of the outpatient services in the private sector. Given the huge...
by Naryana K V | On 08 Jul 2008 Narco-analysis was started almost seven years back in India, and was also accompanied by the increased use of lie-detection testing used on criminals. It was not taken up by human-rights organisations...
by Amar Jesani | On 14 May 2008 Medical ethics did not become a recognized subject in the syllabus of Britain's medical schools until 1993. This Witness Seminar transcript records the development of international ethical codes, the...
by The Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine WTC UCL | On 02 May 2008 The rapid growth of the Indian media has occurred in a regulatory vacuum. Nor are there are accepted standards on the exercise of the free speech right in the Indian media. In this draft discussion no...
by Sukumar Muralidharan | On 11 Apr 2008 The Bill seeks to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 28 Feb 2008 The present study based on Gujarat provides interesting insights on medical abortion. Based on interviews with a few chemists, drug industries and the service providers, maladies in the provision of m...
by Leela Visaria | On 11 Feb 2008 People living in almost fifty percent of the districts in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic contaminated water. The economic costs imposed by arsenic-related health problems are estimated. Data from...
by Joyashree Roy | On 08 Feb 2008 When research takes place within the context of clinical care, how can we distinguish which activities constitute care, and which research? The editors of PLoS Medicine believe that open access to res...
by PLoS Medicine | On 30 Nov 2007 There are many reports of ghost writings and ghost management of medical journal articles. Such articles are “ghostly” because signs of their actual production are largely invisible—academic authors...
by Sergio Sismondo | On 17 Oct 2007 Contents
World Bank and India’s Health Sector -T.K. Sundari Ravindran 1
The Independent Peoples’s Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India 8
This is Not a Story about Binayak Sen -Subhas Gatade 9
...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 16 Sep 2007 The Broadcast media is a powerful purveyor of ideas and values and
plays a pivotal role in not only providing entertainment but also disseminating
information, nurturing and cultivating diverse opin...
by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting MIB | On 16 Sep 2007 At the end of the course in Forensic Medicine, the learner shall be able to:
1. Identify, examine and prepare report or certificate in medico-legal cases/situations in accordance with the law of lan...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Aug 2007 At the end of the course, the learner shall be able to understand the infectious diseases in terms of their etiology, pathogenesis, and laboratory diagnosis in order to efficiently treat, prevent and...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Aug 2007 At the end of the course the learner will be able to understand the general principles of drug action and handling of drugs by the body in normal individuals including children, elderly, women during...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 03 Aug 2007 At the end of the course, the learned shall be able to :
1. Know the principles of collection, handling, storage and dispatch of clinical samples from patient, in a proper manner,
2. Perform and int...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 03 Aug 2007 Detailed Objectives and curricular content in Biochemistry
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 24 Jul 2007 Detailed Objectives and curricular content in Physiology
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 24 Jul 2007 Detailed Objectives and curricular content in Anatomy.
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 24 Jul 2007 The objective of foundation course is to sensitize the learners with the essential
knowledge and skills which will lay a sound foundation for his\her pursuit of learning across the subjects throughou...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 The IIME Core Committee has developed the concept of 'Global Minimum Essential
Requirements' (GMER) and defined a set of global minimum learning outcomes, which students of the medical schools must d...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 There has been a global shift in the emphasis from discipline based curriculum to more integrated and problem based curriculum. However, considering the logistics of implementation and constrains in t...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 Some of the major problems in primary healthcare relate to training and
capacity building of health service providers in foreseeable future. It is in this
background that government set up a Task Fo...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 A law to prevent sex determination tests was passed in Maharashtra known as Maharashtra Regulation of Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1988. In 1994 the the Parliament enacted the Pre-Natal Diagn...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 05 Jul 2007 Public Health Education in India -Ritu Priya 1
Public Health Education in India - Some Reflections -Ravi and Thelma Narayan 4
A Few Additional Issues for Discussion at the MFC Meet -Anant Phadke 19
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by Medico Friend Circle | On 04 Jul 2007 This draft chapter of a reader on Health Care Case Laws in India addresses the following issues: Have reproductive rights been recognized in India? What has been the approach of the courts towards rep...
by Vijay Hiremat | On 04 Jul 2007 Review of Thomas J. Ward Jr.'s Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South.
University of Arkansas Press, 2003.
by James Seymour | On 29 Jun 2007 The concern for ethical decision-making among the regulators, social groups and managers has substantially increased since failure of some of the prominent business organizations like Shell and Enron...
by Sunil Kumar Maheshwari | On 30 May 2007 The paper discuses the need and importance of having a ethical code of ethics for research work done in the country.
by Ghanshyam Shah | On 08 May 2007 In December 2004 three news stories in the popular press suggested that the side
effects of single-dose nevirapine, which has been proven to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, had been cove...
by Gary Schwitzer | On 22 Mar 2007 Ethical codes of conduct cannot be effectively implemented in isolation and may
be enforced in several different ways. One, is to conscientise the
members of the profession to observe the rules, sec...
by Amar Jesani | On 06 Feb 2007 This review of Avishai Margalit's The Ethics of Memory (Harvard University Press, 2004. New York) explores the ethical significance of memory and forgetting, with special reference to the potential va...
by Jeffrey H. Barker | On 04 Feb 2007 Contents:
Impressions from a Rural Laboratory - Jan Swasthya Sahyog
Surgical Care for Rural India – A Perspective - George Mathew
Excessive Use of Screening and Diagnostic Tests - Anant Phadke
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by Medico Friend Circle | On 01 Feb 2007 This paper, one among a series for the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan addresses the issue of the impact of globalisation on health. How has globalisation affected different countries and who are the winners an...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 25 Jan 2007 In its launch issue in October 2004, PLoS Medicine signaled a strong
interest in creating a journal that to the social conditions in which
people live and work. The socially disadvantaged have less...
by Scott Stonington | On 23 Jan 2007 In many countries, the number of patients waiting for a kidney transplant is increasing.
But there is a widespread and serious shortage of kidneys for transplantation, a shortage that can lead to suf...
by Tarif Bakdash | On 23 Jan 2007 Social medicine is as important now as it has ever been. The fi eld of social
medicine includes various social and cultural studies of health and medicine
, and in this article, the focus is o...
by Timothy H. Holtz | On 23 Jan 2007 This essay briefl y examines some of the diverse developments of social
medicine as an academic discipline and its links to political conceptualizations of the role of medicine in society. The...
by Dorothy Porter | On 10 Jan 2007 Cultural competency has become a fashionable term for clinicians and researchers. Yet no one can defi ne this term precisely enough to operationalize it in clinical training and best practices....
by Arthur Kleinman | On 10 Jan 2007 Whether we choose to admit it or not, the anecdote continues to be an important engine of novel ideas in medicine. The anecdote is rife with such diffi culties as openness to interpretation, and...
by Rafael Campo | On 03 Jan 2007 As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insu...
by Scott Stonington | On 03 Jan 2007 Rather paradoxically the promotion of intellectual property rights, aimed at solving the incentive problem, might actually hinder innovation. This paper engages with this literature by adopting an evo...
by Dwijen Rangnekar | On 17 Aug 2006 This paper aims to bring out the need to incorporate cultural sensitivity to ensure the principle of essentiality in research processes while undertaking research among tribal populations. The author...
by Sajitha O.G | On 24 Jul 2006 Demographic research, has increasingly become field-based involving primary data collection and the nature of inquiry and its scope has widened a great deal in recent years. The ethical considerations...
by Leela Visaria | On 19 Jul 2006 If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring...
by Padmini Swaminathan | On 19 Jul 2006 Disagreements and confrontations are common among social scientists regarding conclusions obtained by two researchers on a similar premise. Such disagreements highlight two critical aspects of researc...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 19 Jul 2006 As society develops, it is important to keep ethical problems under continuing scrutiny and debate. It should also be recognized that a productive balance is between society’s need for knowledge and i...
by Pradip Kumar Bose | On 19 Jul 2006 While there is a considerable body of writing on ethics in social sciences in general, in India ethical issues need to be better debated and discussed. With over 320 universities and 30 social science...
by A. M. Shah | On 19 Jul 2006 Some questions relevant in the context of ethics in social science research are: Does social science have peculiarities which are masked by discussions on science at large? Given the need for objectiv...
by Sudarshan Iyengar | On 19 Jul 2006 By exposing the immorality and inhumanity of Nazi doctors, the courageous
resistance and dedication of Jewish doctors and the cowardly behaviour of the
International Red Cross in 'Murderous Medicine...
by Richard Weikart | On 17 May 2006 The recent judgments and orders from various levels of higher judiciary indicate a drastic shift in their outlook and approach. A close look reveals two trends developing within the judiciary. Firstly...
by M.B.Rajesh | On 31 Mar 2006 It’s healthy for news organizations to be much more open about their decision making than they have been in the past. But in response to relentless pounding from bloggers and other critics, is the tra...
by Rachel Smolkin | On 26 Mar 2006 Does a social scientist need to renounce his ethnicity in order to be objective and unbiased? The issue of how and why scholars choose their subjects and approaches has been debated for almost a centu...
by Darshan Tatla | On 15 Mar 2006 Closing Gaps to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: Roles
by Indian Council of Medical Research | On 08 Feb 2006 Central Ethics Committee on Human Research (CECHR) was
constituted under the chairmanship of Honourable Justice Shri M.N.
Venkatachaliah by the then Director General, Dr. G.V. Satyavati to consider
...
by Indian Council of Medical Research | On 08 Feb 2006 There is sufficient evidence to show that early and good quality documentation of evidence is associated with positive legal outcome and hence this area of reform in medico-legal services need to be a...
by Amita Pitre | On 20 Dec 2005 DISCOURSE OF BOOK REVIEWS
Are there universal principles of evaluating knowledge claims? The paper situates the practice of book reviewing in the normative context. Based on a personal experince , it...
by Paramjit S Judge | On 28 Aug 2005 Anthropologists work in many parts of the world in close personal association with the peoples and situations they study. In a field of such complex involvements, misunderstandings, conflicts, and th...
by Anonymous | On 12 Aug 2005 Code of Ethics for Practitioners and Professionals
by Anonymous | On 12 Aug 2005 If rational individuals pay the full costs of their decisions about food intake and exercise, economists, policy makers, and public health officials should treat the obesity epidemic as a matter of in...
by Jay Bhattacharya | On 06 Aug 2005 |