by admin | Sep 8, 2022 | Editorial
In the 75 years of its journey as an independent nation, India has made quantum leaps in improving the delivery of healthcare services for its people. Despite the progress, inequity continues to hamper health outcomes for many population groups, closely tied to their...
by admin | Aug 4, 2022 | Editorial
Non-communicable diseases account for more than half of disease burden in every state of India today. While deaths due to communicable diseases have been declining due to improving hygiene, vaccines, vector control, antimicrobials etc., the potential of milder...
by admin | Jul 6, 2022 | Editorial
Reducing financial hardship is a core function of health systems. It is the basis of the ongoing global drive to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). Out of pocket expenses (OOPE) is the most widely used surrogate indicator to assess the level of financial...
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Editorial
India’s unsung healthcare heroes, the ASHA workers, received the world’s recognition when the Director General of the World Health Organization conferred the Global Health Leaderships award for the year 2022 to India’s ‘Accredited Social Health Activists’, popularly...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Editorial
The World is One Our world is more interconnected and interdependent today than ever before. All living beings and the complex environment they live in are interconnected and interdependent. In this complex web of interconnected world, no one is safe until everyone is...
by admin | Apr 5, 2022 | Editorial
How many medical graduates do we need to train to meet the healthcare needs of India’s 1.4 billion population? While the Covid-19 pandemic brought the policy focus on health systems in general, the Ukraine war crisis brought the focus on the state of medical education...
