Universal health coverage, economic slowdown and system resilience: Africa's policy dilemma

G Russo, G Bloom, D McCoy - BMJ Global Health, 2017 - gh.bmj.com
However, the promotion of UHC in Africa has been largely built on the optimism i 'Fiscal
space'refers to the ability of national governments to raise revenues for their health …

Pandemic response in pluralistic health systems: a cross-sectional study of COVID-19 knowledge and practices among informal and formal primary care providers in …

KD Rao, J Kaur, MA Peters, N Kumar, P Nanda - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Responding to pandemics is challenging in pluralistic health systems. This study
assesses COVID-19 knowledge and case management of informal providers (IPs), trained …

What attracts and sustain urban poor to informal healthcare practitioners? A study on practitioners' perspectives and patients' experiences in an Indian city

AA EP, GA Selvi, G Sharma… - The International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The practice of allopathic medicine by informal healthcare practitioners (IHPs) is ubiquitous
in India. However, a little is known about the patients' experiences and IHPs' perspectives …

At the margins of biomedicine: the ambiguous position of 'registered medical practitioners' in rural Indian healthcare

P Nahar, NK Kannuri, S Mikkilineni… - Sociology of health & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This analysis challenges a tendency in public health and the social sciences to associate
India's medical pluralism with a distinction between biomedicine, as a homogeneous entity …

[HTML][HTML] Improving access to medicines for non-communicable diseases in rural India: a mixed methods study protocol using quasi-experimental design

NS Prashanth, MA Elias, MK Pati, P Aivalli… - BMC health services …, 2016 - Springer
Background India has the distinction of financing its healthcare mainly through out-of-pocket
expenses by individual families contributing to catastrophic health expenditure and …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic literature review of integrated community case management and the private sector in Africa: relevant experiences and potential next steps

P Awor, J Miller, S Peterson - Journal of global health, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Despite substantial investments made over the past 40 years in low income
countries, governments cannot be viewed as the principal health care provider in many …

Perceptions of effective policy interventions and strategies to address antibiotic misuse within primary healthcare in India: A qualitative study

M Nair, N Engel, MP Zeegers… - Journal of Infection …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives Antimicrobial resistance poses a major public health threat. Despite Indian retail
sector antibiotic consumption per capita increasing by approximately 22% between 2008 …

Financial barriers and inequity in medical education in India: challenges to training a diverse and representative healthcare workforce

F Rahman, V Bhat, A Ozair, DKE Detchou… - Medical Education …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
India has been historically challenged by an insufficient and heterogeneously clustered
distribution of healthcare infrastructure. While resource-limited healthcare settings, such as …

Antibiotic dispensing practices among informal healthcare providers in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol

M Tandan, P Thapa, B Bhandari, S Gandra… - BMJ open, 2024 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction The rise of antimicrobial resistance represents a critical threat to global health,
exacerbated by the excessive and inappropriate dispensing and use of antimicrobial drugs …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding Internal and External Drivers Influencing the Prescribing Behaviour of Informal Healthcare Providers with Emphasis on Antibiotics in Rural …

S Khare, A Pathak, C Stålsby Lundborg, V Diwan… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Globally, Antibiotic resistance is a major public health concern, with antibiotic use
contributing significantly. Targeting informal healthcare providers (IHCPs) is important to …