On the continuum of maternal health care, two extreme situations exist: too little, too late
(TLTL) and too much, too soon (TMTS). TLTL describes care with inadequate resources …

Building upon the successes of Countdown to 2015, Countdown to 2030 aims to support the
monitoring and measurement of women's, children's, and adolescents' health in the 81 …

Background Universal health coverage has been proposed as a strategy to improve health
in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, this is contingent on the …

Methods: PUBMED was used to identify primary research, systematic reviews, and narrative
reviews published before Jan 2017. Search terms included antibiotic resistance …

Background Existing studies of the quality of tuberculosis care have relied on recall-based
patient surveys, questionnaire surveys of knowledge, and prescription or medical record …

Background It is increasingly apparent that access to healthcare without adequate quality of
care is insufficient to improve population health outcomes. We assess whether the most …

Objective To describe the frequency and factors associated with antibiotic use in early
childhood, and estimate the proportion of diarrhoea and respiratory illnesses episodes …

Despite the high coverage of directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS), tuberculosis
(TB) continues to affect 10.4 million people each year, and kills 1.8 million. High TB mortality …

INTRODUCTION In rural India, health care providers without formal medical training and self-
declared “doctors” are sought for up to 75% of primary care visits. The frequent use of such …

AYUSH, an acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and
Homeopathy represents the alternative systems of medicine recognized by the Government …