BACKGROUND: Given the expanding range of health influencing factors, increasing
expectations from the health systems, and general challenges such as insufficient …

Background: Health systems, particularly in low-and middle-income countries, are
commonly plagued by poor access, poor performance, inefficient use and inequitable …

Civil society groups today are honored and relied on by governments, as well as tightly
regulated and scrutinized for challenging state policies and agencies. In contemporary India …

Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive
health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state …

ABSTRACT Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) is a participatory process in which citizens
gather evidence on services to hold governments accountable to their commitments …

This book sheds light on social policies in six South Asian countries introduced between
2003 and 2013, examining the ways in which these policies have come about, and what this …

Rights‐based approaches have become prevalent in development rhetoric and
programmes in countries such as India, yet little is known about their impact on development …

This paper engages critically with the global assemblage framing sickle cell and
thalassaemia disorders as a 'global health crisis'; and the promise of genomics, largely DNA …

As human rights frameworks increasingly pervade health development policy, planning and
programmes globally, and most markedly in countries of the South, there is a growing sense …

Evolving knowledge of genetics and improved clinical care have re-shaped life choices for
those suffering from chronic, incurable conditions and their families. Yet the realisation of …