Health insurance in India: what do we know and why is ethnographic research needed

T Ahlin, M Nichter, G Pillai - Anthropology & medicine, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The percentage of India's national budget allocated to the health sector remains one of the
lowest in the world, and healthcare expenditures are largely out-of-pocket (OOP). Currently …

Social determinants of respiratory health from birth: still of concern in the 21st century?

A Bush, CA Byrnes, KC Chan, AB Chang… - European …, 2024 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Respiratory symptoms are ubiquitous in children and, even though they may be the
harbinger of poor long-term outcomes, are often trivialised. Adverse exposures pre …

[PDF][PDF] Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

MC Arcaya, AL Arcaya… - … Panamericana de Salud …, 2015 - SciELO Public Health
Individuos de diferentes orígenes, grupos sociales y países gozan de diferentes niveles de
salud. En este artículo se define y se distingue entre desigualdades en salud inevitables y …

Health care and equity in India

Y Balarajan, S Selvaraj, SV Subramanian - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to
socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket …

[图书][B] Transnational reproduction: Race, kinship, and commercial surrogacy in India

D Deomampo - 2016 - books.google.com
Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents,
Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the early 2010s India was one …

Assessment of tobacco consumption and control in India

P Mohan, HA Lando, S Panneer - Indian Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Tobacco consumption is a huge public health issue in India and its impact is especially
devastating among the poor. Effective tobacco control should be a top priority, both as a …

Prevalence of anemia among reproductive women in different social group in India: cross-sectional study using nationally representative data

N Sharif, B Das, A Alam - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background The common cause of anemia in the general population is iron deficiency.
Anemia is adversely affecting women of reproductive age and child health which in turn …

Variation in cognitive functioning as a refined approach to comparing aging across countries

V Skirbekk, E Loichinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Comparing the burden of aging across countries hinges on the availability of valid and
comparable indicators. The Old Age Dependency Ratio allows only a limited assessment of …

What can health inequalities researchers learn from an intersectionality perspective? Understanding social dynamics with an inter-categorical approach?

A Kapilashrami, S Hill, N Meer - Social Theory & Health, 2015 - Springer
The concept of intersectionality was developed by social scientists seeking to analyse the
multiple interacting influences of social location, identity and historical oppression. Despite …

Changing patterns of social inequalities in anaemia among women in India: cross-sectional study using nationally representative data

YS Balarajan, WW Fawzi, SV Subramanian - BMJ open, 2013 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To examine the patterns of social inequalities in anaemia over time among
women of reproductive age in India. Design Repeated cross-sectional study using nationally …