The battle against #lungdiseases demands a comprehensive public health strategy that goes beyond treatment and embraces #prevention, public #awareness, and holistic #healthcheckups. #covid19 #ayushmanbharat #mohfw Read more »
Artificial intelligence could revolutionise public health, but regulation needed to protect privacy, promote equity, writes Joe Thomas. Read more »
Half of the public health budget comes from the National Health Mission that saw a 1.2% increase in allocation compared with the previous year. #budget2023 #ayushmanbharat #mgnrega #publichealth Read more »
As the private medical system is unaffordable to a majority of citizens, the PHC-UHC approach can be adopted to improve access to the public health system. Read more »
Global Health Updates: Researchers need to evolve best practices of self-care that could be used to manage Long Covid symptoms and other illnesses. Read more »
A Budget 2022 wishlist: Indian economy needs higher investment in improving delivery of public health services. Read more »
Optimal public health outcomes require policymakers and public health practitioners to hold powerful commercial actors responsible for their actions. Read more »
India needs to shed the profit logic that has dominated the sector in the pre Covid-19 period and reconstruct public health system. Read more »
Dr Aruna Sharma’s inaugural address in the first episode of Delhi Dialogues emphasised the need for deliberations and wider consultations in tackling the third wave of Covid-19. Read more »
The latest Covid-19 figures show that there was nothing wrong with the Kerala model -- the hospitals were never crowded, the cases were getting proper treatment, mortality rate was quite low.
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