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Hope to lower OOPE on healthcare frontIn 2023, National Health Accounts reported a reduction in OOPE from 69.4% in 2004-05 to 48.21% in 2018-19. The global average was 18.1% in ...
27 Feb, 2024, 12.55 AM IST
How pandemic bonds became the world's most controversial investmentThe harshest critics of the World Bank's experiment have questioned whether it’s appropriate to tie responsibility for public health to pri...
10 Dec, 2020, 09.41 AM IST
India’s 600,000 strong army of virus-hunting women goes on a two-day strikeAfter months of harassment, underpayment and lack of protection from infection, about 600,000 of the country’s one million Accredited Socia...
07 Aug, 2020, 06.58 PM IST
Bidi smoking cost India Rs 80,550 crore last year: StudyBidi -- a cheap cigarette made of unprocessed tobacco wrapped in leaves -- is very popular in India, accounting for 81 per cent of the toba...
30 Dec, 2018, 01.26 PM IST
Better healthcare makes economic sense. Does it make political sense?In 4 years, India will jump past China to hit 1.411 bn people and become the most populous nation on Earth.
09 Aug, 2018, 09.45 PM IST
- KMC seeks corporate support for TB-Free Kolkata mission
An appeal was made to corporate houses to invest in the anti-TB cause as the disease is inextricably linked with poverty.
16 Sep, 2017, 05.31 PM IST
Keen to use India's brain power, says Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & JohnsonStoffels, who is also worldwide chairman of the US drug major’s pharmaceuticals group, was in India recently to take stock of company’s ope...
13 Feb, 2016, 06.24 AM IST
Tuberculosis rate going down, but not fast enough to meet WHO target"Community support groups/NGOs can be effectively used to create awareness and both WHO and government of India should pursue these collabo...
11 Jan, 2015, 11.12 AM IST
Rural healthcare as biz opportunityAbsence of a viable business model prevents conversion of the huge rural expenditure on health into an economic activity that generates inc...
27 Sep, 2010, 05.16 AM IST