Health Inequities in India: A Synthesis of Recent Evidence
This is the seventh webinar in the series of webinars – Equilogues, organized under the project “Closing the Gap: Health Equity Research Initiative in India”, hosted by Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum, India, supported by IDRC, Canada. The video offers a glimpse into the book, “Health Inequities in India: A Synthesis of Recent Evidence”, edited by Sundari Ravindran.T.K & Rakhal Gaitonde). Our speaker is Dr Rakhal Gaitonde (MD in Community Medicine), who is one of the authors and a co-editor. We have planned a live Q & A session for interested participants on 24th April 2018, during which Dr Rakhal will interact with interested participants about the book and respond to their questions.
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This paper discusses the biological sex-related factors that may render men more susceptible to pulmonary TB than women and recommend a multi-disciplinary team of researchers including not only microbiologists, immunologists, and human geneticists, but also...