by admin | Nov 25, 2016 | Articles
This is an observational longitudinal cohort study conducted in the tribal blocks of central-eastern India, which demonstrates the effect of a community based management programme on acute malnutrition among children less that three years of age. The results of the...
by admin | Nov 17, 2016 | Articles
This paper discusses the inequality in the ailing and treatment seeking behavior and hospitalization on multiple axis of inequality such as, tribal status, regional, gender, literacy ect.
by admin | Nov 15, 2016 | Articles
The author presents a case study of the Kani tribe in Kerala, India, where she draws out the tribe’s experience of sharing of a drug produced from indigenous knowledge and its implications with regard to intellectual property, marketing, traditional knowledge, benefit...
by admin | Nov 15, 2016 | Articles
The paper aims to assess the health system competency for maternal health services in Balasore district of Odisha, India using a mixed methods approach. The findings point to a general lack of health infra structure and non compliance to Indian Public Health...
by admin | Nov 15, 2016 | Articles
The paper is a critical discourse, which deconstructs the concept of ‘cultural competency’, based on Bourdieu’s model of reflexivity. Here, the authors have viewed culture competency as a colonizing force within biomedical practice that arises from reluctance to...
