Tag Search: “public health”
A world of no lockdowns: The case of South Korea and Sweden
While most of the world was under lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, two countries, Sweden and South Korea, decided to keep their economies open. In this post, Bhatia et al. use a metric o...
- Shritanjay Bhatia Julia Brockley Nikita Navaneeth Utkarsh Sikka Isha Trivedi Sanna Uppal
- 15 March, 2021
- Perspectives
Budget 2021-22: Healthcare takes centre stage, again
Assessing the 2021-22 Union Budget from a health-sector perspective, Coffey and Spears contend that improving India’s health outcomes will require old solutions to old problems – and this sort of thin...
- Diane Coffey Dean Spears
- 24 February, 2021
- Perspectives
Covid-19 and other diseases: An ‘Animal Farm’ perspective
Debraj Ray and S Subramanian contend that despite the apparent sentiment of ‘we are all in this together’, the global burdens of Covid-19 and the global benefits of anti-Covid-19 policy have been skew...
- Debraj Ray S. Subramanian
- 23 February, 2021
- Perspectives
What can we learn about Swachh Bharat Mission from NFHS-5 factsheets?
Swachh Bharat Mission was introduced by Government of India in 2014 to eliminate open defecation. Based on data from the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5 factsheets, this article shows that ...
- Diane Coffey Nathan Franz Dean Spears
- 02 February, 2021
- Articles
An assessment of policy performance under the current regime
Commenting on the recent policy paper by Subramanian-Felman, Maitreesh Ghatak discusses why – looking at the same numbers – he would tend to be less generous in his grades for the performance of polic...
- Maitreesh Ghatak
- 01 February, 2021
- Perspectives
Challenges of solid waste management: The case of Patna city
Rapid urbanisation with insufficient planning has led to problems of solid waste management in several Indian cities. In this note, Uma Sarmistha discusses preliminary findings from a field study in t...
- Uma Sarmistha
- 25 January, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Covid-19: Debunking fake news among slum-dwellers
Urban slum-dwellers are among the groups that are most at-risk of Covid-19, and their precarious situation is further compounded by rampant misinformation regarding the Virus. Based on a survey of abo...
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 21 January, 2021
- Articles
Covid-19 spread: Does social and economic diversity matter?
Arresting the spread of Covid-19 requires collective action by communities, which is likely to be more challenging in settings with high diversity. Using district-level data from India, this article e...
- Upasak Das Udayan Rathore Prasenjit Sarkhel
- 15 January, 2021
- Articles
Rising obesity in rural India, under the growing urban shadow
According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), 2015-16, nearly 20% of India’s population is obese. This article shows that the country’s obesity trends have followed the nature of its economic...
- Anaka Aiyar Prabhu Pingali Andaleeb Rahman
- 12 January, 2021
- Articles
Building resilience among ultra-poor for times of crisis
Lack of integration into the existing social protection system exacerbates the poor's vulnerabilities, leaving them without adequate support structures during a crisis. In this note, Shagun Sabarwal a...
- Maximilian Lohnert Shagun Sabarwal
- 11 December, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Webinar: Growing concern around violence against women
On 25 November 2020, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre – in collaboration with the Asian Development Research ...
- Michele Mary Bernadine Nalini Gulati
- 10 December, 2020
- Videos
Mental health disparities in India
While a large, multidisciplinary literature focusses on disparities in physical health across social groups, the mental health dimension remains invisible. Analysing data from a WHO survey conducted i...
- Diane Coffey Aashish Gupta Meghana Mungikar
- 13 November, 2020
- Articles