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KPME Bill Amendment 2017 is not a solution to create affordable healthcare
June 15, 2017, 1:51 PM IST
A great health system is not when people opt for private healthcare; a great health system is when Governments can provide quality and affordable public healthcare. – Dr. Edmond Fernandes, CEO, Center for Health and…
June 15, 2017, 1:51 PM IST
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NBE is compromising super speciality medical education in India
June 10, 2017, 11:11 AM IST
“NBE should rise up to engage and mature with the medical community which continues to re-discover itself through the extra-ordinary school of experience, learning daily from the corridors of a medical ward, interacting with communities…
June 10, 2017, 11:11 AM IST
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Why this road user ID card will change health systems forever
June 3, 2017, 3:53 PM IST
“Road traffic injuries simply cannot be justified as a cause of death in 2017 as the world gets ambitious and conscious to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. As a society, we ought to do, what we…
June 3, 2017, 3:53 PM IST
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Universal Health Coverage remains an over-ambitious English word
May 26, 2017, 1:58 PM IST
“For years, New Delhi has not delivered a health system that honours health as a human right and has failed to address policy reforms that could safeguard the health of every single Indian, the…
May 26, 2017, 1:58 PM IST
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In pursuit of public health
May 18, 2017, 10:26 AM IST
“Public health mandates extra-ordinary commitment and will from government machineries which require non-partisan dialogues. Politics and public health are two sides of the same coin and both remain integral to the survival and improvement of…
May 18, 2017, 10:26 AM IST
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Water scarcity strategies for Indian municipalities to adopt
March 24, 2017, 11:46 AM IST
Water scarcity and drought is becoming a real world problem for many Indian cities and is going to shape the future pushing experts to revisit environmental and development policies. Drought is a climatic feature which…
March 24, 2017, 11:46 AM IST
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Bargaining for health while addressing drought
February 12, 2017, 12:30 PM IST
“Evidence based public health pushes health workers to absorb and understand natural disasters and its link towards influencing human health, which not only shapes the economy but something which remains instrumental towards the attainment of…
February 12, 2017, 12:30 PM IST
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Our world: Nuts and bolts to sustainable human health
January 19, 2017, 11:27 PM IST
“All roads on earth lead to securing basic public health first” Dr Edmond Fernandes, CEO, Center for Health and Development (CHD-India) One may speak of the sexiest of innovations that may define the 21st century…
January 19, 2017, 11:27 PM IST
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Defending health systems during humanitarian disasters
November 24, 2016, 3:06 PM IST
The world has been reeling through disasters of different magnitudes witnessed like never before. Humanitarian disaster is cropping up at every corner which is demanding attention of unprecedented nature. While reaching out to victims is…
November 24, 2016, 3:06 PM IST
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Chronicles of the medical profession — Protect doctors first
October 24, 2016, 8:21 PM IST
The baggage today’s doctors carry is not an easy one to comprehend. Society has been talking for a while on what doctors should do, how much they should earn and what is expected from them….
October 24, 2016, 8:21 PM IST
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Health Ministries should set up Public Health Advisory Councils
October 11, 2016, 3:54 PM IST
Health Ministries in many countries have plainly seen healthcare from a narrow prism of a curative domain. Global health today is increasingly complicated now than ever before. The one size fits all approach to healthcare…
October 11, 2016, 3:54 PM IST
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Create advisory body to state disaster management authority as per DM Act 2005
September 13, 2016, 11:38 PM IST
Nani Palkhivala, India’s then Ambassador to the United States of America during the emergency days reminded all Indians of what they did during the quest for Independence and the sacrifices made as one nation. He…
September 13, 2016, 11:38 PM IST
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Japan’s ageing population–a demographic time bomb
September 5, 2016, 8:32 PM IST
Japan leads the world when it comes to population ageing. This is a very discouraging sign from the eyes of a demographer and a global health specialist. More than 23% of Japan’s population is already…
September 5, 2016, 8:32 PM IST
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India-Hong Kong health diplomacy in need of reforms
August 18, 2016, 4:18 PM IST
Increasing number of Indians add value to enhance Hong Kong’s tourism and also at times to strengthen academic ties and trade. India’s relations with Hong Kong dates back to 1840s when Hong Kong became a…
August 18, 2016, 4:18 PM IST
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Prioritize social policy for humanitarian disasters
July 25, 2016, 3:09 PM IST
Disasters is a common visitor to the Indian sub-continent. Social policy in disasters can serve as a cushion to prevent the psychological burden it adds on families and can help assist in sustainable growth. Absence…
July 25, 2016, 3:09 PM IST
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Protect police health to prevent social deterioration
July 9, 2016, 9:07 PM IST
We are living in a rapidly deteriorating social system bereft of all values. The crime rates are increasing. We are witnessing rapes, murders and rising terrorism like never before. Much of these ills is a…
July 9, 2016, 9:07 PM IST
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Why India needs a Ministry of Public Health
July 1, 2016, 10:56 PM IST
Governments after governments come and go, but not once did anyone feel the need to have a separate Ministry of Public Health which should be the sole ministry responsible to address India’s public health problems….
July 1, 2016, 10:56 PM IST
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Venezuela: Dying for global health attention
June 23, 2016, 1:07 PM IST
It is well known that Venezuela is in a deepening mess that is here to stay for long. It no longer matters what lead to the crisis and different sources have different versions of the…
June 23, 2016, 1:07 PM IST
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Need to discover urban health more deeply
June 20, 2016, 3:14 PM IST
Cities are expanding horizontally and vertically pushing the concentration of civilians to the brink. With its expansion one can witness the rising inequalities that are becoming increasingly evident in the dimensions of healthcare. What needs…
June 20, 2016, 3:14 PM IST
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