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The Ganga Action Plan (GAP) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1985 with the objective of abatement of pollution in the river Ganga due to discharge of sewage into the river from the point as well as non-point sources. The plan was renamed the National River Conservation Plan...
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at the health impact of poor water quality [Discussion Paper 55]. …
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Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …
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This paper analyzes the inter-state imbalances in three major sectors of the economy, namely, education, health and …
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Poor quality essential medicines, both substandard and counterfeit, are serious but neglected public health problems … differences between public health and intellectual property approaches to the problem. It is argued that public health, and not … the World Health Organization (WHO) should be encouraged and supported to take a more prominent role in improving the …
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Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially … neglect of urban public health care. Importance has to be given to Millennium Development Goals that are still unmet. Health …
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This report provides information on the policy and implementation of immunization in India. A description of the findings of the verbal autopsies gathered from the visits to Srinagar and Haryana, as also the replies obtained under from RTIs on the situation in other states. There is a discussion...
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Using government data, this brief reports on NRHM expenditures along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in fund allocation and expenditure: GOI and States, b) Allocation and expenditure on key programmes like immunisation, c) Physical coverage and human resource availability, and d)...
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The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].
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This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water … quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. [Working Paper 12/0605]. URL:[http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/brainerd_menon_water_quality_health.pdf]. …
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