primary healthcare

A Walmart store is seen in Encinitas, California, U.S. Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake/Files

Come for Your Drugs, Leave With Shopping: Walmart’s New Growth Strategy?

Nandita Bose and Chris Prentice 03/04/2018

The retail giant is in talks with medical care...

mHealth, or "mobile health", enthusiasts envisage healthcare delivery as an engineering problem, as if a technical solution can be developed to solve it. Credit: N i c o l a/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Trouble With Developing a Framework for Primary Healthcare Delivery in Poor Countries

Vivekanand Jha 21/03/2018

Long-term approaches are difficult but necessary to solve the...

A woman, who underwent a sterilisation surgery at a government mass sterilisation camp, feeds her child in a hospital in Chhattisgarh

In Chhattisgarh, Public Funds for Health Insurance Are Being Diverted to the Private Sector

Sulakshana Nandi, Deepika Joshi and Sangeeta Sahu 28/02/2018

There is no available reason to believe that a...

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Why Primary Healthcare in India Needs a New Delivery Model

Krisha Mathur 25/01/2018

India has made reasonable progress in improving access to...

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Ghost Centres, Profit-Making Aims Mar Rajasthan’s Privatisation of Primary Healthcare

Rakhee Roytalukdar 04/11/2017

A study by an NGO a year after certain...

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An Inadequate and Misdirected Health Budget

Sourindra Mohan Ghosh and Imrana Qadeer 08/02/2017

The Budget allocation for the health sector is not...

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Rajasthan is Privatising Primary Health Care

Aarti Dhar 07/08/2015

An almost similar move to outsource diagnostic services in...