Readings and Materials
“Sangath: Bridging the Gap.” Satyamev Jayate.
Profile: Sangath. Mental Health Innovators website.
Chinai, Rupa. “Indian Paradise Takes Novel Approach to Mental Health.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85, no. 8 (August 2007): 576.
“Sangath Study Highlights Reasons for Alcohol Problems in Goa.” December 4, 2013. Times of India. (optional)
Patel, V. “Sundar: Mental Health for All.” The British Journal of Psychiatry 21, no. 1 (2015).
Sangath’s Biennial Report: 2012-2014 (PDF - 11.0MB).
Sangath for MIT intro, biosketches, key concepts
Videos
Vikram Patel: Mental Health for All
Patel, Vikram. “Mental Health for All by Involving All.” TEDGlobal 2012.
Vikram Patel helps bring better mental health care to low-resource communities—by teaching ordinary people to deliver basic psychiatric services.
In towns and villages that have few clinics, doctors and nurses, one particular need often gets overlooked: Mental health. When there is no psychiatrist, how do people get care when they need it? Vikram Patel studies how to treat conditions like depression and schizophrenia in low-resource communities, and he’s come up with a powerful model: Training the community to help.
Based in Goa for much of the year, Patel is part of a policy group that’s developing India’s first national mental health policy; he’s the co-founder of Sangath, a local NGO dedicated to mental health and family wellbeing. In London, he co-directs the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. And he led the efforts to set up the Movement for Global Mental Health, a network that supports mental health care as a basic human right.
From Sangath’s mission statement: “At the heart of our vision lies the ’treatment gap’ for mental disorders; the gap between the number of people with a mental disorder and the number who receive care for their mental disorders.”
“This comprehensive work empowers healthcare workers in under-resourced and developing communities to build much-needed mental health care into all aspects of existing services.” Amazon.com review of:
Eapen, Valsamma, Philip Graham, and Shoba Srinath. Where There Is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual. Royal College of Psychiatrists Publications, 2012. [Preview with Google Books]
About his talk: Vikram in his talk stresses on the need for mental health care for all by involving all by shifting tasks to the local people of communities rather than relying on specialists. He gives examples of his experiences in rural India & some shocking statistics related to mental health to convey this urgent message of democratising mental health.
MacArthur Award Interview with Vikram Patel
macfound. “Vikram Patel of Sangath.” October 9, 2008. YouTube.
Sangath, Goa’s largest and most successful health-related NGO, was one of eight recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions in 2008.
Sangath’s Premium Project
SangathGoa. “Clinical trial Sangath.” August 12, 2014. YouTube.
On alcohol addiction program. Observe how a team of passionate, energetic lay health counsellors led by their supervisors work to treat depression and alcohol use disorders in a low-resource setting in India.
Sangath’s Premium project works with non-specialist health workers to deliver psychological treatments for depression and alcohol-use disorders in primary health care settings in Goa.
This video won the third prize at the Global Health Trials competition supported by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Oxford, U.K., in celebration of Clinical Trials Day 2014.
- Amit Dias’ list of Assistive Technology for people with dementia
- Daley, Tamara and Marian Sigman. “Diagnostic Conceptualization of Autism Among India Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Pediatricians.” J. of Autism and Developmental Disorders 32, no. 1 (2002):13-23.
- Desai, M.U. “Caring in Context-Parenting a Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in India.” Ph.D Thesis, Fordham University, 2012.
- Desai, M.U., et al. “The Discovery of Autism: Indian Parents’ Experiences of Caring for their Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Transcultural Psychiatry 49, nos. 3-4 (2012): 613-637.
- Divan, G., et al. “Challenges, Coping Strategies, and Unmet Needs of Families with a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Goa, India.” Autism Research 5 (2012): 190-200.
- Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK). National Health Mission, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.
- World Health Organization Infographic on Dementia
- Patel, V. “Sundar: Mental Health for All.” The British Journal of Psychiatry 21, no. 1 (2015).
- Sangath for MIT intro, biosketches, key concepts
- “Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all.” June, 2012. TEDGlobal.
Participating students reviewed these materials and developed brief reviews of a selection.
India Health
GBD Profile: India. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 2010.
OECD Health Statistics 2014: How does India compare? (PDF)
Pati, S., et al. Non Communicable Disease Multimorbidity and Associated Health Care Utilization and Expenditures in India: Cross Sectional Study. BMC Health Services Research 14 (2014).
Key Additional Resources
John, T. Jacob, et al. “Continuing Challenge of Infectious Diseases in India.” The Lancet 377, no. 9761 (15 January 2011): 252-269.
Patel, Vikram, et al. “Chronic Diseases and Injuries in India.” The Lancet 377, no. 9763 (29 January 2011): 413-428.
Bloom, D.E., et al. “Economics of Non-Communicable Diseases in India.” World Economic Forum, Harvard School of Public Health. 2014.
India Budget and Government
Bagcchi, S. “Indian Government Proposes Quadrupling Healthcare Spending to 2.5% of GDP in Five Years.” The BMJ 2015;350;h556.
Kalra, Aditya. “India Slashes Health Budget, Already One of the World’s Lowest.” Dec. 23, 2014. Reuters.
–––. “Modi Likely to Keep Tight Rein on Health Spending - Sources.” Feb. 25, 2015. Reuters.
Prasad, Urvashi. “What Does Slashing The Healthcare Budget Mean For India’s Ailing Public Health System?” Jan. 1, 2015. The Huffington Post.
Rao, M. Govinda and Mita Choudhury. “Health Care Financing Reforms in India.” (PDF). Working Paper No: 2012-100, March- 2012. National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
Ravi, Shamike and Rahul Ahulwalia. “Band-aid Solutions for Health Problems.” February 20, 2015. Brookings India.
Sachan, Dinsa. “New Government Gears Up for India’s Health Challenges.” The Lancet 383, no. 9935 (June 2014): 2112.
Key Additional Resources
Deolalikar, Anil B., et al. “Financing Health Improvements In India.” Health Affairs 27, no. 4 (2008): 978-990.
Singh, Ved. “Resourcing India’s Future: Addressing Challenges in Healthcare, Innovation, and Public Policy” (An Interview with Anup Malani). National Bureau of Asian Research.
India Mental Health
Bagcchi, Sanjeet. “Rethinking India’s Psychiatric Care.” The Lancet, Psychiatry 1, no. 7 (2014): 503-504.
Patel, Vikram, et al. “Suicide Mortality in India: A Nationally Representative Survey.” The Lancet 379 (2012):2343-2350.
Trani, J.-F., et al."Mental Illness, Poverty and Stigma in India: A Case–control Study." BMJ Open 5, no. 2, 2015;5: e006355. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006355
Key Additional Resource
Aggarwal, Neil K., et al. “Using Consumer Perspectives to Inform the Cultural Adaptiation of Psychological Treatments for Depression: A Mixed Methods Study from South Asia.” Journal of Affective Disorders 163 (2014): 88-101.
India Health System
Burns, Lawton Robert. “A System Perspective on India’s Healthcare Industry.” The World Financial Review. July 28, 2014.
“Understanding Healthcare Access in India.” IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, India. June, 2013.
Jayaraman, Vijay R. “5 Things to Know about India’s Healthcare System.” Forbes, India. November 17, 2015.
Gill, Jennifer, and David Taylor. “Health and Health Care in India: National Opportunities, Global Impacts.” UCL School of Pharmacy. July, 2013.
Key Additional Resources
Singh, Karan, et al. “Aarogya Bharat: India Healthcare Roadmap for 2025.” Healthcare Federation of India. Bain & Company, 2015.
Aggarwal, Priyanka and Bart Janssens. “Power to the Patient: A New Growth Paradigm for Indian Providers.” The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). February, 2014.
Govindarajan, Vijay. “Reviving the Health of Health-care.” Business Today. January 2, 2014.
Gudwani, Ayushi, et al. “India Healthcare: Inspiring Possibilities, Challenging Journey.” Prepared for Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committe on Healthcare. McKinsey & Company. December, 2012.
Kumar, A.K. Shiva, et al. “Financing Health Care for All: Challenges and Opportunities.” The Lancet 377 (2011): 668-679.
Singh, Nirvikar. “Decentralization and Public Delivery of Health Care Services in India.” Health Affairs 27, no. 4 (2008): 991-1001.
India Healthcare Delivery (especially Mental Health), Service Quality, HR, Task Shift
Buttorff, Christine, et al. “Economic Evaluation of a Task-shifting Intervention for Common Mental Disorders in India.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 90 (2012): 813-821.
Das, Jishnu, et al. “At the Intersection of Health, Health Care and Policy.” Health Affairs 31, no. 12 (2012): 2774-2784.
Mishra, Arima. “‘Trust and Teamwork Matter’: Community Health Workers’ Experiences in Integrated Service Delivery in India.” Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice 9, no. 8 (2014): 960-974.
Rao, Mohan, et al. “Human Resources for Health in India.” The Lancet 377 (2011): 587–98.
Singla, Daisy R., et al. “Improving the Scalability of Psychological Treatments in Developing Countries: An Evaluation of Peer-led Therapy Quality Assessment in Goa, India.” Behaviour Research and Therapy 60 (2014): 53-59.
Singla, Daisy R., et al. “‘Someone Like Us’: Delivering Maternal Mental Health Through Peers in Two South Asian Contexts.” Journal fo Affective Disorders 168 (2014): 452-458.
Srinivasan, Vasanthi and Rajesh Chandwani. “HRM Innovations in Rapid Growth Contexts: The Healthcare Sector in India.” The International Journal of Human Resource Management 25, no. 10 (2014): 1505-1525.
Innovations, Need in Mental Healthcare
Kazdin, Alan E. and Sarah M. Rabbitt. “Novel Models for Delivering Mental Health Services and Reducing the Burdens of Mental Illness.” Clinical Psychological Science (2013).
Patel, Vikram, et al. “The Movement for Global Mental Health.” The British Journal of Psychiatry 198 (2011): 88-90.
Patel, Vikram, et al. “Packages of Care for Depression in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” PLOS Medicine 6, no. 10 (2009):e1000159.
India Social Factors, Poverty, Equity
Agarwal, Siddharth. “Making the Invisible Visible.” Infochange India. October, 2014.
Bhunia, Abhirup. “China and India’s Growing Inequalities in Access to Health Care.“Diplomatic Courier. August 13, 2014.
Jain, Anita. “Patient Communities Reform Healthcare in India.” The British Medical Journal 350 (2015):h225.
“The Health of India: A Future that Must be Devoid of Caste.” The Lancet 384 (2014): 1901.
Chaturvedi, Sanjay, et al. “Are we Reluctant to Talk About Cultural Determinants?” (PDF). Indian Journal of Medical Research 133 (2011): 361-363.
Sen, Binayak. “Ethics, Equity and Genocide.” Infochange India. December, 2010.
Key Additional Resources
Balarajan, Y. S., et al. “Health Care and Equity in India.” The Lancet 377 (2011): 505-515.
Kruk, Margaret E., et al. “Borrowing and Selling to Pay for Health Care in Low- and Middle-income Countries.” Health Affairs 28, no. 4 (2009): 1056-1066.
Technology, mHealth
Jones, Sarah P., et al. “How Google’s ‘Ten Things We Know to be True’ Could Guide the Development of Mental Health Mobile Apps.” Health Affairs 33, no. 9 (2014): 1603-1611.
Hutchinson, Brian. “India’s Technology Sector: Paving the Way for Innovative New Approaches to Healthcare. An Interview with Kanav Kahol.” The National Bureau of Asian Research. February 2, 2012.
Kahol, Kanav. “Mobile Phone Messaging to Improve Health.” The British Medical Journal 349 (2014):g6158.
Källander K., et al. “Mobile Health (mHealth) Approaches and Lessons for Increased Performance and Retention of Community Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review.” Journal of Medical Internet Research 15, no. 1 (2013): January.
Kwan, Ada. “Getting Healthier Around the World: Infomation and Communication Technologies for Child Health and Development.” mHealth Alliance, 2014.
–––. “mHealth Solutions for Improving Mental Health and Illnesses in the Aging Process.” mHealth Alliance, 2013.
–––. “mHealth Transferring the Burden of Caregivers to Mobile Technology.” mHealth Alliance, 2013.
–––. “Using Mobile Technology for Healthier Aging.” mHealth Alliance, 2012.
Mehl, Garret and Alain Labrique. “Prioritizing integrated mHealth strategies for universal health coverage.” Science 345, no. 6202 (2014): 1284-1287.
Shuchman, M. “The Promise and Pitfalls of Global mHealth.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 186, no. 15 (2014): 1134-1135.
”Data-driven Health Care.” MIT Technology Review 117, no. 5 (2014).
Key Additional Resources
Aguilera, Adrian, and Clara Berridge. “Qualitative Feedback From a Text Messaging Intervention for Depression: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Cultural Differences.” JMIR mHealth uHealth 2, no. 4 (2014):e46.
Aranda-Jan, C.B., et al. “Systematic Review on What Works, What Does Not Work and Why of Implementation of Mobile Health (mHealth) Projects in Africa.” BMC Public Health 14, no. 188 (2014).
Bloomfield, G.S., et al. “Mobile Health for Non-communicable Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Strategic Framework for Research.” Globalization and Health 10, no. 49 (2014).
Bock, Beth C., et al. “Translating Behavioral Interventions Onto mHealth Platforms: Developing Text Message Interventions for Smoking and Alcohol.” JMIR mHealth uHealth 3, no. 1 (2015):e22.
Buluswar, Shashi. “50 Breakthroughs: Critical Scientific and Technological Advances Needed for Sustainable Global Development.” LIGTT, Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2014.
DeSouza, S.I., et al. “Mobile Phones: The Next Step towards Healthcare Delivery in Rural India?” PLOS ONE. August 18, 2014.
Free, Caroline, et al. “The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” PLOS Medicine 10, no. 1 (2013):e1001363.
Hillard, M.E., et al. “User Preferences and Design Recommendations for an mHealth App to Promote Cystic Fibrosis Self-Management.” JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2, no. 4 (2014):e44.
Kellerman, A. and S. Jones. “The Delayed Promise of Health-Care IT.” Project Syndicate. February 26, 2013.
Mira, Tony. “How Disruptive Technologies can Help India Emerge as a Hub for Healthcare Outsourcing.” InformationWeek. October 9, 2014.
Oliveria, J., et al. “Enhancing Knowledge Flow in a Health Care Context: A Mobile Computing Approach.” JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2, no. 4 (2014):e17.
Payne, H.E., et al. “Behavioral Functionality of Mobile Apps in Health Interventions: A Systematic Review of the Literature.” JMIR mHealth and uHealth 3, no.1 (2015):e20.
Peiris, D., et al. “Use of mHealth Systems and Tools for Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: a Systematic Review.” J. of Cardiovasc. Trans. Res. 7 (2014):677–691.
Philbrick, William C. “mHealth and mNCH: State of the Evidence.” (PDF - 2.1MB). mHealth Alliance. January, 2013.
Shen, N., et al. “Finding a Depression App: A Review and Content Analysis of the Depression App Marketplace.” JMIR mHealth and uHealth 3, no. 1 (2015):e16.
Van Houten, Frans. “The New Health-Care Continuum.” Project Syndicate. January 21, 2015.
Other Interesting Resources
Fairman, A.D., et al. “Outcomes of Clinicians, Caregivers, Family Members and Adults with Spina Bifida Regarding Receptivity to use of the iMHere mHealth Solution to Promote Wellness.” International Journal of Telerehabilitation 5, no. 1 (2013).
Lindgardt, Z., et al. “Fulfilling the Promise of mHealth Through Business Model Innovation.” The Boston Consulting Group. April, 2014.
Labrique, A.B., et al. “mHealth innovations as health system strengthening tools: 12 common applications and a visual framework.” Global Health: Science and Practice.
Motamarri, S. “Distinguishing “mHealth” from Other Healthcare Services in a Developing Country: A Study from the Service Quality Perspective.” Communications of the Assiciation for Information Systems 34, no. 1 (2014): 669-692.
More Ideas, Potential Inspirations, Approaches
Bibby, Jo. “Unleashing the Caring Potential of Families: Taking an Innovation from India to the U.S.” The Health Foundation. March 13, 2015.
Dixon-Fyle, S., et al. “Changing Patient Behavior: The Next Frontier in Healthcare Value.” (PDF). Health International, McKinsey & Company, 2012.
Mulgan, G. and C. Leadbeater. “Systems Innovation: Discussion Paper.” Nesta, 2013.
Rohde, Jon. “Supportive Supervision to Improve Integrated Primary Health Care.” Management Sciences for Health, Occasional Paper no. 2 (2006).
Wachter, Bob. “My Interview with Atul Gawande.” Wachter’s World. January 6, 2015.
The Mental Health Innovation Network - Innovations: The database of innovations catalogues comprehensive summaries of mental health programs and research projects around the world.
India: Other Organizations
Bollyky, T.J., et al. “NCDs and an Outcome-based Approach to Global Health.” The Lancet 384 (2014).
Daniels, M.E., et al. “The Emerging Global Health Crisis: Noncommunicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” Council on Foreign Relations, 2014.
Dieleman, J.L., et al. “Global Health Development Assistance Remained Steady in 2013 but did not Align with Recipients’ Disease Burden.” Health Affairs, April 2014.
“Global, Regional, and National Age–sex Specific All-cause and Cause-specific Mortality for 240 Causes of Death, 1990–2013: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease.” The Lancet 385 (2015): 117-171.
Jaminson, E.T., et al. “Global Health 2035: A World Converging Within a Generation.” The Lancet 382, no. 9908. December 7, 2013.
Jiminez, Joseph. “Health in Hard Places.” Project Syndicate. January 21, 2013.
“Health Outcomes and Cost: A 166-country Comparison.” The Economist, Intelligence Unit. 2014.
“Policy Brief #4: Opportunities for Low- and Middle-income Countries.” (PDF). The Lancet, Global health 2035.
Mostert, S., et al. “Effect of Corruption on Medical Care in Low-income Countries.” Pediatr. Blood Cancer 58, no. 3 (2012): 325-326.
Ottersen, O.P., et al. “The Political Origins of Health Inequity: Prospects for Change.” The Lancet 383 (2014): 630-667.
Norheim, O.F. “Avoiding 40% of the Premature Deaths in Each Country, 2010-30: Review of National Mortality Trends to Help Quantify the UN Sustainable Development Goal for Health.” The Lancet 385 (2014): 239-252.
Global Health: Big Picture
Stine, Nicholas W. and Dave A. Chokshi. “Opportunity in Austerity: A Common Agenda for Medicine and Public Health.” New England Journal of Medicine 366, no. 5 (2012): 395-397.
Wang, H., et al. “Global, Regional, and National Levels of Neonatal, Infant, and Under-5 Mortality During 1990-2013: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.” The Lancet 384, no. 9947 (2014): 957-979.
World Health Statistics: 2014. A Wealth of Information of Global Public Health. World Health Organization.
Global Health: Business Approaches
Dutt, Nisha. “Base of the Pyramid Consumers: Getting the Right Product to the Right People.” Business Innovation Facility.
Ehrbeck, T., N. Henke, and T. Kibasi. “The Emergin Market in Health Care Innovation.” McKinsey Quarterly. May, 2010.
“Inside Inclusive Business: Needs or Wants? Unraveling demand, affordability and accessibility when selling to the base of the pyramid (PDF).” Business Innovation Facility 8 (August, 2013).
Simanis, E., S. Hart, and D. Duke. “The Base of the Pyramid Protocol: Beyond ‘Basic Needs’ Business Strategies.” _Innovations (_Winter, 2008): 57-84.
Global Health: Diagnostics
Fu, Elaine and Barry Lutz. “Diagnostics for Global Health.” Project Syndicate. November 7, 2013.
Global Health: Gender Issues
Ellsberg, Mary, et al. “Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls: What Does the Evidence Say?” The Lancet 385, no. 9977 (2015): 1555-1566.
Global Health: Geriatric Health
Prince, M.J., et al. “The Burden of Disease in Older People and Implications for Health Policy and Practice.” The Lancet 385, no. 9967 (2015): 549-562.
“Global Health and Aging.” (PDF - 1.6MB). National Institute of Aging, National Institute of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. World Health Organization. NIH Publication no. 11-7737. October, 2011.
Global Health: Mental Health, Alcohol
Wagenaar, Brad. “Mental Health Care Workers in Mozambique.” Health Alliance International (blog). April 8, 2014.
Bruckner, Tim A., et al. “The Mental Health Workforce Gap in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Needs-based Approach.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 89 (2011): 184-194.
Claridge, Amy M. “Efficacy of Systemically Oriented Psychotherapies in the Treatment of Perinatal Depression: A Meta-analysis.” Archives of Women’s Mental Health 17, no. 1 (2014): 3-15.
DeSilva, Mary, et al. “Policy Actions To Achieve Integrated Community-Based Mental Health Services.” Health Affairs 33, no. 9 (2014): 1595-1602.
Eaton, Julian, et al. “Scale Up of Services for Mental Health in Low-income and Middle-income Countries.” The Lancet 378. no. 9802 (2011): 1592-1603.
Hanlon, Charlotte, et al. “Challenges and Opportunities for Implementing Integrated Mental Health Care: A District Level Situation Analysis from Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” PLOS ONE 9, no. 2 (2014):e88437.
Henderson, Claire, et al. “Mental Health-related Stigma in Health Care and Mental Health-care Settings.” The Lancet Psychiatry 1, no. 6 (2014): 467-482.
Kakuma, R., et al. “Human Resources for Mental Health Care: Current Situation and Strategies for Action.” The Lancet 378, no. 9803 (2011):1654-1663.
Bithell, Claire, et al. “Media and Mental Health: Breaking Down Stigma and Challenging Inaccuracies.” (PDF - 1.8MB). The National Bureau of Asian Research, Center for Health and Aging. October, 2012.
Olson, Emma C. “Reducing Perinatal Depression Among the Hard to Serve.” The Journal of Global Health. August 10, 2014.
Patel, V., et al. “Improving Access to Care for Children with Mental Disorders: A Global Perspective.” Archive of Diseases in Childhood 98, no. 5 (2013): 323-327.
Patel, V. “Rethinking Mental Health Care: Bridging the Credibility Gap.” (PDF). Intervention 12, no. 1 (2014): 15-20.
Thara, R. “NGOs and Mental Health: Initiatives and Progress.” In Mental Health in South Asia: Ethics, Resources, Programs and Legislation. Thara, R. J. K. Trivedi, A. Tripathi (eds.). Springer, 2015.
Management of Substance Abuse: Alcohol. World Health Organization.
Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health 2014 (PDF - 5.7MB). World Health Organization.
Global Health: MNCH, ID, NCDs
Chopra, Mickey, et al. “Strategies to Improve Health Coverage and Narrow the Equity Gap in Child Survival, Health, and Nutrition.” The Lancet, 380, no. 9850 (2012): 1331-1340.
Ebrahim, Shah, et al. “Tackling Non-Communicable Diseases In Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Is the Evidence from High-Income Countries All We Need?” PLOS Medicine 10, no. 1 (2013): e1001377.
Fox-Rushby, Julia. “A Commentary on Jha P., R. Nugent, S. Verguet, D. Bloom, R. Hum ‘Chronic Disease Prevention and Control’.” (PDF - 2.2MB). Copenhagen Consensus 2012 Perspective Paper.
Hoppu, Kalle and Shalini Sri Ranganathan. “Essential Medicines for Children.” Archives of Diseases in Childhood 1, no. Supp1 (2013): s38-s42.
Jha, P., et al. “Chronic Disease Prevention and Control.” (PDF - 2.2MB). Copenhagen Consensus 2012 Challange Paper.
Kendall, T. “Critical Maternal Health Knowledge Gaps in Low- and Middle-income Countries for Post-2015: Researcher’ Perspectives.” Women and Health Initiative Working Paper No. 2. Women and Health Initiative, Harvard School of Public Health: Boston, MA. January, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-9913686-1-7.
Mason, E. et al, “From Evidence to Action to Deliver a Healthy Start for the Next Generation.” The Lancet 384, no. 9941 (2014): 455-467.
Travasso, Cheryl. “Study Finds “Know-do” Gap in Treatment of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea in Children in Rural Areas.” The BMJ 350 (2015).
Global Health: Policy
McKee, Martin, and David Stuckler. “The Crisis of Capitalism and the Marketisation of Health Care: The Implications for Public Health Professionals.” Journal of Public Health Research 1 (2013): e37.
Bhatia, M., et al. “Public Views Of Health System Issues In Four Asian Countries.” Health Affairs 28, no. 4 (2009):1067-1077.
Macdonnell, Michael and Ara Darzi. “A Key To Slower Health Spending Growth Worldwide Will Be Unlocking Innovation To Reduce The Labor-Intensity Of Care.” Health Affairs 32, no.4 (2013): 653-660.
Keown, Oliver P., et al. “Lessons From Eight Countries On Diffusing Innovation In Health Care.” Health Affairs 33, no.9 (2014): 1516-1522.
Horton, Richard and Selina Lo. “Protecting Health: The Global Challenge for Capitalism.” The Lancet 383, no. 9917 (2014): 577-578.
Marten, Robert, et al. “An Assessment of Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS).” The Lancet 384, no. 9960 (2014): 2164-2171.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. “Services Without Tears.” Project Syndicate. November 24, 2011.
Op Eds
Jha, Prabhat and Dean T. Jamison. “Don’t Follow America on Health Care.” Project Syndicate. March 28, 2012.
Yamey, Gavin and Helen Saxenian. “The Grand Global Health Convergence.” Project Syndicate. April 10, 2014.
Hausman, Ricardo. “The Mismeasure of Technology.” Project Syndicate. April 29, 2014.
Global Health: Reverse Innovation
Singh, Prabhjot. “A New World of Health Care.” Project Syndicate. August 5, 2014.
Chen, Pauline W. “What We Can Learn From Third-world Health Care.” The New York Times. July 26, 2013.
Chari, Anusha and Peter Blair Henry. “Learning From the Doers: Developing Country Lessons for Advanced Economy Growth.” American Economic Review 104, no. 5 (2014): 260-265.
Global Health: Service Delivery, HR, Task Shift, Experience
Biswas, Jhilam. “Learning about Task Shifting.” Partners Center of Expertise in Global and Humanitarian Health. March 23, 2014.
“Health Workforce Innovation: Accelerating Private Sector Responses to the Human Resources for Health Crisis.” Private Sector Task Force Report, Global Health Workforce Alliance, World Health Organization (WHO).
Goel, Sonu, et al. “Bridging the Human Resource Gap in Primary Health Care Delivery Systems of Developing Countries With mHealth: Narrative Literature Review.” JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth 1, no. 2 (2013): e25.
Joshi, Rohina, et al. “Task Shifting for Non-Communicable Disease Management in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review.” PLOS ONE 9, no. 8 (2014): e103754.
Laurance, Jeremy, et al. “Patient Engagement: Four Case Studies That Highlight The Potential For Improved Health Outcomes And Reduced Costs.” Health Affairs 33, no. 9 (2014): 1627-1634.
Leach, Anna. “Task Shifting Explained: A Viable Solution to health Worker Shortage?” The Guardian. May 12, 2014.
Leon, Natalie, et al. “The Role of ‘Hidden’ Community Volunteers in Community-based Health Service Delivery Platforms: Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa.” Global Health Action 8 (2015).
Woodroffe, Jessica and Kate Donald. “Unpaid Care: A Priority for the Post-2015 Development Goals and Beyond.” Gender and Development Network. Briefings 6 (July, 2014).
India Business Models
Govindarajan, Vijay and Ravi Ramamurti. “Delivering World-class Health Care, Affordably.” Harvard Business Review. November 2013.
Vickers, Tracey and Ellen Rosen. “Driving Down the Cost of High-quality Care: Lessons from the Aravind Eye Care System.” (PDF). Health International 11 (2011): 18-27.
India Business Opportunities, Trends
“Business and the Health Millennium Development Goals in India: Closing the Gaps.” GBC Health and the MDG Health Alliance. February, 2015.
Healthcare (PDF - 1.3MB). India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), August 2015.
“Enabling Access to Long-term Finance for Healthcare in India” (PDF - 3.2MB). NatHealth, Healthcare Federation of India, PWC. October, 2013.
Ramani, K.V. “The India Healthcare Sector: Governance and Management Challanges.” Advances in Social Science Research Journal 1, no. 1 (2014): 11-21.
Sammut, Stephen M. and Lawton R. Burns. “Meeting the Challenges of Healthcare Needs in India: Paths to Innovation.” In India’s Healthcare Hurdles. ISB Insight 9, no. 2 (October-December, 2011).
“Transforming India’s Vaccine Market: Saving Lives, Creating Value.” (PDF - 1.2MB). McKinsey & Company. Prepared for Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India. September 15, 2012.
India Healthcare: Comments, Opinions
Aggarwal, Anju. “National Standards of Care Quality Would Help India Enable Health Coverage for All.” BMJ 348 (2014):g3056.
Dandona, Lalit, V.M. Katoch and Rakhi Dandona. “Research to Achieve Health Care for all in India.” The Lancet 377 (2011): 1055-1057.
Gadre, Arun. “India’s Private Healthcare Sector Treats Patients as Revenue Generators.” The BMJ 350 (2015):h826.
Horton, Richard and Pam Das. “Indian Health: The Path from Crisis to Progress.” The Lancet 377, no. 9761 (2011): 181-183.
Nandraj, Sunil. “Private Healthcare Providers in India are Above the Law, Leaving Patients Without Protection.” The BMJ 350 (2015):h675.
Narayan, R. “Universal Health Care in India: Missing Core Determinants.” The Lancet 377, no. 9769 (2011): 883-885.
Healthcare in India: A Call for Innovative Reform (PDF). The National Bureau of Asian Research. December, 2012.
Patel, Vikram, et al. “Universal Health Care in India: The Time is Right.” The Lancet 377 (2011): 448-449.
Reddy, K. S., et al. “Towards Achievement of Universal Health Care in India by 2020: A Call to Action.” The Lancet 377 (2011): 760-768.
Sen, Binayak. “Securing the Right to Health for All in India.” The Lancet 377, no. 9765 (2011): 532-533.
Sengupta, Amit and Vandana Prasad. “Towards a Truly Universal Indian Health System.” The Lancet 377, no. 9767 (2011): 702-703.
India Insurance and Other Policy Issues
Golechha, Mahaveer. “The National Health Assurance Mission for India.” The Lancet 384, no. 9949 (2014): 1185-1186.
Healthcare Unwired: Health Insurance and Healthcare Access. India Health Progress, PWC. March, 2011.
Shetty, Devi. “How India can Provide Healthcare for All.” The BMJ 345 (2012):e7693.
Sood, Neeraj, et al. “Government Health Insurance for People Below Poverty Line in India: Quasi-experimental Evaluation of Insurance and Health Outcomes.” The BMJ 349 (2014):g5114.
India Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child Health
Gladstone, B.P., et al. “Infant Morbidity in an Indian Slum Birth Cohort.” _Archives of Diseases in Childhood_93, no. 6 (2008): 479-484.
Horton, Richard. “Offline: How Many Women Die in India?” The Lancet 383, no. 9931 (2014): 1792.
Joseph, Nitin, et al. “Morbidity among Infants in South India: A Longitudinal Study.” (PDF). Indian Journal of Pediatrics 77 (2010): 456-458.
Montogomery, Ann L. “The Effect of Health-facility Admission and Skilled Birth Attendant Coverage on Maternal Survival in India: A Case-control Analysis.” PLOS One 9, no. 6 (2014): e95696.
Paul, Vinod Kumar, et al. “Reproductive Health, and Child Health and Nutrition in India: Meeting the Challenge.” The Lancet 377, no. 9762 (2011): 332-349.
Prasad, R. “Fastest Decline in Child Mortality Rates Witnessed.” The Hindu. September 16, 2014.
Ram, Usha, et al. “Neonatal, 1–59 Month, and Under-5 Mortality in 597 Indian Districts, 2001 to 2012: Estimates from National Demographic and Mortality Surveys.” The Lancet Global Health 1, no. 4 (2013): e219-e226.
Sharma, Dinesh C. “India’s Sterilisation Scandal.” The Lancet 384 (2014): e68-e69.
Malnutrition
Crookston, Benjamin T. “Postinfancy Growth, Schooling, and Cognitive Achievement: Young Lives.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 98 (2013): 1555-1563.
Harish, Kamlesh. “Experience of Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers in Management of SAM.” Indian Pediatrics.
Rogers, Beatrice L. Perspective Paper: “Hunger and Malnutrition.” (PDF - 2.6MB). Copenhagen Consensus, 2012.
Deolalikar, Anil. Perspective Paper: “Hunger and Malnutrition.” (PDF - 2.4MB). Copenhagen Consensus, 2012.
Hoddinott, John, Mark Rosegrant, and Maximo Torero. Challenge Paper: “Hunger and Malnutrition.” (PDF - 2.9MB). Copenhagen Consensus, 2012.
Biswas, Asit K. and Cecilia Tortajada. “India’s Homemade Food Crisis.” Project Syndicate. August 8, 2014.
Atkuri, Ramani with Jan Swasthya Sahyog. “Layperson’s Guide to Nutrition and Malnutrition (PDF).” Friends of JSS Forever. April, 2013.
Sundaram, Jomo Kwame. “Rethinking Hunger.” Project Syndicate. October 30, 2014.
Wagh, Vijay D. and Bhawesh R. Deore. “Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF): An Overview.” Advances in Life Science and Health 2, no. 1 (2015): 1-15.
Pharmaceuticals, Medical Products
Berndt, E. R. and I. M. Cockburn. “The Hidden Cost of Low Prices: Limited Access to New Drugs in India.” Health Affairs 33, no. 9 (2014): 1567-1575.
Grover, Anand and Brian Citro. “India: Access to Affordable Drugs and the Right to Health.” The Lancet 377, no. 9770 (2011): 976-977.
“India Pharma 2020: Propelling Access and Acceptance, Realising True Potential.” (PDF). McKinsey & Company.
Bland, Jessica. “Refilling the Innovator’s Prescription: The New Wave of Medtech.” Conclusions for Silicon Valley Comes to the UK 2013. March 2014.
Yanagizawa-Drott, David. “Leakages and Market Failures in the Provision of Health Products.”
Prevention
Improving Support for Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention: Summary of Key Messages from Reports of the Institute of Medicine (PDF - 1.9MB). Carroll, Leigh and Bridge B. Kelly (eds.), Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, 2014.
Yach, Derek and Chris Calitz. “New Opportunities in the Changing Landscape of Prevention.” Journal of the American Medical Association 312, no. 8 (2014): 791-792.
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