Tag: Health & Nutrition
How Ayushman Bharat Got a Silent Boost In The Budget
The Wire’s health reporter Anoo Bhuyan is in conversation with Avani Kapur, director of Accountability Initiative and Indranil Mukhopadhaya, professor of Jindal University about the health budget which was passed on 1st February.
Poorest & uneducated mothers benefit least from healthcare services: Study
While the poorest households had the highest utilisation of ICDS services in 2006, their share became the second lowest in 2016.
As Health Crises Grow, 29% Of Funds With States Not Spent In 5 Years
Even as health crises in India grew, National Health Mission (NHM) funds unspent by states over five years to 2016 increased by 29%, according to a recent audit by the government’s auditor. The audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India also reported delayed transfers and misallocation of these funds.
Child health in India: 14 out of 20 states cut spending on key programmes
The child-care funding cuts come at a time when the central government reduced its allocations to the ministry of women and child development over two years to 2016-17.
Decentralised Approach to Tackling Nutrition
What is required is a holistic and comprehensive plan to nutrition.
National Health Mission needs a leg up
The National Health Policy 2017 envisages raising public health expenditure progressively to 2.5% of the GDP by 2025
Budget 2018: National Health Mission- The institutional barrier
Even as the new National Health Policy of 2017 urges a widening of the service net, can outcomes improve without reform of underlying institutional shortcomings?
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं को इलाज की जरूरत
हर साल बजट पेश होने के बाद सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य पर होने वाली बहस सिर्फ एक आंकड़े के इर्द-गिर्द सिमट जाती है।
Gorakhpur tragedy a reminder of all that ails India’s public funds management
For years, red tape has meant that departments have failed to secure and utilise all of their funding, which has often led to critical work being affected.