Economy & Policy

Despite Increased Spending, Health Outcomes Remain Poor in Backward...
Mumbai: The Covid-19 pandemic, and particularly its second wave, exposed serious deficiencies in the public health...
How A Year of Covid-19 Financially Dented India's Middle Class
New Delhi: When the second wave of Covid-19 was beginning its steep climb in India in April 2021 and most states were...

Covid Lockdowns Leave Migrant Workers Struggling For Healthcare, Vaccination
Ahmedabad: Routinely excluded from urban healthcare systems, India's migrant workers struggled to find medical help for...

'Countries With Leaders Supporting Science See Better Outcomes'
Mumbai: In 2005, then United States President George W. Bush read a book called The Great Influenza by John M. Barry on...

How Incomplete Health Data On Adolescents Hamper Policy Design
New Delhi: India routinely misestimates thinness, overweight and stunting among adolescents because official data...

'We Should Build A Political Demand For High Quality Healthcare For All'
Mumbai: "India's economy rides on the health of its people", wrote K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health...
