Health News India

Curating & RTing news, analysis and information on #publichealth, #healthpolicy & #healthsystems in #India.

[Health News India @HealthNewsIndia]

Application info for the Takemi Fellowship! https://t.co/6ocKUoORuI

[Health News India @HealthNewsIndia]

Check out the @HarvardChanSPH Fogarty LMIC Post-doctoral fellowships: https://t.co/HeS7P4ZxLb

[Vikash R. Keshri, MD, PhD @docVRK]

#Burns related death is one of the leading cause of #injury deaths, disability, deformity & social stigma. The absence of preventive measures in leading tertiary care #hospital in #Delhi reiterates casual approach & low prioritization of this issue. @jjagnoor80 @GeorgeInstIN

[Mrigank Warrier @MrigankWarrier]

I wrote for @scroll_in about the astounding team of psychiatric social workers that helps Magsaysay winner Dr Bharat Vatwani rescue, treat and reunite abandoned mentally ill patients with their families. https://t.co/7bjke9I7bf

[Health News India @HealthNewsIndia]

Dental public health—Why is it important in India? https://t.co/uyduWYWtTj

[Kabir Sheikh @docsheikh]

Articles invited on innovations in methods, approaches, governance of research on implementation of public health policies & programmes in LMICs: joint @AllianceHPSR @HPP_LSHTM call https://t.co/K3VltiL03c

[Healthy Behaviors @humansandhealth]

Chronic diseases in India have been growing at a fast pace.
Read the full paper:
https://t.co/GfoXS6UDSU

@ncdalliance @MoHFW_INDIA @HealthNewsIndia @WHOSEARO @JAMA_current
#humansandhealth #epiindia #epitwitter

[Vikash R. Keshri, MD, PhD @docVRK]

Harvest of Uteruses! a classic commentary highlighting a classic example of elite capture of two industries #sugarcane & #healthcare resulting in extreme extraction of the weaker section in an unregulated market economy
@jsa_india @PHMglobal @epw_in
https://t.co/GhIWtvLXv9

[Rakhal Gaitonde @rakhalgaitonde]

Very happy to share my latest publication along with VR Muraleedharan, Miguel SanSebastisn and Anna-Karin Hurtig. in #Harpsjournal hope this contributes to a better understanding of implementing interventions for accountability.
https://t.co/lbMomsf94L

[Noora Health @NooraHealth]

“Through this programme, the relatives of medical & surgical patients would be trained on how to care for their loved ones while still in hospitals, so that the patients have smoother transitions and better outcomes at home."

https://t.co/lIuETXaNFm

[ @Patralekha2011 পত্রলেখা চ্যাটার্জী @patralekha2011]

My latest report in @TheLancet.
The lychee is not the primary cause”, John told The Lancet. “You have to fix the primary health-care system and the gross malnutrition. No child from a well-to-do family has ever suffered because he or she ate lychees.”
https://t.co/7iWCBuerKn

[দৰদী @DorodiSharma]

IMP #publichealth thread. Anti-rabies vaccines unavailable in a country that has the largest manufacturer in the world. ARVs get higher prices on export over being sold in India. Delhi has stock only for 2 months. Why is no one talking about this? #vaccines #rabies @MoHFW_INDIA

[Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) @thePHFI]

Applications open for a Research Fellowship Programme: 18-month fellowship programme on “Strengthening Gender Equity and Intersectionality” in Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR). @thePHFI @@UNU_IIGH @WHOSEARO @AllianceHPSR @gita_sen #research #fellowship #publichealth

[Jitamanyu Sahoo @jitamanyusahoo]

Who will bear the burden of the deaths?
Who will bear the weight of absence of one soul in a family?
Who will bear the burden of the dysfunctional health system?
Who will bear the burden of assurances of dismantled hope?
- The State
@AE_Yamin
@sujakrao
https://t.co/z8jfFV6twU

[Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) @thePHFI]

In 15 years, under-5 child deaths in India halved: Lancet study via @htTweets https://t.co/NUdSKFZKyE @sanchx

[Health News India @HealthNewsIndia]

Majority of Indians devoid of hypertension treatment: Study https://t.co/zKV2s7A3q1

[Ankur Paliwal @Ankur_pali]

Everyone is worried whether or not Indian infants would get better 4-in-1 HIV drugs. Infants with HIV are less in number so ignored by big pharma companies. @Cipla_Global and Mylan making those drugs don’t reveal their plans. My story for @bsindia
@DNDi @MSF

[Health News India @HealthNewsIndia]

Drug-Eluting Stent Use Among Low-Income Patients in Maharashtra After Statewide Price Reductions | Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions https://t.co/pf7dCpdiVZ

[The Quint @TheQuint]

‘What is it like to be the only woman in most rooms?’ @GarvitaKhybri asks scientist Gagandeep Kang who is the first Indian woman to become a Royal Society fellow. (via @QuintNeon)
Read more: https://t.co/bkV5ul39Vl