Existing situation in India is marked by laudable health indicators in terms of increased life expectancy which doubled since independence and eradication of some of the preventable diseases. Yet the main concern continues both for the policy makers and people in terms of inequity of health...

Acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea globally identified as poising major threats to survival of children under the age of five. This is also true for India, where these two diseases have been the major causes behind infant mortality both in 1997 as well as 1998. Prevention as well as...