There is a long history of police in India, police always being an important instrument to maintain the law and order in society. Progress and development of any state requires the peace and maintenance of law and order. Sustainability of peace, in a society, can’t be imagined without a...

Health systems undergo demographic and with it associated epidemiological transition. They thus need manage change associated with this, which is continuous, incessant and speed and magnitude of change being dependent upon a multitude of contextual factors. Change management in health systems is...

The process of economic reforms in the 1990s has resulted in a paradigm shift in the health sector in India. This paper is a modest attempt to address these concerns by focussing on aspects of health equity interplay between private and public sector service providers, and determinants of...

Universal health coverage is "the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer" an assertion made by WHO Director General Margaret Chan shows the mounting worldwide attention given to coverage – particularly in less affluent countries - as a way to reduce financial...

In the mid-2000s, India began rolling out large-scale, publicly-financed health insurance schemes mostly targeting the poor. This paper describes and analyzes Andhra Pradesh's Aarogyasri scheme, which covers against the costs of around 900 high-cost procedures delivered in secondary and tertiary...