The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewed to identify and explore the processes that reinforced or helped them escape the situation of...

Lead recycling is often supported through a well-functioning Deposit Refund System (DRS) in the market for batteries (branded and generic). In this system, people can get a discount on the purchase of a new battery if they return the used one to the retailer. While a DRS has existed in the...

Some questions relevant in the context of ethics in social science research are: Does social science have peculiarities which are masked by discussions on science at large? Given the need for objectivity in scientific inquiry can theory laden-ness be kept sufficiently distinct from value...

Recently, enormous efforts to measure the quality of healthcare have been made to attain information on ways to improve the quality of healthcare. However, this area of research is still at an early stage of development and more research is required. This article outlines a framework by which...

Introduction: The ability of observational studies to draw conclusions on causal relationships between covariates and outcomes can be improved by incorporating randomly matched controls using the propensity scoring method. This procedure controls for pre-program differences between the enrolled...

Most health management programs, such as disease management or health promotion/wellness interventions, implement targeted interventions for an identified high-risk group, leaving the remaining non-managed lower-risk population as controls. This is problematic from an outcomes perspective...