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Monica Das Gupta quoted in LiveMint on India's Lagged Public Health System
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Decades of neglect have left India’s public health system with a very weak arsenal to fight and eliminate contagious diseases
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Flies Without Borders - Lessons from Chennai on Improving India's Municipal Public Health Services
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India’s cities face key challenges to improving public health outcomes. First, unequally distributed public resources create insanitary conditions, especially in slums – threatening everyone’s health, as suggested by poor child growth even amongst the wealthiest. Second, devolving services to elected bodies works poorly for highly technical services like public health. Third, services are highly fragmented. This paper examines the differences in the organisation and management of municipal services in Chennai and Delhi, two cities with sharply contrasting health indicators. Chennai mitigates these challenges by retaining professional management of service delivery and actively serving vulnerable populations − while services in Delhi are quite constrained. Management and institutional issues have received inadequate attention in the public health literature on developing countries, and the policy lessons from Chennai have wide relevance.
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Monica Das Gupta Publications
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"Missing Girls" in the South Caucasus Countries: Trends, Possible Causes, and Policy Options
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland // Keywords: Gender, Poverty, Economic Shocks, Social Protection, Governance, Health, Population; JEL codes: D13, H31, H55, J13, J16, P31; 2017-004
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Flies Without Borders: Lessons from Chennai on improving India’s municipal public health services
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland, et al. // Keywords: Public health, Sanitation, Urban, Local government, India, Governance, Devolution; 2017-005
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Is banning sex-selection the best approach for reducing prenatal discrimination ?
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland // Keywords: Son preference, abortion bans, gender, policy measures, China, India; 2017-003
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Das Gupta research cited in Gorakhpur tragedy story
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Opinion piece calls to make "provision of public goods" central to Indian democracy
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Culture and Population Working Group Meeting
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Elizabeth Karberg (Dept of Human Development), “Examining the effects of union stability on the family system: Implications for children’s socio-emotional development”
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Culture and Population Working Group Meeting
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Natasha Cabrera (Dept of Human Development), “Disentangling the associations between Latino mothers’ and fathers’ socioeconomic and immigrant status and toddler’s cognitive and social skills”
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Culture and Population Working Group Meeting
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Sandra Hofferth (Dept of Family Science) and U.J. Moon (MPRC), “Parental Expectations and Childhood Activities in Immigrant Transitions to Adulthood"
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The Organization of Preventive Health Services in Sri Lanka: Lessons for developing countries
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland / World Bank; KCS Dalpatadu, Institute for Health Policy, Colombo; CK Shanmugarajah, Ministry of Health, Government of Sri Lanka; HMSSD Herath, Sri Lanka Medical Council; 2014-006
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