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Posts by Rakhal Gaitonde

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Health in Kerala: exploring achievements and remaining challenges of health systems reform using an equity lens - International Journal for Equity in Health Background The southern Indian state of Kerala is often regarded as a global model for its impressive health outcomes at a low cost. While the state consistently invests in healthcare and showcases re...

Those on here who are interested in Health Inequity, in LMIC may be interested in this article - editorial to a special issue of Intl Journal of Equity and Health
equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
The whole special issue - www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
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The Paradox of a Public Healthcare System: The case of Male Workers Processing e-waste in slums of a South Indian City India is the third largest producer of e-waste, and approximately 90% of it gets processed in the unorganized sector. A report by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCE...

A blog on one of the many axes that affect access to health care. This one focusing on a less studied group - young men.... co-authored with Sapna Mishra www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art...

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In other words science is one way of making sense of the world. A successful (?) way. And one many of us use. But I would not say the only way. As scientists our commitment is to understanding the world and not to the methods......IMHO.

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Not so sure, I guess it all depends on how you define science. In terms of thinking new ideas I think there are many ways .... indigenous knowledge systems would be just one example?

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