Summary Successive Governments of India have promised to transform India's
unsatisfactory health-care system, culminating in the present government's promise to …

Abstract Background In India, Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs)
are participatory community health forums, but there is little information about their …

Various attempts have been made in India with respect to decentralization, most significantly
the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution of India (1993) which provided the necessary legal …

Health committees are a common strategy to foster community participation in health. Efforts
to strengthen committees often focus on technical inputs to improve committee form (eg …

India is home to the largest population of indigenous tribes in the world. Despite initiative of
the National Rural Health Mission, now National Health Mission (NHM) and various tribal …

Background: Community participation is one of the core principles of primary healthcare.
The village health nutrition and sanitation committee (VHNSC), one of the elements in …

Abstract The Government of India has adopted decentralization/devolution as a vehicle for
promoting greater equity and supporting people-centred, responsive health systems. This …

Abstract The Participatory Approach for Nutrition in Children: Strengthening Health,
Education, Engineering and Environment Linkages (PANChSHEEEL) project is a …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide systematic empirical evidence on the
health planning through Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs) in …

Globalization has facilitated fast spread of COVID-19 cutting across political boundaries and
even the remote locations have not been spared. Spread of the contagion is studied in the …