Cancer has both social and economic implications in India. The stigma associated with cancer is known to leave a psychosocial impact that alters the health seeking behavior of the patient. The prolonged treatment often impoverishes the household. The mortality rate due to cancer is high, at sixty eight percent of the annual incidence. Fewer than…

Allopathic medicine in India dates back to the 1600s when medical officers arrived in India with the British East India Company ship surgeons. After the reigns of the Indian Subcontinent or Erstwhile India were taken over by the Company in 1757, the first medical department was setup in Bengal presidency, present day West Bengal and…

In this second blog post of the series on the National Sample Survey, we discuss some of the changes in how Indians have used health services over the last thirty years.

In this first blog post of the series, we discuss the summary findings for the states where ACCESS Health has experience working on health seeking behavior, for both primary care and hospital care.

Dwari is a small village in Madhya Pradesh, India. The village is plagued by a social epidemic called untouchability.

In the third blog post, we introduced several leading private sector innovators in primary care. In this blog post, we revisit some of those innovators as we discuss noncommunicable diseases and technologies that support early diagnosis and prompt treatment.