Arima Mishra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arima Mishra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arima |
| FAMILY NAME | Mishra |
| SIGNATURE | MISHRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Azim Premji University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7218-9322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
RollBackRTH
The role and influence of interest groups in the healthcare sector, such as the hospital industry, insurers or physicians, are critical aspects of understanding health politics. Yet, scholarship examining the interests and actions of these actors has been surprisingly limited in health politics scholarship on Global South contexts. In India, national- and sub-national health sector reform debates have gained traction. The country's vast, underreg…
Associations, unions and everything in between
Associations, unions and other organised groups representing health workers play a significant role in the development, adoption and implementation of health policy. These representative health worker organisations (RHWOs) are a key interface between employers, governments and their members (both actual and claimed), with varying degrees of influence and authority within and across countries. Existing research in global health often assumes—rathe…
Body as machine
Even though garment factory work has attracted women in large numbers in urban and peri-urban settings in low- and -middle income countries including India, there is relatively limited health system research on identifying and addressing the health vulnerability of this workforce. Drawing on data on life histories of women workers (n = 16), semi-structured interviews with others including family members of deceased workers, health professionals, …
Gynaecological Cancers in India
There has been mounting evidence on the role of healthcare providers in chronic illnesses such as cancer. The specific complexities in their roles to enable health are less heard. Gynaecological cancers have several undercurrents beyond the obvious. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare providers in Southern India ( n = 35) and the data presented in this article were collected as a part of a larger study on the role of communi…
Power analysis in health policy and systems research
Power is a growing area of study for researchers and practitioners working in the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR). Theoretical development and empirical research on power are crucial for providing deeper, more nuanced understandings of the mechanisms and structures leading to social inequities and health disparities; placing contemporary policy concerns in a wider historical, political and social context; and for contributing t…
Perceived Health Impacts of Watershed Development Projects in Southern India
Watershed development (WSD) projects-planned for over 100 million ha in semi-arid areas of India-should enhance soil and water conservation, agricultural productivity and local livelihood, and contribute to better nutrition and health. Yet, little is known about the health impacts of WSD projects, especially on nutrition, vector breeding, water quality and the distribution of impacts. We conducted a qualitative study to deepen the understanding o…
A light inside a pot’
Medicine and healing have been critical elements of nation-building and governance in India. There is a clear hierarchy: biomedicine, followed by systems like Ayurveda which are to be 'mainstreamed,' and local health traditions, which are to be 'revitalised'. Mindful that power nonetheless resides in positions of marginality, this analysis drew from a health system ethnography on revitalisation of local health traditions in three southern Indian …
On the unraveling of ‘revitalization of local health traditions’ in India
Were we not enabled by ethnography as a method that changes its shape apace with emerging findings, we would have not been able to comprehensively answer our questions. This is critical because not only was this already a marginalized area of inquiry, but with any other method we risked reinforcing inequities by imposing epistemological and other hierarchies on our participants- whom we would argue were partners - in arriving at our conclusions
Safe’, yet violent? Women’s experiences with obstetric violence during hospital births in rural Northeast India
The majority of maternal health interventions in India focus on increasing institutional deliveries to reduce maternal mortality, typically by incentivising village health workers to register births and making conditional cash transfers to mothers for hospital births. Based on over 15 months of ethnographically informed fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 in rural Assam, the Indian state with the highest recorded rate of maternal deaths, we…
Best Resources on Power in Health Policy and Systems in Low- And Middle-Income Countries
Power is a critical concept to understand and transform health policy and systems. Power manifests implicitly or explicitly at multiple levels-local, national and global-and is present at each actor interface, therefore shaping all actions, processes and outcomes. Analysing and engaging with power has important potential for improving our understanding of the underlying causes of inequity, and our ability to promote transparency, accountability a…
A Real Man
No abstract available. (Published: 14 December 2016) Citation: Glob Health Action 2016, 9 : 34140 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.34140
V. Sujatha, Sociology of Health and Medicine
Trust and teamwork matter’
A comprehensive and integrated approach to strengthen primary health care has been the major thrust of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) that was launched in 2005 to revamp India's rural public health system. Though the logic of horizontal and integrated health care to strengthen health systems has long been acknowledged at policy level, empirical evidence on how such integration operates is rare. Based on recent (2011–2012) ethnographic f…
Politics and practices of global health
Over the past decade, growing recognition that weak health systems threaten global health progress has galvanised renewed global and national commitment to strengthening health systems (Hafner & Sh
Constraints faced by urban poor in managing diabetes care
BACKGROUND: Four out of five adults with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). India has the second highest number of diabetes patients in the world. Despite a huge burden, diabetes care remains suboptimal. While patients (and families) play an important role in managing chronic conditions, there is a dearth of studies in LMIC and virtually none in India capturing perspectives and experiences of patients in regard to diabetes …
Engaging with the discourse on lifestyle modifications
Lifestyle modifications through a range of health care practices are considered central to the management, control and prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases. While there is a critical perspective on the epistemologies of such global health discourses in existing literature, empirical evidence on how people engage with such prescriptive lifestyle modifications in different cultural contexts is very limited. The paper in this context draw…
Hunger and famine in Kalahandi
Recipes for Immortality
Teaching Medical Anthropology in India
Best Resources on Power in Health Policy and Systems in Low- And Middle-Income Countries
Power is a critical concept to understand and transform health policy and systems. Power manifests implicitly or explicitly at multiple levels-local, national and global-and is present at each actor interface, therefore shaping all actions, processes and outcomes. Analysing and engaging with power has important potential for improving our understanding of the underlying causes of inequity, and our ability to promote transparency, accountability a…
Teaching Medical Anthropology in India
Teaching Medical Anthropology in India
Hunger and famine in Kalahandi
Recipes for Immortality
Engaging with the discourse on lifestyle modifications
Lifestyle modifications through a range of health care practices are considered central to the management, control and prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases. While there is a critical perspective on the epistemologies of such global health discourses in existing literature, empirical evidence on how people engage with such prescriptive lifestyle modifications in different cultural contexts is very limited. The paper in this context draw…
Constraints faced by urban poor in managing diabetes care
BACKGROUND: Four out of five adults with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). India has the second highest number of diabetes patients in the world. Despite a huge burden, diabetes care remains suboptimal. While patients (and families) play an important role in managing chronic conditions, there is a dearth of studies in LMIC and virtually none in India capturing perspectives and experiences of patients in regard to diabetes …
Trust and teamwork matter’
A comprehensive and integrated approach to strengthen primary health care has been the major thrust of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) that was launched in 2005 to revamp India's rural public health system. Though the logic of horizontal and integrated health care to strengthen health systems has long been acknowledged at policy level, empirical evidence on how such integration operates is rare. Based on recent (2011–2012) ethnographic f…
Politics and practices of global health
Over the past decade, growing recognition that weak health systems threaten global health progress has galvanised renewed global and national commitment to strengthening health systems (Hafner & Sh
V. Sujatha, Sociology of Health and Medicine
A Real Man
No abstract available. (Published: 14 December 2016) Citation: Glob Health Action 2016, 9 : 34140 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.34140
On the unraveling of ‘revitalization of local health traditions’ in India
Were we not enabled by ethnography as a method that changes its shape apace with emerging findings, we would have not been able to comprehensively answer our questions. This is critical because not only was this already a marginalized area of inquiry, but with any other method we risked reinforcing inequities by imposing epistemological and other hierarchies on our participants- whom we would argue were partners - in arriving at our conclusions
Safe’, yet violent? Women’s experiences with obstetric violence during hospital births in rural Northeast India
The majority of maternal health interventions in India focus on increasing institutional deliveries to reduce maternal mortality, typically by incentivising village health workers to register births and making conditional cash transfers to mothers for hospital births. Based on over 15 months of ethnographically informed fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 in rural Assam, the Indian state with the highest recorded rate of maternal deaths, we…
Best Resources on Power in Health Policy and Systems in Low- And Middle-Income Countries
Power is a critical concept to understand and transform health policy and systems. Power manifests implicitly or explicitly at multiple levels-local, national and global-and is present at each actor interface, therefore shaping all actions, processes and outcomes. Analysing and engaging with power has important potential for improving our understanding of the underlying causes of inequity, and our ability to promote transparency, accountability a…
A light inside a pot’
Medicine and healing have been critical elements of nation-building and governance in India. There is a clear hierarchy: biomedicine, followed by systems like Ayurveda which are to be 'mainstreamed,' and local health traditions, which are to be 'revitalised'. Mindful that power nonetheless resides in positions of marginality, this analysis drew from a health system ethnography on revitalisation of local health traditions in three southern Indian …
Perceived Health Impacts of Watershed Development Projects in Southern India
Watershed development (WSD) projects-planned for over 100 million ha in semi-arid areas of India-should enhance soil and water conservation, agricultural productivity and local livelihood, and contribute to better nutrition and health. Yet, little is known about the health impacts of WSD projects, especially on nutrition, vector breeding, water quality and the distribution of impacts. We conducted a qualitative study to deepen the understanding o…
Power analysis in health policy and systems research
Power is a growing area of study for researchers and practitioners working in the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR). Theoretical development and empirical research on power are crucial for providing deeper, more nuanced understandings of the mechanisms and structures leading to social inequities and health disparities; placing contemporary policy concerns in a wider historical, political and social context; and for contributing t…
Associations, unions and everything in between
Associations, unions and other organised groups representing health workers play a significant role in the development, adoption and implementation of health policy. These representative health worker organisations (RHWOs) are a key interface between employers, governments and their members (both actual and claimed), with varying degrees of influence and authority within and across countries. Existing research in global health often assumes—rathe…
Body as machine
Even though garment factory work has attracted women in large numbers in urban and peri-urban settings in low- and -middle income countries including India, there is relatively limited health system research on identifying and addressing the health vulnerability of this workforce. Drawing on data on life histories of women workers (n = 16), semi-structured interviews with others including family members of deceased workers, health professionals, …
Gynaecological Cancers in India
There has been mounting evidence on the role of healthcare providers in chronic illnesses such as cancer. The specific complexities in their roles to enable health are less heard. Gynaecological cancers have several undercurrents beyond the obvious. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare providers in Southern India ( n = 35) and the data presented in this article were collected as a part of a larger study on the role of communi…
RollBackRTH
The role and influence of interest groups in the healthcare sector, such as the hospital industry, insurers or physicians, are critical aspects of understanding health politics. Yet, scholarship examining the interests and actions of these actors has been surprisingly limited in health politics scholarship on Global South contexts. In India, national- and sub-national health sector reform debates have gained traction. The country's vast, underreg…
Sociology (16 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (7 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (7 works) · Health care (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)