Rajib Dasgupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3678468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajib Dasgupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajib |
| FAMILY NAME | Dasgupta |
| SIGNATURE | DASGUPTA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0609-9796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Barriers in reaching new-borns and infants through home visits
Background: assessment documented the constraints faced by the community health workers (known as the Accredited Social Health Activists, ASHAs) to accomplish home visitation and deliver quality services in a poor-performing district and co-created the strategies to overcome these using a nexus planning approach. Methods: The study was conducted in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, India. The grounded theory approach was applied for data col…
Community engagement
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a One Health problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours. This is particularly so in low - and middle-income countries (LMICs), where social and systemic factors fuel (mis)use and drive AMR. Behavioural change around antimicrobial use could safeguard both existing and future treatments. However, changing behaviour necessitates engaging with people to understand their experiences. This publication descri…
Flies without Borders
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 …
Uncovering Coverage
In 2013, the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) was rolled out to effectively address health concerns of the urban poor population. In the last decade, there has been a spate of publicly funded insurance schemes, prominent amongst them being the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). In 2012, the Government of Chhattisgarh expanded the RSBY into a new avatar, the Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojana (MSBY), thereby universalising health insurance …
What the Good Doctor Said
The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a state funded health insurance scheme targeted for families below poverty line (BPL) in India providing a coverage of ₹30,000 for a family of five. This qualitative study covered three districts in Chhattisgarh, India, and included empanelled private for-profit, public and not-for-profit institutions. RSBY beneficiaries constituted a miniscule proportion of the total patient load in large multispecial…
Smallpox and polio eradication in India
This article argues that a detailed examination of factors contributing to the development of complex structures and strategies for smallpox eradication in South Asia in the 1970s can provide fruitful indications for the reformulation of the national chapters of the global polio eradication programme in this region. There is a magnificent archive in the WHO's Geneva offices, which details how smallpox eradication outbreaks were located and then c…
A Tale of Two Global Health Programs Smallpox Eradication's Lessons for the Antipolio Campaign in India
India provided one of the most challenging chapters of the worldwide smallpox eradication program. The campaign was converted from a project in which a handful of officials tried to impose their ideas on a complex health bureaucracy to one in which its components were constantly adapted to the requirements of a variety of social, political, and economic contexts. This change, achieved mainly through the active participation of workers drawn from …
The sustainability of hepatitis B immunization within the Universal Immunization Programme in India
Based on the recommendations of the World Health Organization, India as a member-state is likely to implement universal immunization against hepatitis B through the existing Universal Immunization Programme (UIP). A pilot project is already under progress in two municipal zones of Delhi. This paper begins by reviewing epidemiological features of hepatitis B in India, some established aspects and other emerging trends. The gaps in the existing kno…
What the Good Doctor Said
The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a state funded health insurance scheme targeted for families below poverty line (BPL) in India providing a coverage of ₹30,000 for a family of five. This qualitative study covered three districts in Chhattisgarh, India, and included empanelled private for-profit, public and not-for-profit institutions. RSBY beneficiaries constituted a miniscule proportion of the total patient load in large multispecial…
A Tale of Two Global Health Programs Smallpox Eradication's Lessons for the Antipolio Campaign in India
India provided one of the most challenging chapters of the worldwide smallpox eradication program. The campaign was converted from a project in which a handful of officials tried to impose their ideas on a complex health bureaucracy to one in which its components were constantly adapted to the requirements of a variety of social, political, and economic contexts. This change, achieved mainly through the active participation of workers drawn from …
The sustainability of hepatitis B immunization within the Universal Immunization Programme in India
Based on the recommendations of the World Health Organization, India as a member-state is likely to implement universal immunization against hepatitis B through the existing Universal Immunization Programme (UIP). A pilot project is already under progress in two municipal zones of Delhi. This paper begins by reviewing epidemiological features of hepatitis B in India, some established aspects and other emerging trends. The gaps in the existing kno…
A Tale of Two Global Health Programs Smallpox Eradication's Lessons for the Antipolio Campaign in India
India provided one of the most challenging chapters of the worldwide smallpox eradication program. The campaign was converted from a project in which a handful of officials tried to impose their ideas on a complex health bureaucracy to one in which its components were constantly adapted to the requirements of a variety of social, political, and economic contexts. This change, achieved mainly through the active participation of workers drawn from …
Smallpox and polio eradication in India
This article argues that a detailed examination of factors contributing to the development of complex structures and strategies for smallpox eradication in South Asia in the 1970s can provide fruitful indications for the reformulation of the national chapters of the global polio eradication programme in this region. There is a magnificent archive in the WHO's Geneva offices, which details how smallpox eradication outbreaks were located and then c…
What the Good Doctor Said
The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a state funded health insurance scheme targeted for families below poverty line (BPL) in India providing a coverage of ₹30,000 for a family of five. This qualitative study covered three districts in Chhattisgarh, India, and included empanelled private for-profit, public and not-for-profit institutions. RSBY beneficiaries constituted a miniscule proportion of the total patient load in large multispecial…
Uncovering Coverage
In 2013, the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) was rolled out to effectively address health concerns of the urban poor population. In the last decade, there has been a spate of publicly funded insurance schemes, prominent amongst them being the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY). In 2012, the Government of Chhattisgarh expanded the RSBY into a new avatar, the Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojana (MSBY), thereby universalising health insurance …
Flies without Borders
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 …
Community engagement
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a One Health problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours. This is particularly so in low - and middle-income countries (LMICs), where social and systemic factors fuel (mis)use and drive AMR. Behavioural change around antimicrobial use could safeguard both existing and future treatments. However, changing behaviour necessitates engaging with people to understand their experiences. This publication descri…
Barriers in reaching new-borns and infants through home visits
Background: assessment documented the constraints faced by the community health workers (known as the Accredited Social Health Activists, ASHAs) to accomplish home visitation and deliver quality services in a poor-performing district and co-created the strategies to overcome these using a nexus planning approach. Methods: The study was conducted in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, India. The grounded theory approach was applied for data col…
Medicine (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Poliomyelitis (3 works) · Political science (3 works)