Vikas Gothalwal

Biographic Data

ID9022096
NAMEVikas Gothalwal
GIVEN NAMESVikas
FAMILY NAMEGothalwal
SIGNATUREGOTHALWAL V
AFFILIATIONSIndia Health Action Trust
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Lessons learned from redesigning public health medicines supply chain model in Uttar Pradesh, India

    Open AccessVasanthakumar Namasivayam, Manuj Purwar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Uttar Pradesh (UP), the most populous state of India with 238 million people, has over 30,000 public health facilities. Ensuring the continuous availability of essential medicines across these facilities is a significant challenge. An audit conducted in 2017 indicated large gaps in the availability of essential medicines in public health facilities. This study describes the lessons from Tamil Nadu’s Medical Supplies Corporation (TNMSC) that were …

  • Facilities are substantially more influential than care providers in the quality of delivery care received

    Open AccessSarah M Helfinstein, Sarah Helfinstein et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Improving the quality of care during childbirth is essential for reducing neonatal and maternal mortality. One barrier to improving quality of care is understanding the appropriate level to target interventions. We examine quality of care data during labour and delivery from multiple countries to assess whether quality varies primarily from nurse to nurse within the same facility, or primarily between facilities. METHODS: To assess …

  • Closing the gap on institutional delivery in northern India

    Open AccessVincent Huang, Vincent S Huang et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Meeting ambitious global health goals with limited resources requires a precision public health (PxPH) approach. Here we describe how integrating data collection optimisation, traditional analytics and causal artificial intelligence/machine learning (ML) can be used in a use case for increasing hospital deliveries of newborns in Uttar Pradesh, India. METHODS: Using a systematic behavioural framework we designed a large-scale survey …

  • The contribution of district prioritization on maternal and newborn health interventions coverage in rural India

    Open AccessBM Ramesh, Bidyadhar Dehury et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: In 2001, India prioritized eight most socioeconomically disadvantaged states known as Empowered Action Group (EAG) states and in 2013, it prioritized 190 of the 718 as high priority districts (HPDs) to accelerate the decline in maternal and newborn mortality. This paper assesses whether the HPDs achieved a greater coverage of maternal and newborn health interventions than the non-HPDs and HPDs in EAG states achieved greater coverage t…