Learnings

I am currently living in the hostel of my college and our teachers are nice enough to give us several opportunities. On 17th September, my friend and colleague Smruti called me and asked if I am interested in working as an extrenal monitor for Pulse polio Sub national Immmunization day from WHO. I was overjoyed and said yes immediately. Who will say know to this opportunity? I was not exactly aware of the work of an EM(External Moniotr), but was waiting for the training.  As I do not like going unprepared, I started reading every document I can find on pulse polio and guidelines. Still, was not able to find that what was my work? Next day, our training was taken by Surveillance Medical Officer of Ahmedabad. We had three hours of training in which through presentations and forms we learned the process of how to conduct this monitoring! The best thing was that attention at every single point is important. It goes for our normal teaching too. If you ignore even a single slide or zone...

  Introduction:- Amid lockdown, due to COVID-19, there are lots of talks of its impacts on economic growth. The economic growth and per capita GDP are two important indicators in the economy. It is vital to understand them as they can be confusing concerning other indicators. The most common confusion is the GDP and % growth of GDP which are two different indicators. Gross domestic product is defined as the total production within the boundary of the nation. Which is different than the GNP which deals with the ownership ( Factors affecting GDP of India , n.d.) . And The %growth in this GDP yearly is known as economic growth. The importance of economic growth is to understand the actual direction on which the country’s economy is going. Sometimes the country’s growth can be stagnant but if we look at only GDP it will not be so evident directly. In the older times, the physical sources were considered as the marks of growth as per the materialistic and ownership about with the dev...

Does discrimination drive gender differences in health expenditure on adults: Evidence from cancer patients in rural India Akansha Batra, Indrani Gupta, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay January 2014 Discussion Paper 14-03   Abstract: This paper focuses on and tries to investigate the role of gender discrimination in healthcare expenditure and treatment-seeking behavior in adults. The study had used a longitudinal survey in the rural settings of tertiary healthcare center of Odisha, India. Subjects that were undertaken were cancer patients and how much gender discrimination attributes to the difference in treatment expenditure. The research finds out after the detailed analysis that expenditure on females is significantly lesser than on males, and most of the difference is before coming to the tertiary center. Gender discrimination attributes to 73% of the difference in expenditure. This article will summarize and explain the use of study in various sectors of health. Introduction: H...