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Adoption of Health Technologies in India: Implications for the AIDS Vaccine
Author(s): Indrani Gupta (Author), Mayur Trivedi (Author), Subodh Kandamuthan (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Publication Date: 3 July 2007
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761935908
- ISBN-13: 9780761935902
Book Description
The first of its kind, this book examines the adoption of four health technologies in India-Hepatitis B, No Scalpel Vasectomy, Voluntary Counselling and Testing and Antiretroviral Treatment. Using a set of parameters, the authors not only bring to light the various dimensions, strengths and weaknesses of adoption of health technologies in India, but also how and where more attention needs to be paid with regard to the adoption of the AIDS vaccine.
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About the Author
Indrani Gupta is Professor and Head, Health Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. She is a member of the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the WHO South-East Asia Advisory Committee on Health Insurance. She has also been a consultant at the Policy Research Unit of the World Bank from 1991 to 1995, and a research analyst at the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of Maryland in 1991. She has written a number of reports and research papers on health and health technologies.
Mayur Trivedi is Assistant Professor, Health Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He has also worked as a consultant from 2003 to 2006 and as a project officer in 2003 at the Health Policy Research Unit of the Institute of Economic Growth. His main areas of interest being HIV/AIDS and health financing, he has written a number of papers and reports.
Subodh Kandamuthan is faculty in Health Economics, Institute of Health Systems, Hyderabad. A Ph.D. in economics from the Institute of Economic and Social Change, Bangalore, he has co-written a number of papers for various journals.
