Articles and Reports:

• The Primary Health Care Approach to Leprosy, Mabelle and Raj Arole [ 100KB]

• Intersectoral Coordination for Primary Health Care, Arole, R. S. [ 141KB]

• Jamkhed Institute for CBPHC: The Evolution of a World Training Center, Mabelle and Raj Arole [ 133KB]

• Empowerment of Women and Mental Health Promotion: a qualitative study in rural Maharashtra, India, Kermode, M., et al.      [ 173KB]

• Efficient and Effective Emergency Obstetric Care in a Rural Indian Community Where Most Deliveries are at Home, McCord, C., et al. [ 367KB]

• Editor's Commentary: Efficient and Effective Emergency Obstetric Care in a Rural Indian Community Where Most Deliveries are at Home, Fortney, J. A. [ 267KB]

• Improving Women's Health Through Appropriate Home Delivery, Arole, R. S., et al. [ 83KB]

• Promoting Mental Health: Concepts, Emerging Evidence, Practice; Summary Report, WHO [ 923KB]

• A Comprehensive Approach to Community Welfare: Growth Monitoring and the Role of Women in Jamkhed, Mabelle Arole [ 98KB]

• Health by the People: The Control of TB Using a Community-Based Primary Health Care Approach in Jamkhed, India, Sangarlangkarn, A., et al. [ 958KB]

• Prevalence of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women in Remote Rural Areas of Maharashtra State, India [ 292KB]

• Community Links for Sustainable Health Care, Arole, S. [ 420KB]

• Slow Sand Filtration, Huisman, L., Wood, W. E. [ 6.59MB]

• Doctors for the World: Indian Physician Emigration, Mullan, F. [ 168KB]

• Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences, Black, R. E., et al. Lancet 2008; 371:243-260 [ 1.16MB]

• The State of the World's Children, 2008: Child Survival, UNICEF [ 4.33MB]

• Faith-Based Models for Improving Maternal and Newborn Health. (2007) Chand, S., Patterson, J.[ 338KB]

Spotlight:   Rural Issues: Farmer Suicides in Maharashtra

Watch this documentary from Wide Angle of PBS, The Dying Fields, to learn more about the local and global issues responsible for the growing indebtedness and desperation among many farmers in India's impoverished rural areas.

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