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Item Assessing the time use and payments of multipurpose community health workers for the various roles they play-a quantitative study of the Mitanin programme in India(BMC Health Services Research, 2022) Samir Garg; Mukesh Dewangan; Prabodh Nanda; C. Krishnendhu; Ashu Sahu; Lalita XalxoThe study aims to examine the time multipurpose CHWs spend on performing their different roles. This can help in understanding the importance they attach to each role.Item How much do government and households spend on an episode of hospitalisation in India? A comparison for public and private hospitals in Chhattisgarh state(Health Economics Review, 2022) Samir Garg; Narayan Tripathi; Alok Ranjan; Kirtti Kumar BebartaThis study assesses the combined spending by government and households per episode of hospitalisation.Item How useful do communities find the health and wellness centres? A qualitative assessment of India’s new policy for primary health care(BMC Primary Care volume 25, Article number: 91 (2024), 2024) Shriyuta Abhishek; Samir Garg; Vikash Ranjan KeshriStarting in 2018, Indian government has established more than 100,000 Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) to increase rural population’s access to primary health care. It is crucial to know how useful people find the services of HWCs.Item Learning to Sustain Change: Mitanin Community Health Workers Promote Public Accountability in India(2018) Samir Garg; Suchi PandeThe Accountability Note- illustrates how Community Health Worker program (Mitanin) in Chattisgarh as service providers and community leaders has developed an evolving learning strategy by involving the State and civil society actors to sustain action on public accountability of health system and connect communities with government health care services. The document also shows that CHWs can simultaneously work as health care providers and build and sustain accountability. Besidses, it shows how the program has taken a form of movement-building approach to public health rather than just being a narrow targeted intervention.Item Performance of India’s national publicly funded health insurance scheme, PMJAY, in improving access and financial protection for hospital care: findings from household surveys in Chhattisgarh(BMC: Journal of Public Health, 2020 Jun 16;20(1):949, 2020) Samir Garg; Kirtti Kumar Bebarta; Narayan TripathiEnrollment under PMJAY or other PFHI schemes did not increase the utilization of hospital-care in Chhattisgarh. Out of Pocket Expenditure (OOPE) and incidence of Catastrophic Health Expenditure did not decrease with enrollment under PMJAY or other PFHI schemes.Item Role of Mitanin community health workers in improving complementary feeding practices under scaled-up home-based care of young children in a rural region of India(BMC pediatrics, 2023) Samir Garg; Mukesh Dewangan; Kavita Patel; C Krishnendhu; Prabodh NandaThe current study was aimed at assessing the coverage of home-based care of young children (HBYC) in Chhattisgarh state where it has been implemented through 67,000 rural Community Health Workers (CHWs) known as Mitanins.