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Community monitoring of rural health services in Maharashtra [1]

What happens when villagers are allowed to monitor their local public health facilities? India’s National Rural Health Mission is making such accountability a reality through its community-based monitoring initiative. This article presents the first three rounds of data collected by village health committee members in Maharashtra’s 225 pilot villages. The obstacles encountered by the process and its strengths and limitations are also discussed.

Publication Date: 
22/07/2011
Abhay Shukla [2], Kerry Scott [3], Dhananjay Kakde [4]
Economic and Political Weekly [5]
46
30
Tags:
Maharashtra [6], Rural Health [7], National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) [8], Public Participation [9], Health Care [10]
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-participation
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