Suchergebnisse

Fall of 2007 will remain etched in the memory of all my colleagues as
a period when each one of us, individually and collectively, turned
a new leaf in our lives. Over the past two weeks, the six of us
international fellows arrived separately in Washington, D.C., to
take part in the U.S. Congressional Fellowship program of the
American Political Science Association (APSA).

Urban health policy has remained a neglected area in India, and amongst the urban poor, the homeless remain the most deprived, neglected and stigmatized group. While they suffer from a large burden of disease, there are a variety of reasons that prevent them from accessing the available health care services – particularly in the public health sector. These barriers have been poorly understood and documented. This report, based upon a detailed study of homeless participants in New Delhi, India, seeks to highlight the systemic changes that would be required within public health systems to enable street dwellers to avail of their services and realise the conceptual ambit of ' health for all' in the context of homeless persons.

AbstractEquity in water supply is one of the major problems faced in intermittent water distribution systems. A new index 'uniformity coefficient' is introduced to measure the equity in distribution of water within the network, which may be useful for performance evaluation of water distribution networks (WDNs). An iterative head‐driven analysis technique is developed to compute the uniformity coefficient of a network. The effect of various design parameters of WDN on the uniform coefficient is studied. The results indicate that equity in water supply is significantly affected by the location of the tank and layout of the network. The equity in water supply can be improved in an existing network by staggered supply.