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Sreenidhi Sreekumar

Sreenidhi Sreekumar is a doctoral research fellow at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology in Kerala, India. His research focuses on primary healthcare and health equity, especially for marginalised social groups. He is an EV alumnus of the 2020 cohort.
 

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Primary Health Care in Kerala: a social determinants policy discourse sans the ‘social’

The concept of ‘social determinants’ of health is defined by the World Health Organisation as “The non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include ...

Systemic exclusion of Dalits within local governance: Between dream and reality of affirmative action policies for fair representation

Vimala (fictitious name) loved her role as a gram(a) sevika ( i.e. a woman employed to advise and assist villagers in matters of community welfare and development – in Kerala (local language) known as ‘grama sevika’).   Whenever she had the opportunity to help poor villagers collect their welfare pensions, she felt a deep sense of satisfact...