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Planned work on "Gender Inequality in India"
I am planning to revise the "Gender Inequality in India" article in multiple areas. Within many of the existing sections, I plan to add additional information with more current statistical information as some of the data presented is a bit outdated. In addition, some sections themselves are quite brief and require expansion to function as a coherent section. And finally, one of my main areas of focus will be on the Political and Legal Reforms section as the current information in the section has the potential for much more supplementation and additional data. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions during this process of revision! Thank you!

Update: I have started the process of editing with a few initial edits to the article.

Here is an initial list of references that I plan to start with.

1) Pajankar, V. D., & Pajankar, P. (2011). Gender Disparity in the Population of India: A Statistical View. Studies of Tribes and Tribals, 9(1), 61-69.

2) Saha, B., & Bahal, R. (2015). Factors leading to success in diversified occupation: A Livelihood analysis in India. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 21(3), 249-266.

3) Sarikhani, N. (2013). The Study of Effects of Education on Women’s Occupation in India. International Journal of Educational Sciences, 5(2), 151-157.

4) Chudgar, A., & Sankar, V. (2008). The relationship between teacher gender and student achievement: Evidence from five Indian states. Compare, 38(5), 627-642.

5) Bajaj, M. (2011). Teaching to transform, transforming to teach: Exploring the role of teachers in human rights education in India. Educational Research, 53(2), 207-221.

6) Jain, M. (2018). A Vaccination for Education: Early Childhood Development Programme and the Education of Older Girls in Rural India. The Journal of Development Studies, 54(1), 153-173.

7) Srivastava, P. (2006). Private schooling and mental models about girls' schooling in India. Compare, 36(4), 497-514.

8) Kelly, O., & Bhabha, J. (2014). Beyond the education silo? Tackling adolescent secondary education in rural India. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35(5), 731-752.

9) Ray, A., Halder, S., & Goswami, N. (2012). Academic Career Development Stress and Mental Health of Higher Secondary Students-an Indian Perspective. International Journal of Educational Psychology, 1(3), 257-277.

10) Vijaya, K. (2014, January). Gender Mainstreaming and Human Resource Development. In Proceedings of the Indian History Congress (Vol. 75, pp. 1224-1231). Indian History Congress.

11) Arora, R. U. (2012). Gender inequality, economic development, and globalization: A state level analysis of India. The Journal of Developing Areas, 46(1), 147-164.

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Planned work on "Healthcare in India"
1. Health care system section In the existing article, most sub-sections fall under this main section. However, to create a more coherent structure, it would be beneficial for the other sub-sections (Rural Health and Urban Health) to be separate sections. In this way, the Health Care System section can provide more in-depth information about features of the health care system in India through Public Healthcare, Private Healthcare, and Insurance as sub-sections within this major section. The General Structure sub-section (1.1) will be directly placed as the first sub-section under the Health Care System section heading.

2. South India and North India Access to healthcare: This is another new sub-section that I plan to add under the category of Rural Health, my primary area of focus for the project. Within the information presented, I will be writing about the features of access in the context of a few South Indian and North Indian cities or regions. This will develop a more holistic presentation of the topic. I will include statistics that describe the current accessibility of healthcare in the Rural North and South. Then the discussion will transition into a detailed description of gaps or inequities that are faced in terms of healthcare access. I will also include some information about the societal and cultural impact due to gaps in access to healthcare, as well as statistics related to overall health outcomes as a result. Finally, I plan to include strategies or programs that have been developed or implemented in recent years to work towards reducing the gap in access to healthcare.

Quality of healthcare: This section will address some aspects regarding the quality of healthcare that are present in the existing article, but expand further on the basic information provided. In addition, I will include statistics regarding hospital facilities currently available including general information about providers and their services. I plan to touch on the quality of healthcare through the doctor-patient interaction in these areas as well. And finally, I will include some details about the societal impact of healthcare quality from the perspective of patients as gathered from research data. This sub-section will discuss these aspects from the context of various regions or states in South India.

Bibliography:

1) Balarajan, Y., Selvaraj, S., Subramanian, SV. (2011). Health care and equity in India. Lancet, 377(9764), 505-515.

-This source will used to present additional information in the current state of healthcare in India as a part of the introductory overview.

2) Basu S, Andrews J, Kishore S, Panjabi R, Stuckler D. (2012). Comparative Performance of Private and Public Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review. PLOS Medicine, 9(6), 1-14.

-This source presents a significant amount of data from different countries and I plan to incorporate these statistics measures in this article to updated some of the data in the current version of "Healthcare in India."

3) Gupta, M., Desikachari, B., Shukla, R., Somanathan, T., Padmanaban, P., & Datta, K. (2010). How Might India's Public Health Systems Be Strengthened? Lessons from Tamil Nadu. Economic and Political Weekly, 45(10), 46-60.

-This source will be used in the South India section for access to healthcare. I plan to incorporate this source in the state of healthcare access and quality and in the discussion of strategies implemented in Tamil Nadu and other neighboring regions.

4)Gautham, M., Shyamprasad, KM., Singh, R., Zachariah, A., Singh, R., Bloom, G. (2014). Informal rural healthcare providers in North and South India. Health Policy and Planning, 29(1), 20–29.

-This source compares particular areas of North and South India in terms of healthcare quality aspects. Thus, this source will be used both in the North India and South India sections as information about healthcare quality.

5) Raza, W., Van de Poel, E., Panda, P., Dror, D., Bedi, A. (2016). Healthcare seeking behavior among self-help group households in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. BMC Health Services Research, 16(1), 1-13.

-This source will be used as a means to describe access to healthcare in particular areas of Rural North India.

6)Kovai, V., Krishnaiah, S., Shamanna, B. R., Thomas, R., & Rao, G. N. (2007). Barriers to accessing eye care services among visually impaired populations in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 55(5), 365–371.

-This is another source that I plan to use in discussing access to healthcare. This article focuses specifically on Andhra Pradesh, a state in South India. Although it particularly focuses on eye care, I would like to use the general information as applied to access of healthcare in general.

7)Baidya, M., Gopichandran, V., Kosalram, K. (2014). Patient-physician trust among adults of rural Tamil Nadu: A community-based survey. J Postgrad Med, 60(1), 21-26.

-This source will be incorporated in the discussion of healthcare quality in South India, specifically Tamil Nadu. This article provides a basis for information on healthcare quality from the perspective of patients and physicians, another component I plan to address.

8)DeSouza, S., Rashmi, M. R., Vasanthi, A., Joseph, S., Rodrigues, R. (2014). Mobile Phones: The Next Step towards Healthcare Delivery in Rural India?. PLOS ONE 9(8), 1-8.

-This source discusses a potential idea of incorporating technology into healthcare delivery which is useful information for my discussion of current strategies available to increase access to healthcare.

9)Shukla, A., Scott, K., & Kakde, D. (2011). Community Monitoring of Rural Health Services in Maharashtra. Economic and Political Weekly, 46(30), 78-85.

- This source addresses the particular area of Maharashtra presenting a unique possibility for community based initiatives by local people to monitor the current status of health care facilities. I plan to use this article in the section about North India's healthcare quality (particularly Maharashtra) in terms of a potential strategy.

10)Bhate-Deosthali, P., Khatri, R., & Wagle, S. (2011). Poor standards of care in small, private hospitals in Maharashtra, India: Implications for public-private partnerships for maternity care. Reproductive Health Matters, 19(37), 32-41.

-This source presents another aspect of healthcare quality in North India, focusing on private healthcare facilities, which I plan to use to further broaden the discussion of healthcare quality.

Sravi12 (talk) 01:59, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

South India
In many rural communities throughout India, healthcare is provided by what is known as informal providers, who may or may not have proper medical accreditation to diagnose and treat patients, generally offering consults for common ailments. Specifically, in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, these informal healthcare providers generally practice in the form of services in the homes of patients and prescribing allopathic drugs. A 2014 study published in the journal Health Policy and Planning by the Oxford University Press found that in Guntur, about 71% of patients received injections from informal healthcare providers as a part of illness management strategies. The study also examined the educational background of the informal healthcare providers and found that of those surveyed, 43% had completed 11 or more years of schooling, while 10% had graduated from college.