Ajay S Mahal

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Quality of medical training and emigration of physicians from India
    Manas Kaushik
    Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    BMC Health Serv Res 8:279. 2008
  2. ncbi HIV/AIDS epidemic in India: an economic perspective
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Indian J Med Res 121:582-600. 2005
  3. ncbi Diffusion of medical technology: medical devices in India
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Expert Rev Med Devices 6:197-205. 2009
  4. ncbi Assessing the economic impact of HIV/AIDS on Nigerian households: a propensity score matching approach
    Ajay Mahal
    Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Population and International Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    AIDS 22:S95-101. 2008
  5. ncbi Adequacy of dietary intakes and poverty in India: trends in the 1990s
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 02115, USA
    Econ Hum Biol 6:57-74. 2008
  6. ncbi Health spending and poverty
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Lancet 368:1308-9. 2006
  7. ncbi Growth of private medical education in India
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Med Educ 40:1009-11. 2006
  8. ncbi Implications of the growth of dental education in India
    Ajay S Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Building No 1, 11 Floor, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Dent Educ 70:884-91. 2006
  9. ncbi Diffusion of diagnostic medical devices and policy implications for India
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Int J Technol Assess Health Care 22:184-90. 2006
  10. ncbi A risk-based method for modeling traffic fatalities
    Kavi Bhalla
    Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Risk Anal 27:125-36. 2007

Detail Information

Publications14

  1. ncbi Quality of medical training and emigration of physicians from India
    Manas Kaushik
    Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    BMC Health Serv Res 8:279. 2008
    ..We examined the relationship between the quality of medical training and rate of migration to the United States and the United Kingdom among Indian medical graduates (1955-2002)...
  2. ncbi HIV/AIDS epidemic in India: an economic perspective
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Indian J Med Res 121:582-600. 2005
    ..Paucity of economic research on HIV and AIDS relating to India is highlighted...
  3. ncbi Diffusion of medical technology: medical devices in India
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Expert Rev Med Devices 6:197-205. 2009
    ..We explore the implications of this process of diffusion for the efficacy, cost-effectiveness and equitable use of new medical devices in India, and review recent efforts to regulate the Indian medical device sector...
  4. ncbi Assessing the economic impact of HIV/AIDS on Nigerian households: a propensity score matching approach
    Ajay Mahal
    Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Population and International Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    AIDS 22:S95-101. 2008
    ..We used a novel approach to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals' healthcare utilization and spending in the Oyo and Plateau states of Nigeria and income foregone from work time lost...
  5. ncbi Adequacy of dietary intakes and poverty in India: trends in the 1990s
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 02115, USA
    Econ Hum Biol 6:57-74. 2008
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  6. ncbi Health spending and poverty
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Lancet 368:1308-9. 2006
  7. ncbi Growth of private medical education in India
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Med Educ 40:1009-11. 2006
    ..Medical education has grown in India in nearly 6 decades since independence, but no quantitative assessment of this growth exists...
  8. ncbi Implications of the growth of dental education in India
    Ajay S Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Building No 1, 11 Floor, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Dent Educ 70:884-91. 2006
    ..The growth in the dental education sector has translated into increased overall access, although accompanied by rising inequality in access and possibly lower quality of dental education...
  9. ncbi Diffusion of diagnostic medical devices and policy implications for India
    Ajay Mahal
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Int J Technol Assess Health Care 22:184-90. 2006
    ..This study describes the diffusion of advanced diagnostic devices in India and assess implications for efficiency in resource use and equity...
  10. ncbi A risk-based method for modeling traffic fatalities
    Kavi Bhalla
    Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Risk Anal 27:125-36. 2007
    ..Regional adaptations of the model validated with local data can be used to evaluate the impacts of transportation planning and safety interventions, such as helmets, seat belts, and enforcement of traffic laws, on traffic fatalities...
  11. ncbi High-end physician migration from India
    Manas Kaushik
    Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston 02115, MA, United States of America
    Bull World Health Organ 86:40-5. 2008
    ..To examine the relation between the quality of physicians and migration among alumni of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India over the period 1989-2000...
  12. ncbi Measuring the health of the Indian elderly: evidence from National Sample Survey data
    Bradley Chen
    Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
    Popul Health Metr 8:30. 2010
    ..However, the susceptibility of SRH to influence by individuals' expectations complicates its interpretation and undermines its usefulness...
  13. ncbi Economic perspectives on injecting drug use
    DAVID E BLOOM
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
    Adv Health Econ Health Serv Res 16:371-95. 2005
    ..This chapter also presents new results on the economic analysis of needle exchange programmes...
  14. ncbi The health care systems of China and India: performance and future challenges
    Winnie Yip
    Harvard School of Public Health in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 27:921-32. 2008
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