Gender, suicide, and the sociocultural context of deliberate self-harm in an urban general hospital in Mumbai, India (Publications)
Recognizing the complementary effects of social contexts and psychiatric disorders, this study clarifies the role of gender in suicidal behavior in urban Mumbai by considering psychiatric diagnoses an
Explaining suicide in an urban slum of Mumbai, India: a sociocultural autopsy (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health demographic mortality studies use verbal autopsies to identify suicide as a cause of death. Psychological autopsies focus almost exclusively on associated high-risk psychiatric diso
Governing decentralization in health care under tough budget constraint: what can we learn from the Italian experience? (Publications)
In many European countries, since the World War II, there has been a trend towards decentralization of health policy to lower levels of governments, while more recently there have been re-centralizati