Health technology assessment implementation in WHO South-East Asia Region: a realist review protocol.

Background: A robust Health Technology Assessment (HTA) framework is crucial to address the rising burden of healthcare costs and to inform decision-making to promote high-quality health systems. This research aims to describe the HTA methods and mechanisms for the successful implementation of HTA in the WHO South-East Asia region, and contextualize the synthesized evidence relevant to Indian settings.

Methods: Realist review involves developing a program theory by conducting a systematic search strategy, screening, study selection, data extraction, and data synthesis.

Decoding the black box of health policy implementation: A case of regulating private healthcare establishments in southern India.

Background: . Implementation of healthcare regulatory policies, especially in low- and middle-income countries where the private health sector is predominant, is challenging. Karnataka, a southern state in India, enacted the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments Act (KPMEA) with an aim to ensure quality of care in the private healthcare establishments.

Conflicts of interest in tobacco control in India: an exploratory study.

Introduction: The government of India introduced a tobacco control legislation in 2003 and is a party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. However, anecdotal evidence points to the government's conflicting interests in tobacco control and trade. This research seeks to scope instances of conflicts of interests within the government and analyse how they operate in the Indian context.

Adult circadian behavior in Drosophila requires developmental expression of cycle, but not period.

Circadian clocks have evolved as internal time keeping mechanisms that allow anticipation of daily environmental changes and organization of a daily program of physiological and behavioral rhythms. To better examine the mechanisms underlying circadian clocks in animals and to ask whether clock gene expression and function during development affected subsequent daily time keeping in the adult, we used the genetic tools available in Drosophila to conditionally manipulate the function of the CYCLE component of the positive regulator CLOCK/CYCLE (CLK/CYC) or its negative feedback inhibitor PERIOD (PER). Differential manipulation of clock function during development and in adulthood indicated that there is no developmental requirement for either a running clock mechanism or expression of per.