IIT Madras – Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Humanities & Social Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

|    Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters (1987-2022)

  • Muraleedharan VR, “Rural health care in Madras Presidency: 1919-39”, Indian Economic Social History Review. 1987; 24: 323-334.
  • Muraleedharan VR, “Professionalising Medical Practice in Colonial South India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 27 (4) 1992.
  • Muraleedharan VR, Veeraraghavan D. “Anti-malarial policy in the Madras Presidency: an overview of the early decades of the twentieth century” Medical History 1992;36 (3):290-305.
  • Muraleedharan VR “When is access to health care equal?” Economic and Political weekly, Vol 28 (Jan 1993).
  • Muraleedharan VR, “Diet, Disease and Death in Colonial South India”, Economic and Political Weekly Vol 29 (1) 1994.
  • V Sudhir, VR Muraleedharan and G Srinivasan “Integrated Solid Waste Management in Urban India: a critical operational framework” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Vol 30 (3) 1996.
  • V Sudhir, VR Muraleedharan and G Srinivasan Planning for sustainable solid waste management in urban India, Systems Dynamic Review, Vol 13(3) 1998.
  • Muraleedharan V R “Technology and Costs of Medical Care: some emerging issues in India” in Barbra Harriss-White and S Subramanian (eds.) Ill-fare in India: essays on social sector in honor of S.Guhan (Sage University, New Delhi, 1999).
  • Muraleedharan V R and Sara Bennett, “New Public Management and health care in the third world”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 35 no.1&2, Jan 8-14, 2000.
  • Muraleedharan V R “Quinine and the incurable malaria: India in 1930s” Parassitologia, 42 (1-2) June 2000).
  • Muraleedharan, VR “Cinchona Policy in British India: the critical early years”, in Amiya K Bagchi and Krishna Soman (eds) Maladies, Preventives and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India (Tulika Books, 2005).
  • Muraleedharan, V R, Stephen Jan and Ram Prasad “The human organ trade in Tamil Nadu: a case of regulatory failure” Health Economics, Policy and Law Vol 1 No 1 (2006).
  • Grace. A Chitra, V.R. Muraleedharan,. Swaminathan & D. Veeraraghavan. “Use of pesticides & its impact on human health: a case of farmers in South India” 2006. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, April 2006.
  • Umakant Dash, SD Vaishanvi, VR Muraleedharan and Debashsis Acharya, “Benchmarking the performance of public hospitals in Tamil Nadu: an application of data envelopment analysis”, Jl of Health Management, 9 (1) 2007.
  • Nalin Kumar C and Muraleedharan VR “Sanitary and Phytosanitary Regulations and Competitiveness: an analysis of Indian spice exports” South Asia Economic Journal Vol 8 (2) 2007.
  • Nalin Kumar and VR Muraleedharan, “International market access and Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) regulations: an analysis of trade and competitiveness effects”, International Jl of Applied Business and Economics Research, 5(1) 2007.
  • Umakant Dash, VR Muraleedharan and SD Vaishnavi, “Technical efficiency in the use of health care resources: a case study of Tamil Nadu” Indian Economic Review, vol 43 (1) 2008.
  • Muraleedharan VR, Sonia Andrews, Bhuvaneswari R and Stephan Jan, “Private Public Participation in the Control of Tuberculosis in Tamil Nadu and Kerala”, in KV Ramani, Dileep Mavalankar and Dipti Govil (eds). Strategic Issues and Challenges in Health Management, (Sage Publications, and IIM A, New Delhi, 2008).
  • David H Peters and VR Muraleedharan, “Regulating India’s Health Services: To what end? and To what future” Social Science and Medicine (Special Issue on Future of Health Services), March/April 2008.
  • Umakant Dash, SD Vaishnavi and VR Muraleedharan “Technical Efficiency and Scale Efficiency of District Hospitals: A Case Study”, Journal of Health Management, 12, 3 (2010): 231-248.
  • John P, VR Muraleedharan, T J Kamalanabhan and RD Thulsiraj, “Measuring determinants of employee satisfaction in an Eye Hospital: a study in India”, International Journal of Enterprise Network Management 4(3), 2011.
  • K. Ganesh, S. Ganesh, T.T. Narendran, V.R. Muraleedharan “Drug inventory management at public healthcare institutions – a case study” Int. J. of Logistics Economics and Globalisation, 3 (2/3) 2011.
  • Muraleedharan VR, Umakant Dash and Lucy Gilson, “The Success Story of Tamil Nadu: 1970s-2005”, in Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee and Anne Mills (2011), Good Health at Low Cost, 25 Years On: What makes a successful health system? (London, 2011).
  • S Rajasulochana, Umakant Dash and VR Muraleedharan, “Technical Efficiency and Scale Efficiency of Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and New Born Care Centres in Tamil Nadu”, Artha Vijnana, LIII (4) Dec.2011.
  • Balabanova, Dina et al (co-authored by Muraleedharan), “Good health at low cost 25 years on: lessons for the future of health systems strengthening”, The Lancet (April 8, 2013).
  • Monica Das Gupta and V R Muraleedharan, “Universal Health Coverage: Reform of the Government System Better than Quality Insurance”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIX, No.35 (August 30, 2014). [Invited Commentary]
  • Sundararaman T et al (co-authored by Muraleedharan), “Measuring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage: an approach in the Indian context”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIX, No.47 (Nov.22, 2014) (Classified as Special Article).
  • Sundararaman T and V R Muraleedharan., “Falling Sick, Paying the Price: NSS 71st Round on Morbidity and Cost of Healthcare”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. L (No.33), August 15, 2015
  • Sundararaman T, V R Muraleedharan, and Indranil Mukhopadhyay, “NSSO 71st Round on Data on Health and Beyond: Questioning Frameworks of Analysis”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LI (No.3)., January 2016.
  • Sundararaman T., Indranil Mukhopadhyay, V R Muraleedharan, “No Respite for Public Health”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.LI (16), April 2016.
  • Rajasulochana, S., Eric Nyarko, Umakant Dash, and V R Muraleedharan., “Expectant Mother’s Preferences for Services in Public Hospitals of Tamil Nadu, India”., Jl of Health Management, vol. 18 (2), June 2016.
  • Muraleedharan VR, and Umakant Dash, Chapter 5 on “Health”, in Tamil Nadu Human Development Report (published by the Planning Commission of TN, 2017, Sage Pub.)
  • Gaitonde, R., Miguel S Sebastian., V R Muraleedharan, and Anna-Karin Hurtig., “Community action for health in India national rural health mission: One policy, many paths”, Social Science and Medicine, 188 (2017)
  • T.N Srinivasan, V R Muraleedharan and Bhanu Pratap, “Morbidity in India since 1944”, Indian Economic Review, October 2017.
  • Rakhal Gaitonde, V. R. Muraleedharan, Miguel San Sebastian and Anna-Karin Hurtig, “Accountability in the health system of Tamil Nadu, India: exploring its multiple meanings”, Health Research Policy and Systems, 17:44 (2019)
  • Mohan VN, et al (co-authored by Muraleedharan). Economic and Societal Impact of a Systems-of-Care Approach for STEMI Management in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Insights from the TN STEMI Program. Annals of Global Health. 2019; 85(1): 122, 1–5.
  • Mary E,  Muraleedharan  VR,  Jayapal  SK,  Dash U, Rajesh M. “Job Intentions of Nurses Trained in Public and Private Institutions in Tamil Nadu, India: A Cross-Sectional Study”, Indian Journal of Nursing Sciences 2019;4(3):66-7
  • Prinja S, Chauhan AS, Bahuguna P, Selvaraj S, Muraleedharan VR, Sundararaman T. Cost of Delivering Secondary Healthcare Through the Public Sector in India. Pharmacoeconomics (Open) 2019 (Aug 29).
  • Prinja S, Muraleedharan VR, Sundararaman T. Cost Effectiveness Threshold and Health Opportunity Cost: Building an Investment Case for Universal Health Coverage in India. Economic and Political Weekly. January 11, 2020. LV; 2: 19-23.
  • Alok Ranjan and V R Muraleedharan, “Higher Disease Burden in India’s Elderly”, Economic and Political Weekly, 29 August 2020.
  • V R Muraleedharan, Sundararaman T, Girija Vaidyanathan et al., (2020), “How prudent is it to invest further in public healthcare facilities? What do evidence from 2014 survey (NSSO 71st Round), and 2017-18 survey (NSSO 75th Round) suggest?”, Economic and Political Weekly, 12 September 2020, vol 55 (37); pp53-60
  • Alok Ranjan and V R Muraleedharan (2020), “Equity and Elderly Health in India: Reflections from the 75th Round National Sample Survey 2017-18, amidst Covid-19 Pandemic”, Globalisation and Health (BMC series), 2020, 16(1).
  • Sundararaman T, V R Muraleedharan and Alok Ranjan  (December 2020)“Pandemic resilience and health systems preparedness: lessons from COVID-19 for the twenty-first century”, “Jl of Social and Economic Development”.
  • Prinja S, Yashika Chugh, Kavitha Rajasekar and V.R.Muraleedharan (2021), “National Methodological Guidelines to Conduct Budget Impact Analysis for Health Technology Assessment in India”, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (Online June 29, 2021).
  • (Co-authored), “Rising catastrophic expenditure on Households Due to Tuberculosis: Is India Moving Away from the End-TB Goal?”, Frontiers in Public Health, vol 9 (Feb 2021).
  • CV Irshad, Dash U and VR Muraleedharan (July 2021), “Healthy Ageing in India; A Quantile Regression Approach”, Journal of Population Ageing.
  • Shirisha, P., Muraleedharan, V.R., Vaidyanathan, G. Wealth related inequality in women and children malnutrition in the state of Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu (2022) BMC Nutrition, 8 (1), art. no. 86
  • Muraleedharan, V.R., Vaidyanathan, G., Thiagarajan, S., Dash, U., Rajesh, M., Ranjan, A. Better to Reflect Than Shoot the Messenger Learnings from NSS, 2017-18 (2022) Economic and Political Weekly, 57 (30), pp. 68-71.
  • Mokashi, T., Panigrahi, S., Raman, A.V., Muraleedharan, V.R., Chokshi, M. Priority Setting for Collaborative Health Systems Research in India: A Method and the Way Forward (2022) Journal of Health Management, 24 (1), pp. 14-21.
  • Shirisha, P., Vaidyanathan, G., Muraleedharan, V.R. Are the Poor Catching Up with the Rich in Utilising Reproductive, Maternal, New Born and Child Health Services: An Application of Delivery Channels Framework in Indian Context (2022) Journal of Health Management, 24 (1), pp. 87-104.
  • Irshad, C.V., Muraleedharan, V.R., Dash, U. Stakeholders’ Perspective on Working Towards a Healthy Ageing Society: Evidence from a Rapidly Ageing Context (2022) Journal of Population Ageing, .
  • Irshad, C.V., Dash, U., Muraleedharan, V.R. Healthy Ageing in Low and Middle-Income Countries; A Systematic Scoping Review (2022) Journal of Health Management, .
  • Chugh, Y., Bahuguna, P., Sohail, A., Rajsekar, K., Muraleedharan, V.R., Prinja, S. Development of a Health Technology Assessment Quality Appraisal Checklist (HTA-QAC) for India (2022) Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, .
  • Muthu Singaram, Muraleedhran VR& Sivaprakasam, M. (2022). Cross fertilisation of Public Health and Translational Research. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science
  • Muthu Singaram, Muraleedhran VR & Sivaprakasam, M. (2023).Translational research in health care: A qualitative analysis of 24 case studies in India. Journal of Health Management (accepted for publication)
  • Akashdeep Singh Chauhan, Shankar Prinja, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Aditi Gupta, V.R.Muraleedharan and Thiagarajan Sundararaman, “Cost of delivering Primary Health Care Services through Public Sector in India” Indian Journal of Medical Research (accepted for publication).

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