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ReviewJournal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine

'Population self-reliance in health' and COVID-19: The need for a 4th tier in the health system.

Mahesh Madhav Mathpati, Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, Darshan Shankar, John Dh Porter

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Review in Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mahesh Madhav MathpatiLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom; The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), 74/2, Jarakabande Kaval, Post Attur via Yelahanka, Bengaluru, 560064, India. Electronic address: dr.mathpati@gmail.com.
Unnikrishnan PayyappallimanaThe University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), 74/2, Jarakabande Kaval, Post Attur via Yelahanka, Bengaluru, 560064, India.
Darshan ShankarThe University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), 74/2, Jarakabande Kaval, Post Attur via Yelahanka, Bengaluru, 560064, India.
John Dh PorterLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom; The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), 74/2, Jarakabande Kaval, Post Attur via Yelahanka, Bengaluru, 560064, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is straining health systems globally. The current international biomedical focus for disease control and policies fails to include the resource of a population's capacity to be self-reliant in its health care practices. The ancient wisdom of Ayurveda ('the knowledge of life') and Local Health Traditions (LHTs) in India understand that health is about

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