Download or read book Universalising Healthcare in India written by Imrana Qadeer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of universal health coverage in India. It starts by setting the historical context and politics of the debates around universal health coverage (UHC) in India and proceeds to analyze the present crisis of public health in the country. The book examines the present policies on the pharmaceutical industry, missing links in universalizing health, and the importance of social determinants of health. It is divided into five sections, and some of the topics covered include the difference between comprehensive primary health care and universal health care, public health and medical care, health service, and health system. The chapters are contributed by scholars and practitioners based on historical, interdisciplinary, empirical, and policy research. The book is insightful to academics, public health administrators, policymakers, practitioners, and students interested in health care and organization, looking to transform theory into policy and practice.
Download or read book Universalising Healthcare in India written by Imrana Qadeer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of universal health coverage in India. It starts by setting the historical context and politics of the debates around universal health coverage (UHC) in India and proceeds to analyze the present crisis of public health in the country. The book examines the present policies on the pharmaceutical industry, missing links in universalizing health, and the importance of social determinants of health. It is divided into five sections, and some of the topics covered include the difference between comprehensive primary health care and universal health care, public health and medical care, health service, and health system. The chapters are contributed by scholars and practitioners based on historical, interdisciplinary, empirical, and policy research. The book is insightful to academics, public health administrators, policymakers, practitioners, and students interested in health care and organization, looking to transform theory into policy and practice.
Download or read book India s Public Health Care Delivery written by Sanjeev Kelkar and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the present awful state of India's Public Health Care Delivery, its dismal planning and implementation. It argues that it can be remedied comprehensively and effectively, using its 'own already present' resources. A radical re-evaluation of some sacrosanct ideas and discarding many of these, especially in Primary Care and its structure is required. It can be done without disadvantage to the last man served. This book starts with the sea change India has undergone and emphasizes new ways of managing health. High quality work force creation and its deployment, an unsolved problem is effectively given a solution. The bulk of the book discusses the entire public health care structure and function and how it can be newly laid out with proper work force allocation, hitherto grossly inadequate, including professionals from other training backgrounds. It is total solution that will help India to achieve the goal of Universal Health Care.
Download or read book Globalisation of Indian Healthcare Services written by Dr. M. Kishore Babu and published by Vandana Publications. This book was released on with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has a comprehensive Healthcare system comprising government and private service providers. Indian healthcare sector comprise of both allopathy & Alternative systems of medicine i.e. AYUSH. Indian Healthcare industry is worth Rs. 730 billion, and occupies 4 per cent of country’s GDP. In India, the Healthcare system is organised into primary, secondary and tertiary levels of delivery system. Healthcare ServicesDuring 2010-11, sales of the industry had grown by 25.4 per cent. During 2011-12 and 2012-13, transactions are expected to grow by a healthy 18.6 per cent and 20.5 per cent respectively. The National Health Policy (NHP)in light of the Directive Principles of the constitution of India recommends "universal, comprehensive primary health care services which are relevant to the actual needs and priorities of the community at a cost which people can afford". Globally, health expenditure as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ballooned in the second half of the 20th century, experiencing an almost threefold increase from 3 per cent in the 1950s to 8.5 per cent by 2014. According to the OECD, key drivers of greater health spending include: Rising incomes; Demographic trends; Ageing Population; Epidemiological trends; and Development and diffusion of new technologies and drugs. The four modes of cross-border delivery of services under GATS can be summarized as follows: Services supplied from one country to another; Consumers or firms making use of a service in another country; A foreign company setting up subsidiaries or branches to provide services in another country; and Individuals travelling from their own country to supply services in another country. Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in the hospitals and diagnostic center segment has reached a new high in India. India is already charged in this route as evident from the 100% allowance of FDI in the hospital segment under automatic route, since January 2000. There is also an increasing interest among private equity funds, domestic and international financial institutions, venture capitalists, and banks to examine investment opportunities across an extensive range of segments. A developing country like India can adopt a mechanism for healthcare delivery for medical tourists to strengthen its economy by Creating an efficient and economic human resource pool (skilled medical and paramedical professionals), offer competitive costs and high quality of care to medical tourists.
Download or read book Health Care Reforms in India E Book written by Rajendra Pratap Gupta and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, provocative, lively, well-written text, which is must read for people who are passionate to drive change in health care. • Well- researched book on health care reforms that captures wealth of insights, serving as comprehensive source of up-to-date information and facts • Offers interesting insights into the health of India’'s population and makes a passionate appeal for political priority to be given to universal health coverage and for an upstream pre-emptive approach to health • Contains thought provoking ideas and reform proposals, which are of global relevance • Must read for everyone interested in the Health Care System of India
Download or read book Equity and Access written by Purendra Prasad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equity and Access attempts to unravel the complex narrative of why inequities in the health sector are growing and access to basic health care is worsening, and the underlying forces that contribute to this situation. It draws attention to the way globalization has influenced India’s development trajectory as healthcare issues have assumed significant socio-economic and political significance in contemporary India. The volume explains how state and market forces have progressively heightened the iniquitous health care system and the process through which substantial burden of meeting health care needs has fallen on the individual households. Twenty-eight scholars comprising social scientists, medical experts, public health experts, policy makers, health activists, legal experts, and gender specialists have delved into the politics of access for different classes, castes, gender, and other categories to contribute to a new field ‘health care studies’ in this volume. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach within a broader political-economy framework, the volume is useful for understanding power relations within social groups and complex organizational systems.
Download or read book Achieving Healthcare for All in India written by Lucy Dubochet and published by Oxfam. This book was released on with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards Universal Health Coverage in India written by U. H. C. Team IPH Bangalore and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much talk about Universal Health Coverage (UHC), both internationally as well as in India. Presently, there is a major emphasis on moving towards universal coverage, a goal that is laudable and must be encouraged at all cost. So it is heartening that the Planning Commission has taken the lead in commissioning a high level expert group (HLEG) to initiate the debate and discussions on UHC in India. In this context some of us felt the need to go beyond broad policy recommendations and come up with steps to operationalise UHC. The Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru undertook this task. The key guiding principles in preparation of the document were that: - Health care services should be accessible and affordable to all sections of Indian society, especially the vulnerable section of the population.- Health care services should be equitably distributed between urban and rural India, between men and women, between rich and poor, between the castes and among the States.- Health care services should be aimed at maximizing health gain.This document attempts to provide an understanding of the concept of UHC, explain in detail the critical aspects with reference to population and services to be covered, financing and the method of delivery. It is specifically targeted for the State level policy makers and implementers, so that they are able to diagnose where their state is vis-a-vis UHC, identify the necessary steps they need to take to prepare a roadmap towards achieving UHC. This document is not a blueprint, but provides some options for policy makers and those in the decision making process to consider. The document draws from the various discussions held by various stakeholders in the past and several documents and experiences of several countries in achieving UHC. The document brings together a few practical tools (including an excel sheet) necessary to understand how UHC may be planned at the state level.
Download or read book The road to universal health coverage written by Samir Saran and published by Observer Research Foundation. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Healthcare for All in India written by Kurian, Oommen, C and published by Oxfam India. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 40 pages AuthorsKurian, Oommen C.Publication date29 May 2015PublisherOxfam IndiaSeriesOxfam Working PapersTypeWorking paper This paper explores available evidence, contextualises and maps the debate in India around financing healthcare for all. While the focus is on healthcare in response to current policy debates, Oxfam India recognises the crucial importance of adopting a holistic approach to health, addressing factors such as nutrition and sanitation, and broader social determinants of health.
Download or read book Healthcare in India written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Health in India written by and published by Sage. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Health in India: Policy Shifts and Trends captures transitions in the public health debates in India from different vantage points. It marks the erosions, reflected mainly in policy changes, that have taken place at the national level in the area of public health. The analysis of selected articles attempts to understand the amnesia about the health of people that has pervaded not only the professional and the political class but also those who believe in an elitist, bio-medical perspective, limited to hi-tech interventions at the cost of a balanced view on healthcare. This volume traces the history of public health debates in India over five decades and identifies the paradigm shifts in post-Independent India through contradictory approaches by state strategies and interventions. The transition of health policies and shifts in the state's commitment towards 'Health for All' form part of these debates. The series 'Social Change in Contemporary India' brings together key texts published in the prestigious journal Social Change, from 1971 till present times. These writings, most of which are considered canonical, address important issues in health, education, poverty and agriculture with special focus on disadvantaged groups. These writings will help readers identify key points in the history of policymaking in India and major discourses and debates and their impact.
Download or read book Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies written by Ilcheong Yi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an integral system in its own right. The following two parts go on to discuss the opportunities and challenges of achieving universal health care in Thailand, Brazil and China, and survey the obstacles facing India, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa and Venezuela in the reform of their health care systems. The evolution of social policy systems and the cases in this volume together demonstrate that universalism in health care is continuously redefined by the interactions between diverse political forces and through specific policy processes. At a time when international and national-level discourse around health systems has once again brought universalism to the fore, this edited collection offers a timely contribution to the field in its thorough analysis of health care reform in emerging economies.
Download or read book World Healthcare Cooperatives written by K.K. Tripathy and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering more than 100 million households worldwide that have benefitted from healthcare cooperatives, this pioneering collection highlights both the challenges a successful healthcare cooperative may face, as well as its proven effectiveness in making a difference.
Download or read book Health Care Reforms in India written by Rajendra Pratap Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, provocative, lively, well-written text, which is must read for people who are passionate to drive change in health care. . Well- researched book on health care reforms that captures wealth of insights, serving as comprehensive source of up-to-date information and facts . Offers interesting insights into the health of India''s population and makes a passionate appeal for political priority to be given to universal health coverage and for an upstream pre-emptive approach to health . Contains thought provoking ideas and reform proposals, which are of global relevance . Must read for everyone interested in the Health Care System of India
Download or read book Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana RSBY for Universal Health Coverage written by Pawan Kumar Taneja and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 June 2012, Anil Swarup, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India (GOI), reviewed the report submitted to the Planning Commission of India by High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on universal health coverage (UHC) for India;1 he had mixed feelings about this report. It (HLEG) reported that the main impeding factor to UHC in India is the heavy out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure on health, that is, 61.7 per cent of the total health expenditure by Indians as compared to the global average of 20.5 per cent. Looking for a solution for this problem, the report appreciated his brainchild, the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a social health insurance scheme rolled out in 2008 to reduce OOP expenditures for healthcare. The scheme also aimed to cut down a substantial financial burden on the poor by the GOI. The RSBY scheme was lauded for its innovative approach in financing mechanism,2 public private partnership (PPP) model for enrolment process, use of information and communication technology for delivery of healthcare services. However, the report questioned the potential of RSBY to achieve UHC due to issues in its sustainability. The scheme faced challenges of low coverage ratio, unfair practices in enrolment and hospitalization processes in many parts of the country, inconsistent usage patterns of services, and backing out by insurance companies as result of high claims ratio.3 Swarup was in a dilemma of how to address these issues and make RSBY a platform to implement universal health coverage (prime area of concern for GOI) in India.
Download or read book Economics of Public and Private Healthcare and Health Insurance in India written by Brijesh C. Purohit and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the public and private healthcare systems in India. Analysing the current scenario of health insurance in India, it studies the inadequacy of public healthcare services and unaffordability of private health care facilities. The volume investigates government sponsored health insurance schemes and advocates for the need of universal health insurance coverage. It details India’s per capita health expenditure and provides policy inputs on how healthcare systems and insurance coverage can be improved in the country. Further, it explores the financial parameters of health insurers and standalone private health insurance companies, and also discusses the adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Indian healthcare. An insightful read on the state of healthcare in India, this book will be of interest to researchers and academics working in the fields of insurance, healthcare administration and management, public health policy and practice, health and social care, medical sociology, and sociology & social policy. It will also be useful for think tanks and policy makers.
