Full Description
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of India's healthcare challenges and the pathways to achieving universal health coverage. It critically examines the current healthcare landscape, highlighting persistent issues such as under-nutrition, demographic transitions, and pandemic vulnerabilities.
The book emphasizes the importance of strengthening public healthcare systems, investing in human resources, and adopting a community-centred approach to health policy. It discusses the need for decentralized community action, substantial public investment in healthcare infrastructure, addressing urban health challenges, and developing a more inclusive and accessible healthcare model. Drawing on microstudies from across different states, the volume offers evidence-based recommendations for policymakers to transform India's healthcare ecosystem and make quality healthcare a reality for all. Its multidisciplinary approach—spanning healthcare policy, economics, and social development—ensures relevance across diverse professional domains while maintaining a clear focus on healthcare improvement in India. This broad yet focused perspective makes it a valuable resource for both specialists in the field and those seeking to understand the complexities of India's healthcare challenges and solutions.
Part of the Innovations, Practice and the Future of Public Policy in India series, this open access volume will interest policy professionals, administrators, academics, and researchers in public health, healthcare economics, and development studies.
This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
1. Making Healthcare for All a Reality - Addressing Key Challenges 2. Envisioning Healthy India: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future 3. Key Gaps in Healthcare for All - Why Public Systems Matter 4. Global Insights on Comprehensive Primary Healthcare 5. Turning the Politics of Knowledge Upside Down: Community-Centred Public Policy for Sustainable Universal Healthcare System 6. Towards Realising the Goal of Universal Health Coverage 7. Building Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres - Early Lessons with Community Primary Health Centre in Tamil Nadu - 2015-2022 8. Learning from the Past: Kerala's Preparedness for Future Pandemics 9. Bringing "the Public into Public Health": Learnings from India's Community Action for Health Programme, National Health Mission 10. Making Government-Funded Health Insurance an Effective Strategy for Universal Health Coverage 11. Improving Health and Well-Being of Migrants in India 12. Reflections from Two Decades of ASHA Programme Implementation 13. Building Capacity in Public Health Systems - Experience of the National Health System Resource Centre and the Mitanin Programme 14. Strengthening Health Workforce in India: Challenges and Priorities for Achieving Universal Healthcare 15. Healthcare for All - Challenges in Urban Areas 16. Addressing Commercial Determinants of Health to Promote Health for All 17. Evolving Landscape of India's Pharmaceutical sector 18. Moving Beyond Corporatisation - Advancing Publicness in Healthcare Systems in India 19. Air Pollution: Public Health Impacts and Policy Measures 20. The Future of Mental Healthcare in India: Policy Innovations with a Community Focus
