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Universalising Healthcare in India: From Care to Coverage
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ISBN-13: | 9789811658747 |
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Publisher: | Springer Nature Singapore |
Publication date: | 10/20/2021 |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2021 |
Pages: | 401 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
K B Saxena is a Distinguished Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India. He was a teacher of Political Science in the University of Delhi before he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1964 and held important government positions such as Joint Secretary, Land Reforms; Additional, Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar; Secretary in the Ministries of Welfare, Rural Development and Health, Government of India. He was Principal Adviser to the Planning Commission as well. Prof. Saxena prepared the report on Atrocities against Scheduled Castes for the National Human Rights Commission and has contributed a number of articles and papers and edited several books.
P.M. Arathi, Assistant Professor, School of Indian Legal Thought, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Dr. Arathi holds a masters in law specializing in healthcare law. She has been an assistant professor in law (FIP Substitute) at Government Law College, Thrissur, Kerala, and a research assistant on a collaborative project of the London School of Economics and Jawaharlal Nehru University on spousal violence in India. She also worked as Assistant Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Idea of Universal Healthcare: Its Passage Through TimePart I
Ideas, Concepts, History and Practice of UHC in India
1. Universal Health Coverage: The Trojan Horse of Neoliberal Policies
Imrana Qadeer
2. Universal Healthcare and Health Assurance Through Healthcare Industry and Market Mechanisms: Evidence Versus Ideology
Indira Chakravarthi
3. National Health Policy 2015: Growth Fundamentalism Driving Universal Health Coverage Agenda?
Indranil Mukhopadhyay
4. Interrogating the Proposed Universal Healthcare in India Through a ‘Quality’ Lens
Prachinkumar Ghodajkar
5. Growth of Private Medical Colleges in Maharashtra and Its Implications for Universal Healthcare
Archana Diwate
Part II
Evidences and Experiences of Public Private Partnerships and Health Insurance Schemes
6. A Critical Look at Public Private Partnership for Health Services in Karnataka
Sylvia Karpagam, Akhila Vasan, Elangovan Gajraj, Bijoya Roy and Imrana Qadeer
7. Role of Public Private Partnerships in Ensuring Universal Healthcare for India
Bijoya Roy
8. Unaccountable Deaths and Damages: An Analysis of Socio-Legal Implications of Sterilisation Camp Deaths in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
P.M. Arathi
9. Universal Healthcare and Universalising Health Insurance: Examining the Binary Through the RSBY/MSBY in Chhattisgarh
Rajib Dasgupta, Sulakshana Nandi, Kanica Kanungo, Madhurima Nundy, Ganapathy Murugan, Samir Garg, Dipa Sinha, Sangeeta Sahu and Reeti Mahobe
10. Aarogyasri Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, India: Some Critical Reflections
Sunita Reddy and Immaculate Mary
Part III
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals: Critique of Policies and Practices
11. Developments in India’s Domestic Pharmaceutical Sector and Implications for Universal Healthcare in India
Biswajit Dhar and Reji K. Joseph
12. Vaccine Policy of the Government of India: Driven and Controlled by Vested Interests?
Jacob Puliyel
13. Availability and Access to Medicines: Some Issues in Pricing
S. Srinivasan and Malini Aisola
14. Vaccines and Vaccine Policy for Universal Healthcare
Y. Madhavi
15. Drugs and Vaccines in Healthcare: Problems and Possibilities
Pushpa M. Bhargava
Part IV
Missing Links in the Debate
16. The Elusive Development: Poverty, Inequality and
Vulnerability
K.B. Saxena
17. Water Governance and Supply in Urban Areas
Dunu Roy, Vasudha Akshintala and Ruchika Sharma
18. Challenges of Reclaiming the Public Health System: Experiences of Community-Based Monitoring and Planning in Maharashtra
Abhay Shukla and P.M. Arathi
19. Constrained by Purchasing Power: The Story of Calorie Intake in India Post-Liberalisation
Sourindra Mohan Ghosh