Health of the Nation

Description

This volume brings together world's leading experts to analyse the challenges facing survival and health in India and what it would take to address them. It aims to enhance the significance of health in the context of India's public policy, with discussions on demographic, economic, moral and legal arguments for prioritization of health in India. It also talks about the burden of disease and disability, factors responsible for the current status of health-ranging from the economic, social, spatial and the environmental to the more immediate health sector determinants and resources-and the state of health sector regulation in the country. This is the first comprehensive analytical reference on India's health sector. The policymakers and other stakeholders in India's health sector, scholars, students, media, as well as lay readers would find it very useful.

About the Author

Ali Mehdi is Senior Fellow and Project Leader, Health Policy Initiative, ICRIER, New Delhi S Irudaya Rajan is Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala. 

Contributors 

Abhijit Das
Aditi Iyer 
Ali Mehdi
Amir Ullah Khan 
Basant K Panda
D Prabhakaran
Gita Sen
Kenneth Thorpe
KM Venkat Narayan
Leela Visaria
Mohammed K. Ali
N R Madhava Menon
Nikhil Tandon
Sanjay Kumar Mohanty 
Shivani A. Patel
Smita Srinivas 
Venkatanarayana Motkuri
Rama Baru
V S Saravanan 
Kalpana Balakrishnan
Mr Anoop Jain, 
Kirk R. Smith
K Sujatha Rao

Table of contents

Contents

Foreword
Dedication
Preface
About the contributors

1. Introduction
ALI MEHDI

PART I: PRIORITIZING HEALTH

2. Right to health: Legal and constitutional perspectives
N.R. MADHAVA MENON

3. Towards health equity: Operationalising a human rights based approach
ABHIJIT DAS

4. Responsibility for health
ALI MEHDI

PART II: BURDEN OF DISEASE AND DISABILITY

5. Health transition in India: The demographic argument
LEELA VISARIA

6. Burden of disease: Traditional areas of concern
SANJAY KUMAR MOHANTY AND BASANT K PANDA

7. Burden of disease and disability: Emerging areas of concern
SHIVANI PATEL, K M VENKAT NARAYAN, D PRABHAKARAN, NIKHIL TANDON, KENNETH THORPE AND MOHAMMED K ALI

8. Health inequalities in India
ADITI IYER AND GITA SEN
PART III: STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

9. A new economics for health
SMITA SRINIVAS

10. Health and economy linkage: Systems and conditions in the Indian context
VENKATANARAYANA MOTKURI AND AMIR ULLAH KHAN 

11. Unraveling the 'social' in social determinants and health
RAMA V BARU

12. Spatial determinants of urban health 
V S SARAVANAN

13. Environmental health risks in India
KALPANA BALAKRISHNAN, ANOOP JAIN AND KIRK R SMITH

PART IV: HEALTH SECTOR DETERMINANTS AND RESOURCES

14. The policy framework: A critical assessment
K SUJATHA RAO

15. Major actors influencing health policy in India: A historical perspective
ROGER JEFFERY

16. Health care sector financing in India
ABUSALEH SHARIFF, GULREZ SHAH AZHAR AND AMIT SHARMA

17. Private sector in health
WILLIAM JOE, PALLAVI JOSHI AND SUNIL RAJPAL

18. Strategic analysis of India's private hospital sector
AKSHAT KUMAR, ROHIT GUPTA AND LAWTON R BURNS

19. The public health system in Uttar Pradesh: The systemic malaise, diagnostics and a set of prescriptions
SANTOSH MEHROTRA AND ANURAG PRIYADARSHI

PART V: HEALTH SECTOR REGULATION

20. Regulation of drug products in India: Lessons from the US and EU 
RICHARD KINGHAM AND VASUDHA WATTAL

21. Regulation of medicines: Promoting global supply chain security
SUSAN WINCKLER AND ALISSA McCAFFREY

22. Under trial: Clinical research regulations in India
RAHUL MONGIA

23. The case for health insurance regulation and its evolution in India
SOMIL NAGPAL

24. Medical ethics: The Indian context
SHAH ALAM KHAN AND NEHA FARUQUI

25. Corruption in Indian health care: Going beyond scandal
SAMIRAN NUNDY, SANJAY NAGRAL AND SUNIL PANDYA 

Index
About the Editors