To grow, India must invest in public health
5 years, 1 month ago

To grow, India must invest in public health

Hindustan Times  

While there is much debate about the current state of India’s economy, it is pertinent to ask what factors might slow economic growth over the longer term. China consistently raised public health spending from 1.3% of GDP in 1960 to 3% in 1980, and has retained this level ever since. South Korea launched its national family planning programme focused on ensuring that basic maternal and child health and information services reached its large rural, agrarian population. It can be argued that Kerala, with health outcomes comparable to the developed world, is not among India’s strongest states economically. The message is clear: It is time to step up public investments as well as private philanthropy in primary, preventive health, and other human development initiatives to prepare India for its next wave of growth.

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Rise in public health spending due to States, not Centre
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Rise in public health spending due to States, not Centre

The Hindu  

Public spending on health in India has historically remained low. Note: Union government spending includes spending by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Min of AYUSH Furthermore, a significant part of the increase in health investment as a percentage of GDP during the pandemic needs to be attributed to the negative and low growth of GDP, while absolute increase …

A heartening health update
2 years, 3 months ago

A heartening health update

Hindustan Times  

The latest report of National Health Accounts — it has data for 2018-19 — shows that India continues to make progress towards reducing the burden of health spending on household budgets. This is a heartening development because the poor are more likely to gain when government spending rather than private health insurance brings about a reduction in OOP spending. As …

India@75: How India’s Health Report Since Independence Has Been Creditworthy
2 years, 4 months ago

India@75: How India’s Health Report Since Independence Has Been Creditworthy

News 18  

We are now in the third decade of the 21st century, seventy-five years after India gained Independence. According to the latest National Family Health Survey the fertility rate has fallen to less than the replacement level of 2.1 to 2.0 children per woman. Primary Healthcare Centres and 3-tier system India started its first Primary Health Centre in 1952 after the …

Loss of income, rise in health expenses: How the Covid pandemic has made Indians poorer
3 years ago

Loss of income, rise in health expenses: How the Covid pandemic has made Indians poorer

India Today  

Sample these: 65.6 per cent households in lower-income countries reported financial reasons for not accessing healthcare during the pandemic; global poverty rates have increased for the first time in decades; 9.7 crore additional people have been pushed to extreme poverty in 2020 due to Covid. “The global poverty rate has increased for the first time after the 1997-98 Asian financial …

Medical insurance ensures people's health, happiness
3 years, 10 months ago

Medical insurance ensures people's health, happiness

China Daily  

A community worker helps an elderly patient with online health insurance services at a hospital in Anqing, Anhui province, in July, 2020. Editor's Note: From "bare-foot doctors" to the most expansive and effective medical insurance system, China has made remarkable achievements in the healthcare sector. China runs the world's largest medical insurance system covering 1.35 billion people, accounting for 17.3 …

Medical insurance ensures people's health, happiness
3 years, 10 months ago

Medical insurance ensures people's health, happiness

China Daily  

A community worker helps an elderly patient with online health insurance services at a hospital in Anqing, Anhui province, in July, 2020. Editor's Note: From "bare-foot doctors" to the most expansive and effective medical insurance system, China has made remarkable achievements in the healthcare sector. China runs the world's largest medical insurance system covering 1.35 billion people, accounting for 17.3 …

Economic Survey | ‘High out-of-pocket expenses for health can lead to poverty’
3 years, 11 months ago

Economic Survey | ‘High out-of-pocket expenses for health can lead to poverty’

The Hindu  

India has one-of-the highest level of Out-Of-Pocket Expenditures contributing directly to the high incidence of catastrophic expenditures and poverty, notes the Economic Survey. The Survey also underlines that OOPE for health increases the risk of vulnerable groups slipping into poverty because of catastrophic health expenditures. The Survey added that for enabling India to respond to pandemics, the health infrastructure must …

The antidote for India’s healthcare woes
4 years ago

The antidote for India’s healthcare woes

Live Mint  

“This is indeed India!” remarked Mark Twain, as he tried to grasp the complex and nuanced Indian society. Considering that India’s healthcare spending, at 3.5% of gross domestic product, is significantly lower than peers, one would assume that higher government spending can alleviate all the pain points in the healthcare ecosystem. Similarly, India can work towards creating a Health Open …

World Population Day 2020: India need to focus on quality health care for all in the post-COVID-19 era
4 years, 5 months ago

World Population Day 2020: India need to focus on quality health care for all in the post-COVID-19 era

Firstpost  

With the private health sector failing to provide equitable healthcare, we should consider regulations to ensure it acts in the people’s interests and not in the quest for profits. As we highlight the population issues on World Population Day, it is also important to put India’s healthcare system under the scanner and address the barriers to delivering quality healthcare services …

Needed, a transfusion for public health care
4 years, 6 months ago

Needed, a transfusion for public health care

The Hindu  

A news channel in India alleged recently that several private hospitals in the country were “exposed” by a “sting operation” to be levying fees in excess when COVID-19 patients went to them for care. A mirror to public care The reason for this abundance of private health care is obviously the lack of adequate public health care. The Indian government …

Hospitals overwhelmed as coronavirus cases explode in India
4 years, 7 months ago

Hospitals overwhelmed as coronavirus cases explode in India

Al Jazeera  

More than a fifth of the country’s coronavirus cases are in Mumbai, where people struggle to find hospital beds. 630,000 to 2.1 million could be infected by July For years, India’s booming private hospitals have taken some of the strain off the country’s underfunded and dilapidated public health network, but the ordeal of Parikh’s family suggests that as coronavirus cases …

After corona: Upgrade India's healthcare fast
4 years, 8 months ago

After corona: Upgrade India's healthcare fast

Deccan Chronicle  

In the ongoing battle against the coronavirus pandemic, both central and state governments have shown great commitment in meeting the medical needs of Indians. Around 57 per cent of Indians said they had gone for treatment to government hospitals in the past one year, while 41 per cent said they avoided government hospitals. But there is a difference: while very …

India is poised for deep structural health reforms
4 years, 8 months ago

India is poised for deep structural health reforms

Hindustan Times  

Despite a history of a weak health system, India was near an inflection point on health care reforms even before the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. India’s weak health care is a legacy of limited attention to it after Independence, and the multiple priorities of a young nation. India’s per capita income and health expenditure are similar to those of …

A pandemic in an unequal India
4 years, 9 months ago

A pandemic in an unequal India

The Hindu  

If the COVID-19 pandemic lashes India with severity, it will not be just the middle class who will be affected. Coronavirus | Treat migrants humanely, Supreme Court tells officials Deepening a social divide Public health experts are divided about whether this lockdown was absolutely necessary and indeed implementable. The Union government has announced a package, including additional 5 kg grain …

Fight for the finite: On budgetary allocation for health
4 years, 9 months ago

Fight for the finite: On budgetary allocation for health

The Hindu  

It is an incontrovertible truth that material resources are finite. With the number of SARS-CoV-2 positive cases on the rise, and the number of deaths going up as well, the question is whether national and state health systems will be able to cope with ever-rising demands — for testing kits, for hospital beds, ventilators, why, even masks and hand sanitisers. …

India’s beleaguered health system braces for virus surge
4 years, 10 months ago

India’s beleaguered health system braces for virus surge

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — India is bracing for a potential explosion of coronavirus cases as authorities rush to trace, test and quarantine contacts of 31 people confirmed to have the disease. In places with limited access to clean water, washing hands to prevent the spread of the virus is difficult, said Dr. Gagandeep Kang, a microbiologist who heads India’s Translational Health …

India’s beleaguered health system braces for virus surge
4 years, 10 months ago

India’s beleaguered health system braces for virus surge

Live Mint  

India is bracing for a potential explosion of coronavirus cases as authorities rush to trace, test and quarantine contacts of 31 people confirmed to have the disease. But concerns remain over India’s overstretched health infrastructure — a single state-run hospital for every 55,591 people on average and a single hospital bed for every 1,844 people. ___ HEALTH CARE INEQUALITY India’s …

How India must tackle China’s killer bug
4 years, 11 months ago

How India must tackle China’s killer bug

Live Mint  

As China struggles to curtail the deadly new virus that has killed 81 people and spread to four continents, there are flashing warning lights for India. China’s health sector is so heavily compartmentalized that officials in the public health division, the disease control department, in hospital administration and drug procurement seldom speak to each other. That is why the panic …

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