• ISBN13: 9788126940400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Health, Physical Fitness and Yoga
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: November 27, 2024
• Pages: 440
• Original Price: INR 1495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: 972
• Item Weight: 590 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

Compiled from select essays presented at the two-day conference on Health Policy in India by the Centre for Public Policy and Governance in July 2022, Swastha Bharat and India's National Health Policy: How far are we from Universal Access? is a state-of-the-art policy book for post-COVID India. The book reflects the worries of the average citizen whose out-of-pocket health expenditure is one of the highest in the world. Covering policies and programmes in the public health domain in independent India, it delves into initiatives undertaken by the Centre and the states, and their impact on the ground reality. It addresses the gaps in health models and access to care across different states, accumulating data-based evidence for policymaking and health reforms through both public and private initiatives. The book explores alternate healthcare systems and rights perspectives, offering commentaries on the constraints and political benefits at the national, state and local government levels in the health sector.

Dr. Rumki Basu is Head, Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. A prolific researcher and author, she has written numerous articles dealing with Public Policy and Governance, International Organisations, and the Political Economy of Development in India. Her most recently published books include Democracy and Public Policy in the Post-COVID-19 World: Choices and Outcomes (2021), Public Administration in the 21st Century (2019) and Governance in South Asia (2017).

Dr. Sanghmitra Sheel Acharya is Professor and Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University. A renowned academic with extensive teaching experience in multiple reputed institutes across the world, she has published numerous books, including Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India: Lessons for Emerging Economies (2019), Caste, COVID and Inequalities of Care: Lessons from South Asia (2021) and Swachh Bharat: What We Owe to the Cleaning Brigade (2021).

• Contents
• Foreword vii-ix
• Preface xi-xii
• Introduction xiii-xxxviii
• List of Contributors xxxix-xl

• Section I

• Policies and Programmes 1-104
• 1. Shaping India’s Health Policy
• Concerns and Strategies for the Way Forward 3-27
• –Sanghmitra S. Acharya
• 2. The Ayushman Bharat Programme and Universal Health Coverage in India 29-48
• –Rumki Basu
• 3. Revamping India’s Health Infrastructure at the Grassroots Level:
• Policies and Strategies for Primary Healthcare 49-69
• –Sangita Dhal and Ishika Chauhan
• 4. Policies and Schemes for the Elderly Population in India 71-86
• –Trisha Mukhopadhyay and Bikramaditya
• Kumar Choudhary
• 5. India’s Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a Conditional Cash Transfer
• Programme Analysis using Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework 87-104
• –Jayanti Saha and Dhiman Debsarma
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• Section II

• Health Models and Access to Care 105-214
• 6. Health and Healthcare in India: The Odisha Model 107-131
• –Swarnamayee Tripathy
• 7. Healthcare in Goa: Way Forward Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) 133-146
• –Sriya Rane
• 8. Public Healthcare System in Tamil Nadu: A Comprehensive Overview 147-164
• –Eishita Tiwari
• 9. Transforming the Health System: The Kerala Way 165-178
• –Anshika Singh
• 10. Mapping Primary Healthcare Systems: A Case Study of Himachal Pradesh 179-195
• –Vaishnavi Gupta
• 11. Transforming Public Healthcare System: A Case Study of Delhi 197-214
• –Khushi Aggarwal

• Section III

• Data-Based Evidence for
• Policy Making and Access to Care 215-296
• 12. Health, SDGs and COVID-19: In the Context of Vulnerable Population 217-232
• –Sampurna Singh
• 13. Identifying the Gaps in Health Data: Illustrating from Large-Scale Datasets 233-247
• –Sampurna Kundu
• 14. Financial Protection under Government-Funded Health Insurance Schemes:
• Evidence from National Sample Survey (2017–18) 249-271
• –Indranil Mukhopadhyay, Montu Bose and Vyom Anil
• Contents v
• 15. Public Health and Community Medicine after COVID:
• A Review of India’s Health Policy 273-296
• Jugal Kishore and Sunanda Gupta

• Section IV

• Alternative Healthcare System and Rights Perspective 297-341
• 16. Prioritising Public Health in Public Policies
• The Need to Reimagine from a Rights’ Perspective 299-317
• –Bikramaditya K. Choudhary
• 17. Health Outcomes and Health System Performance
• Ranking 319-341
• of States and Union Territories as a Composite Measure
• –K. Madan Gopal, Shobhit Kumar
• and Sheena Chhabra

• Section V

• Commentaries 343-376
• 18. Public Health Profile in India 345-348
• –V. Upadhyay
• 19. Indian Pharma Industry Becoming Atmanirbhar
• A Critical Study 349-359
• –Ajay Srivastava
• 20. Lessons from India: Three Waves and the COVID Vaccination Story 361-368
• –Amrita Khaitan
• 21. Right to Health: A Revolutionary Initiative of Rajasthan 369-376
• –Sumedha Sharma
• Afterword 377-396
• 22. Towards an Inclusive Health Policy in India:
• Some Observations and the Way Forward 379-396
• –Sanghmitra S. Acharya
• Index 397-399