Dr. Devendra
Kothari
Population and
Development Analyst
Forum for
Population Action
“Establish
regulatory mechanisms to monitor the cost and quality of India’s health system”
India neglected
its health care. Despite substantial improvements in some health indicators in
the past couple of decades, India contributes disproportionately to the global
burden of disease, with health indicators that compare unfavorably with other
middle-income countries and India's regional neighbors. Large health
disparities between states, between rural and urban populations, and across
social classes persist. A large proportion of the population is impoverished
because of high out-of-pocket health-care expenditures and suffers the adverse
consequences of poor quality of care. Here we make the case not only for more
resources but for a radically new architecture for India's health-care system. [1]
Only a radical
restructuring of the health-care system that promotes health equity and eliminates
impoverishment due to out-of-pocket expenditures will assure health for all
Indians by 2022—a fitting way to mark the 75th year of India's independence.
For further reading, see post entitled: India needs efficient healthcare system for overall development, No. 70, dated June 30, 2015
[1]
For details see
article at: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)00955-1/abstract
