Health Providers In India

Author : Kabir Sheikh,Asha George
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136516825

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This volume has articles contributed by health researchers, practitioners, policy advocates, programme managers and a journalist, and poems by renowned poet–physician Gieve Patel. Each presents a distinctive view of a particular group of frontline health providers, based on field research or on the authors’ respective experiences of working with or as providers. The health providers addressed in this volume include doctors (working in the public and private sectors), nurses, public health workers, counsellors, traditional practitioners and homecare providers. Different groups of health providers face struggles at diverse frontiers — social, professional and systemic. In the context of reforming health systems, government health workers must constantly negotiate the vagaries of changing working environments and policy vacillations. For traditional and homecare providers, formal health systems and structures often only reject and exclude their contributions. Medical doctors, conversely, face difficult challenges of introspection, as they tread the line between personal gain and public service. The ideas and themes that emerge in this collection not only contribute to the understanding of providers’ roles as actors in the health systems and societies of contemporary India, but re-examines preconceptions about this critical occupational group. This volume advances the case for a deeper appreciation of India’s complex landscape of healthcare provision, and of the potential roles of frontline health providers as central figures in development.

Author : Kabir Sheikh,Asha George
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136516832

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This volume has articles contributed by health researchers, practitioners, policy advocates, programme managers and a journalist, and poems by renowned poet–physician Gieve Patel. Each presents a distinctive view of a particular group of frontline health providers, based on field research or on the authors’ respective experiences of working with or as providers. The health providers addressed in this volume include doctors (working in the public and private sectors), nurses, public health workers, counsellors, traditional practitioners and homecare providers. Different groups of health providers face struggles at diverse frontiers — social, professional and systemic. In the context of reforming health systems, government health workers must constantly negotiate the vagaries of changing working environments and policy vacillations. For traditional and homecare providers, formal health systems and structures often only reject and exclude their contributions. Medical doctors, conversely, face difficult challenges of introspection, as they tread the line between personal gain and public service. The ideas and themes that emerge in this collection not only contribute to the understanding of providers’ roles as actors in the health systems and societies of contemporary India, but re-examines preconceptions about this critical occupational group. This volume advances the case for a deeper appreciation of India’s complex landscape of healthcare provision, and of the potential roles of frontline health providers as central figures in development.

Author : A. Venkat Raman,James Warner Björkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134035045

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Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care in India by A. Venkat Raman,James Warner Björkman Pdf

The book examines how the private sector in developing countries, specifically India, is tapped to deliver health care services to poor and underserved sections of population, through collaborative arrangements with the government.

Author : Dr. M. Kishore Babu,Dr. G. Prasad,Dr. T Sreenivas,B. Sirisha
Publisher : Vandana Publications
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788193482285

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Globalisation of Indian Healthcare Services by Dr. M. Kishore Babu,Dr. G. Prasad,Dr. T Sreenivas,B. Sirisha Pdf

India has a comprehensive Healthcare system comprising government and private service providers. Indian healthcare sector comprise of both allopathy & Alternative systems of medicine i.e. AYUSH. Indian Healthcare industry is worth Rs. 730 billion, and occupies 4 per cent of country’s GDP. In India, the Healthcare system is organised into primary, secondary and tertiary levels of delivery system. Healthcare ServicesDuring 2010-11, sales of the industry had grown by 25.4 per cent. During 2011-12 and 2012-13, transactions are expected to grow by a healthy 18.6 per cent and 20.5 per cent respectively. The National Health Policy (NHP)in light of the Directive Principles of the constitution of India recommends "universal, comprehensive primary health care services which are relevant to the actual needs and priorities of the community at a cost which people can afford". Globally, health expenditure as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ballooned in the second half of the 20th century, experiencing an almost threefold increase from 3 per cent in the 1950s to 8.5 per cent by 2014. According to the OECD, key drivers of greater health spending include: Rising incomes; Demographic trends; Ageing Population; Epidemiological trends; and Development and diffusion of new technologies and drugs. The four modes of cross-border delivery of services under GATS can be summarized as follows: Services supplied from one country to another; Consumers or firms making use of a service in another country; A foreign company setting up subsidiaries or branches to provide services in another country; and Individuals travelling from their own country to supply services in another country. Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in the hospitals and diagnostic center segment has reached a new high in India. India is already charged in this route as evident from the 100% allowance of FDI in the hospital segment under automatic route, since January 2000. There is also an increasing interest among private equity funds, domestic and international financial institutions, venture capitalists, and banks to examine investment opportunities across an extensive range of segments. A developing country like India can adopt a mechanism for healthcare delivery for medical tourists to strengthen its economy by Creating an efficient and economic human resource pool (skilled medical and paramedical professionals), offer competitive costs and high quality of care to medical tourists.

Author : M. Ramesh,Azad S. Bali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108483537

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Health Policy in Asia by M. Ramesh,Azad S. Bali Pdf

Studies the design of health systems in Asia and assesses their efforts to achieve and sustain universal health care.

Author : Purendra Prasad,Amar Jesani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199093731

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Equity and Access by Purendra Prasad,Amar Jesani Pdf

Equity and Access attempts to unravel the complex narrative of why inequities in the health sector are growing and access to basic health care is worsening, and the underlying forces that contribute to this situation. It draws attention to the way globalization has influenced India’s development trajectory as healthcare issues have assumed significant socio-economic and political significance in contemporary India. The volume explains how state and market forces have progressively heightened the iniquitous health care system and the process through which substantial burden of meeting health care needs has fallen on the individual households. Twenty-eight scholars comprising social scientists, medical experts, public health experts, policy makers, health activists, legal experts, and gender specialists have delved into the politics of access for different classes, castes, gender, and other categories to contribute to a new field ‘health care studies’ in this volume. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach within a broader political-economy framework, the volume is useful for understanding power relations within social groups and complex organizational systems.

Author : Monica Das Gupta
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Public health
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Public Health in India by Monica Das Gupta Pdf

"Public health services, which reduce a population's exposure to disease through such measures as sanitation and vector control, are an essential part of a country's development infrastructure. In the industrial world and East Asia, systematic public health efforts raised labor productivity and life expectancies well before modern curative technologies became widely available, and helped set the stage for rapid economic growth and poverty reduction. The enormous business and other costs of the breakdown of these services are illustrated by the current global epidemic of avian flu, emanating from poor poultry-keeping practices in a few Chinese villages. For various reasons, mostly of political economy, public funds for health services in India have been focused largely on medical services, and public health services have been neglected. This is reflected in a virtual absence of modern public health regulations and of systematic planning and delivery of public health services. Various organizational issues also militate against the rational deployment of personnel and funds for disease control. There is strong capacity for dealing with outbreaks when they occur, but not to prevent them from occurring. Impressive capacity also exists for conducting intensive campaigns, but not for sustaining these gains on a continuing basis after the campaign. This is illustrated by the near eradication of malaria through highly organized efforts in the 1950s, and its resurgence when attention shifted to other priorities such as family planning. This paper reviews the fundamental obstacles to effective disease control in India and indicates new policy thrusts that can help overcome these obstacles. "-- World Bank web site.

Author : Diatha Krishna Sundar,Shashank Garg,Isha Garg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317408949

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Public Health in India by Diatha Krishna Sundar,Shashank Garg,Isha Garg Pdf

Despite rapid advances in modern medicine and state-of-the-art health care services in the private sector, primary health care in India remains inaccessible to a majority of the population. Besides, even policymakers often do not have access to real-time data to fine-tune their policies or design appropriate research and intervention programmes. Drawing on field experiences, this volume brings together scholars and practitioners to examine public health from different perspectives. It discusses practical and applied issues related to the health sector, especially the role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT); participation of civil society; service delivery; quality evaluation; consumer empowerment; data management; and research and intervention. This book will be useful to scholars, students and practitioners of public health in developing countries such as India. It will also interest policymakers, health care professionals, and departments of public health management and those concerned with community medicine.

Author : Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739192078

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Critical Reflections on Health Services Development in India by Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar Pdf

The book undertakes a critical examination of health service development in India and provides an explanation of its underdevelopment. It analyzes the trajectory of health services development in India and dissects the roles of various actors which shape that process viz. the State, civil society, and the people. It helps you to arrive at a less ambiguous analytical paradigm regarding a complex scenario discernible in a country like India where diversities across regions and states make it difficult to advance a pan Indian framework, strategy, or theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Business Standard Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 9789380740003

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India Health Report, 2010 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sai Ma,Neeraj Sood
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780833045379

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A Comparison of the Health Systems in China and India by Sai Ma,Neeraj Sood Pdf

The health status of residents of China and India lags behind relative to other populations, and health gains in each country have been uneven across subpopulations. Each health system provides little protection against financial risk, and patient satisfaction is a lower priority than it should be. This paper compares the Chinese and Indian health systems to determine what approaches to improving health in these two countries do and do not work.

Author : Vijay Govindarajan,Ravi Ramamurti
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633693678

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Reverse Innovation in Health Care by Vijay Govindarajan,Ravi Ramamurti Pdf

Health-Care Solutions from a Distant Shore Health care in the United States and other nations is on a collision course with patient needs and economic reality. For more than a decade, leading thinkers, including Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, have argued passionately for value-based health-care reform: replacing delivery based on volume and fee-for-service with competition based on value, as measured by patient outcomes per dollar spent. Though still a pipe dream here in the United States, this kind of value-based competition is already a reality--in India. Facing a giant population of poor, underserved people and a severe shortage of skills and capacity, some resourceful private enterprises have found a way to deliver high-quality health care, at ultra-low prices, to all patients who need it. This book shows how the innovations developed by these Indian exemplars are already being practiced by some far-sighted US providers--reversing the typical flow of innovation in the world. Govindarajan and Ramamurti, experts in the phenomenon of reverse innovation, reveal four pathways being used by health-care organizations in the United States to apply Indian-style principles to attack the exorbitant costs, uneven quality, and incomplete access to health care. With rich stories and detailed accounts of medical professionals who are putting these ideas into practice, this book shows how value-based delivery can be made to work in the United States. This "bottom-up" change doesn't require a grand plan out of Washington, DC, agreement between entrenched political parties, or coordination among all players in the health-care system. It needs entrepreneurs with innovative ideas about delivering value to patients. Reverse innovation has worked in other industries. We need it now in health care.

Author : Dilly Borhas George
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Winning the health care race : Strategies for Hospital marketing excellence in india by Dilly Borhas George Pdf

"Winning the health care race : Strategies for hospital marketing excellence in India " written by Dilly Borhas,provides a comprehensive guide on hospital marketing in the Indian context. The book delves in to various marketing tools and strategies that can help hospitals stay ahead in the competitive healthcare industry in India. The author has shared practical insights ,case studies, and examples to explain how hospitals can effectively market their services to attract and retain patients .This book serves as a valuable resource for hospital administrators, marketing professionals, and anyone interested in understanding the nuances of hospital marketing in India.

Author : Rais Akhtar
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health facilities
ISBN : 8176486841

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India by Rais Akhtar Pdf

This Book Discusses Spatial Pattern Of Inequalities In Health Care Facilities In India In General And In Various States In Particular, Indigenous System Of Medicine I.E., Unaai, And Homeopathy And Planning And Accessibility Models.

Author : David H. Peters
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0821350293

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Better Health Systems for India's Poor by David H. Peters Pdf

This report focuses on health sector reform and outlines some broad measures for reform in this sector. It evaluates policy options and presents the theory and evidence to support these policy choices. This report also offers specific proposals to improve health policy and strengthen implementation across India. It is a product of extensive consultation and research undertaken by more than a dozen institutions.