Do We Care?
India’s Health System
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9780199469543
Publication date:
03/01/2017
Hardback
478 pages
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ISBN:
9780199469543
Publication date:
03/01/2017
Hardback
478 pages
K. Sujatha Rao
Drawing on her experience as the former union health secretary, K. Sujatha Rao gives us an unsparingly candid insider’s view of India’s health system. This richly detailed book favours increasing the health budget, greater use of technology, and providing leadership and good governance. Rao argues that unless good health is prioritized as a national goal, India’s growth story will remain largely self-congratulatory.
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K. Sujatha Rao
Description
India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Yet health is not a part of our ambitious development story. In fact, India’s disproportionately stingy healthcare budget makes some of the poorer nations look better in comparison. Statistics, however, speak louder than critics: we have one of the highest numbers of women dying in childbirth and under-five mortality rates. Every year nearly sixty million people get pushed below the poverty line due to the health expenditures that they incur. But there are a few bright spots too: India has eradicated polio and reversed the incidence of HIV/AIDS by an impressive margin.
Drawing on her experience as the former union health secretary, K. Sujatha Rao gives us an unsparingly candid insider’s view of India’s health system. This richly detailed book favours increasing the health budget, greater use of technology, and providing leadership and good governance. Rao argues that unless good health is prioritized as a national goal, India’s growth story will remain largely self-congratulatory.
About the Author
K. Sujatha Rao is a former union secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Of her 36-year-long service as a civil servant, she spent close to 20 years in the health sector in different capacities at both state and federal levels.
K. Sujatha Rao
Table of contents
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Part I: India’s Health System: Challenges and Constraints
1. Evolution of India’s Health System
2. Health Financing
3. Governance: Impacting the Health System
Part II: Implementing Policy: Successes, Failures, and the Road Ahead
4. Scaling Up to Reverse the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
5. Revitalizing Rural Primary Healthcare: The National Rural Health Mission
6. Making Our Future
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
K. Sujatha Rao
Features
- An accessible, insider’s account of the making of India’s health policy in contemporary times
- Documents the history of health policy initiatives in India
- Examines the efforts made in the last decade to strengthen the public healthcare system
K. Sujatha Rao
Review
‘Sujatha Rao is a longtime leader in public health who has decided she has nothing to lose from telling the truth. Do We Care? is a fearless book. Rao speaks from the heart. And she has solutions. This is a voice worth listening to.’
—Atul Gawande, Professor, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and author of Being Mortal
‘A passionate account of government failure in ensuring basic healthcare to people. Rao brings out the glaring inadequacies of the system vividly with the anguish of denial of this basic human right. A must read for all health policy analysts and policymakers.’
—M. Govinda Rao, Member, Fourteenth Finance Commission, Government of India, and Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India
‘Few countries better exemplify the trials health systems are facing than India. Do We Care? provides a fresh and rigorous look at the past and current evolution of the country’s health system that offers valuable lessons for the developing world. It is a must read for scholars and decision makers interested in India, in particular, and in global health, in general.’
—Julio Frenk, President, University of Miami, Florida, USA and former Minister of Health, Mexico.
Description
India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Yet health is not a part of our ambitious development story. In fact, India’s disproportionately stingy healthcare budget makes some of the poorer nations look better in comparison. Statistics, however, speak louder than critics: we have one of the highest numbers of women dying in childbirth and under-five mortality rates. Every year nearly sixty million people get pushed below the poverty line due to the health expenditures that they incur. But there are a few bright spots too: India has eradicated polio and reversed the incidence of HIV/AIDS by an impressive margin.
Drawing on her experience as the former union health secretary, K. Sujatha Rao gives us an unsparingly candid insider’s view of India’s health system. This richly detailed book favours increasing the health budget, greater use of technology, and providing leadership and good governance. Rao argues that unless good health is prioritized as a national goal, India’s growth story will remain largely self-congratulatory.
About the Author
K. Sujatha Rao is a former union secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Of her 36-year-long service as a civil servant, she spent close to 20 years in the health sector in different capacities at both state and federal levels.
Reviews
‘Sujatha Rao is a longtime leader in public health who has decided she has nothing to lose from telling the truth. Do We Care? is a fearless book. Rao speaks from the heart. And she has solutions. This is a voice worth listening to.’
—Atul Gawande, Professor, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and author of Being Mortal
‘A passionate account of government failure in ensuring basic healthcare to people. Rao brings out the glaring inadequacies of the system vividly with the anguish of denial of this basic human right. A must read for all health policy analysts and policymakers.’
—M. Govinda Rao, Member, Fourteenth Finance Commission, Government of India, and Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India
‘Few countries better exemplify the trials health systems are facing than India. Do We Care? provides a fresh and rigorous look at the past and current evolution of the country’s health system that offers valuable lessons for the developing world. It is a must read for scholars and decision makers interested in India, in particular, and in global health, in general.’
—Julio Frenk, President, University of Miami, Florida, USA and former Minister of Health, Mexico.
Table of contents
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Part I: India’s Health System: Challenges and Constraints
1. Evolution of India’s Health System
2. Health Financing
3. Governance: Impacting the Health System
Part II: Implementing Policy: Successes, Failures, and the Road Ahead
4. Scaling Up to Reverse the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
5. Revitalizing Rural Primary Healthcare: The National Rural Health Mission
6. Making Our Future
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
