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Health policy processes in India: institutions, interests, ideas and contemporary debates

In: Research Handbook on Health Care Policy

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  • Veena Sriram
  • Sudha Ramani
  • Prashanth N. Srinivas

Abstract

Health policy in India aims to provide universal health care to all, and to deliver quality services at affordable costs. Despite improvements in certain health outcomes, striking inequities by caste, religion, region and indigeneity, among other aspects, remain. Existing health system infrastructure, capacity, quality and financing appears incommensurate with levels to address these challenges, as starkly highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The last two decades has seen an accelerating focus on health in political agendas at the national and state levels, shaped by myriad influences including international debates around Universal Health Coverage, Sustainable Development Goals and health security, and localized debates around systems of medicine and the balance between public and private health sectors. In this chapter, we describe and analyze contemporary health policy processes in India, beginning with a brief description of health systems and health status in India, followed by a review of key institutions, ideas and interests shaping health policy processes in India.

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  • Veena Sriram & Sudha Ramani & Prashanth N. Srinivas, 2024. "Health policy processes in India: institutions, interests, ideas and contemporary debates," Chapters, in: Martin Powell & Tuba I. Agartan & Daniel Béland (ed.), Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, chapter 19, pages 327-346, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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