Universalising Healthcare in India

Imrana Qadeer is a Distinguished Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India. She is a well-known public health expert. Before joining CSD in 2012, she was a professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she taught for 35 years and then served as a J.P. Naik senior fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies. Her area of interest includes organizational issues in health services in South Asia with a special focus on India, social epidemiology and political economy of health, women’s health and research methodology with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research methodologies. She has also worked with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Planning Commission, Population Commission and the advisory and monitoring bodies for the National Rural Health Mission. K B Saxena is a Distinguished Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India. He was a teacher of Political Science in the University of Delhi before he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1964 and held important government positions such as Joint Secretary, Land Reforms; Additional, Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar; Secretary in the Ministries of Welfare, Rural Development and Health, Government of India. He was Principal Adviser to the Planning Commission as well. Prof. Saxena prepared the report on Atrocities against Scheduled Castes for the National Human Rights Commission and has contributed a number of articles and papers and edited several books. P.M. Arathi, Assistant Professor, School of Indian Legal Thought, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Dr. Arathi holds a masters in law specializing in healthcare law. She has been an assistant professor in law (FIP Substitute) at Government Law College, Thrissur, Kerala, and a research assistant on a collaborative project of the London School of Economics and Jawaharlal Nehru University on spousal violence in India. She also worked as Assistant Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India.

Introduction: The Idea of Universal Healthcare: Its Passage Through TimePart I

Ideas, Concepts, History and Practice of UHC in India

1. Universal Health Coverage: The Trojan Horse of Neoliberal Policies

Imrana Qadeer

2. Universal Healthcare and Health Assurance Through Healthcare Industry and Market Mechanisms: Evidence Versus Ideology

Indira Chakravarthi

3. National Health Policy 2015: Growth Fundamentalism Driving Universal Health Coverage Agenda?

Indranil Mukhopadhyay

4. Interrogating the Proposed Universal Healthcare in India Through a ‘Quality’ Lens

Prachinkumar Ghodajkar

5. Growth of Private Medical Colleges in Maharashtra and Its Implications for Universal Healthcare

Archana Diwate

Part II

Evidences and Experiences of Public Private Partnerships and Health Insurance Schemes

6. A Critical Look at Public Private Partnership for Health Services in Karnataka

Sylvia Karpagam, Akhila Vasan, Elangovan Gajraj, Bijoya Roy and Imrana Qadeer

7. Role of Public Private Partnerships in Ensuring Universal Healthcare for India

Bijoya Roy

8. Unaccountable Deaths and Damages: An Analysis of Socio-Legal Implications of Sterilisation Camp Deaths in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

P.M. Arathi

9. Universal Healthcare and Universalising Health Insurance: Examining the Binary Through the RSBY/MSBY in Chhattisgarh

Rajib Dasgupta, Sulakshana Nandi, Kanica Kanungo, Madhurima Nundy, Ganapathy Murugan, Samir Garg, Dipa Sinha, Sangeeta Sahu and Reeti Mahobe

10. Aarogyasri Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, India: Some Critical Reflections

Sunita Reddy and Immaculate Mary

Part III

Drugs and Pharmaceuticals: Critique of Policies and Practices

11. Developments in India’s Domestic Pharmaceutical Sector and Implications for Universal Healthcare in India

Biswajit Dhar and Reji K. Joseph

12. Vaccine Policy of the Government of India: Driven and Controlled by Vested Interests?

Jacob Puliyel

13. Availability and Access to Medicines: Some Issues in Pricing

S. Srinivasan and Malini Aisola

14. Vaccines and Vaccine Policy for Universal Healthcare

Y. Madhavi

15. Drugs and Vaccines in Healthcare: Problems and Possibilities

Pushpa M. Bhargava

Part IV

Missing Links in the Debate

16. The Elusive Development: Poverty, Inequality and

Vulnerability

K.B. Saxena

17. Water Governance and Supply in Urban Areas

Dunu Roy, Vasudha Akshintala and Ruchika Sharma

18. Challenges of Reclaiming the Public Health System: Experiences of Community-Based Monitoring and Planning in Maharashtra

Abhay Shukla and P.M. Arathi

19. Constrained by Purchasing Power: The Story of Calorie Intake in India Post-Liberalisation

Sourindra Mohan Ghosh