Special edition: India - Towards universal health coverage
Publisher/Organizer: The Lancet
Publication date: 2011
Language: English
11 JANUARY 2011 - This Series of papers on India’s path to full health coverage reveals that a failing health system is perhaps India’s greatest predicament. The papers in this Series reveal the full extent of opportunities and difficulties in Indian healthcare, by examining infectious and chronic diseases, availability of treatments and doctors, and the infrastructure to bring about universal health care by 2020. The Series brings together a rapidly growing body of evidence to show that Indian health is in crisis. As the country with the largest democracy in the world, India is well positioned to put health high on the political agenda.
One notable absentee from the launch of the Series on 11 Jan 11 2011 is paediatrician and Comment author Binayak Sen. He remains in prison, an appalling situation discussed in an Editorial in the Jan 8-14 issue of The Lancet
Series comments
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Indian health: the path from crisis to progress
Richard Horton, Pam Das -
Universal health care in India: the time is right
Vikram Patel, AK Shiva Kumar, Vinod K Paul, Krishna D Rao, K Srinath Reddy -
Securing the right to health for all in India
Binayak Sen -
Gender equity and universal health coverage in India
Anita Raj -
India: access to affordable drugs and the right to health
Anand Grover, Brian Citro -
Good governance in health care: the Karnataka experience
Hanumappa Sudarshan, NS Prashanth -
Research to achieve health care for all in India
Lalit Dandona, VM Katoch, Rakhi Dandona -
Universal health care in India: missing core determinants
Ravi Narayan -
Towards a truly universal Indian health system
Amit Sengupta, Vandana Prasad
Series papers
- Summary: Continuing challenge of infectious diseases in India
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Summary: Reproductive health, and child health and nutrition in India: meeting the challenge
Vinod Kumar Paul, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Dileep Mavalankar, Prema Ramachandran, Mari Jeeva Sankar, Nita Bhandari, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Thiagarajan Sundararaman, Dipti Govil, David Osrin, Betty Kirkwood -
Summary: Chronic diseases and injuries in India
Vikram Patel, Somnath Chatterji, Dan Chisholm, Shah Ebrahim, Gururaj Gopalakrishna, Colin Mathers, Viswanathan Mohan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Ravilla D Ravindran, K Srinath Reddy -
Summary: Health care and equity in India
Y Balarajan, S Selvaraj, SV Subramanian -
Summary: Human resources for health in India
Mohan Rao, Krishna D Rao, AK Shiva Kumar, Mirai Chatterjee, Thiagarajan Sundararaman -
Summary: Financing health care for all: challenges and opportunities
AK Shiva Kumar, Lincoln C Chen, Mita Choudhury, Shiban Ganju, Vijay Mahajan, Amarjeet Sinha, Abhijit Sen -
Summary: Towards achievement of universal health care in India by 2020: a call to action
K Srinath Reddy, Vikram Patel, Prabhat Jha, Vinod K Paul, AK Shiva Kumar, Lalit Dandona