Universalising Healthcare in India: From Care to Coverage

This book provides a comprehensive overview of universal health coverage in India. It starts by setting the historical context and politics of the debates around universal health coverage (UHC) in India and proceeds to analyze the present crisis of public health in the country. The book examines the present policies on the pharmaceutical industry, missing links in universalizing health, and the importance of social determinants of health. It is divided into five sections, and some of the topics covered include the difference between comprehensive primary health care and universal health care, public health and medical care, health service, and health system. The chapters are contributed by scholars and practitioners based on historical, interdisciplinary, empirical, and policy research. The book is insightful to academics, public health administrators, policymakers, practitioners, and students interested in health care and organization, looking to transform theory into policy andpractice.

About the Author

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 workedas Assistant Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India.