Health of the Nation

Ali Mehdi, Health of the Nation, ICREAR,Irudaya Rajan, Health of the Nation, Prof, Center for Development Studies

Ali Mehdi is Senior Fellow and Project Leader, Health Policy Initiative, ICRIER, New Delhi

S Irudaya Rajan is Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala

Foreword
Dedication
Preface
About the contributors
1. Introduction
ALI MEHDI
PART I: PRIORITIZING HEALTH
2. Right to health: Legal and constitutional perspectives
N.R. MADHAVA MENON
3. Towards health equity: Operationalising a human rights based approach
ABHIJIT DAS
4. Responsibility for health
ALI MEHDI
PART II: BURDEN OF DISEASE AND DISABILITY
5. Health transition in India: The demographic argument
LEELA VISARIA
6. Burden of disease: Traditional areas of concern
SANJAY KUMAR MOHANTY AND BASANT K PANDA
7. Burden of disease and disability: Emerging areas of concern
SHIVANI PATEL, K M VENKAT NARAYAN, D PRABHAKARAN, NIKHIL TANDON, KENNETH THORPE AND MOHAMMED K ALI
8. Health inequalities in India
ADITI IYER AND GITA SEN
PART III: STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
9. A new economics for health
SMITA SRINIVAS
10. Health and economy linkage: Systems and conditions in the Indian context
VENKATANARAYANA MOTKURI AND AMIR ULLAH KHAN
11. Unraveling the 'social' in social determinants and health
RAMA V BARU
12. Spatial determinants of urban health
V S SARAVANAN
13. Environmental health risks in India
KALPANA BALAKRISHNAN, ANOOP JAIN AND KIRK R SMITH
PART IV: HEALTH SECTOR DETERMINANTS AND RESOURCES
14. The policy framework: A critical assessment
K SUJATHA RAO
15. Major actors influencing health policy in India: A historical perspective
ROGER JEFFERY
16. Health care sector financing in India
ABUSALEH SHARIFF, GULREZ SHAH AZHAR AND AMIT SHARMA
17. Private sector in health
WILLIAM JOE, PALLAVI JOSHI AND SUNIL RAJPAL
18. Strategic analysis of India's private hospital sector
AKSHAT KUMAR, ROHIT GUPTA AND LAWTON R BURNS
19. The public health system in Uttar Pradesh: The systemic malaise, diagnostics and a set of prescriptions
SANTOSH MEHROTRA AND ANURAG PRIYADARSHI
PART V: HEALTH SECTOR REGULATION
20. Regulation of drug products in India: Lessons from the US and EU
RICHARD KINGHAM AND VASUDHA WATTAL
21. Regulation of medicines: Promoting global supply chain security
SUSAN WINCKLER AND ALISSA McCAFFREY
22. Under trial: Clinical research regulations in India
RAHUL MONGIA
23. The case for health insurance regulation and its evolution in India
SOMIL NAGPAL
24. Medical ethics: The Indian context
SHAH ALAM KHAN AND NEHA FARUQUI
25. Corruption in Indian health care: Going beyond scandal
SAMIRAN NUNDY, SANJAY NAGRAL AND SUNIL PANDYA
Index
About the Editors