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India's Public Health Care Delivery

Policies for Universal Health Care

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  • © 2021

Overview

  • Provides detailed and reasoned analysis of the defects of the entire structure and function of Indian public healthcare system
  • Provides comprehensive and detailed blue print of how to make public health care delivery highly effective
  • Presents sea change India has undergone and emphasizes new ways of managing health

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

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About this book

This book describes the present awful state of India’s Public Health Care Delivery, its dismal planning and implementation. It argues that it can be remedied comprehensively and effectively, using its ‘own already present’ resources. A radical re-evaluation of some sacrosanct ideas and discarding many of these, especially in Primary Care and its structure is required. It can be done without disadvantage to the last man served. 

This book starts with the sea change India has undergone and emphasizes new ways of managing health. High quality work force creation and its deployment, an unsolved problem is effectively given a solution. The bulk of the book discusses the entire public health care structure and function and how it can be newly laid out with proper work force allocation, hitherto grossly inadequate, including professionals from other training backgrounds. It is total solution that will help India to achieve the goal of Universal Health Care.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Pune, India

    Sanjeev Kelkar

About the author

Sanjeev Kelkar is an MD in Internal Medicine who has worked in varied fields of health care, from tribal India to tertiary care Institutes and multinational pharmaceuticals, to establishing hospitals with modern facilities, intensive care units in rural West Bengal and Tripura and has done seminal work in the area of tuberculosis. A key figure in India, he has successfully conducted innovative teaching programs for postgraduate doctors in collaboration with the Australian University in Newcastle for which he was awarded by the Australian Government and the Australian Industry. He has direct long term 360 degree view and experience of the health care and the issues plaguing the same. He actively writes on health care policy and political issues. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: India's Public Health Care Delivery

  • Book Subtitle: Policies for Universal Health Care

  • Authors: Sanjeev Kelkar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4180-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4179-1Published: 06 March 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4180-7Published: 05 March 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 496

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Health Care Management, Health Policy, Development and Health

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