Overview
- Provides detailed expose of the structure, function and the true nature of Private Health Sector Care
- Details extensively how the practices of the private sector adversely affect the people, the consumers of health and the providers of health
- Shows the ways and means to use the capabilities of private sector for the good of people
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book brings together all the major components of the private health care sector in India, with detailed description of its evolution, the foundational ideas, its development, the positives and ill effects on the population. It suggests intelligible and practical remedies for public good.
The book presents a comprehensive review of private health care sector’s resistance to Indian Government’s reforms like the national medical commission, NEET, clinical establishment act and the new boost to the traditional medicine by the Indian government. The author has discussed contentious areas like Corporate Hospitals, Capitation Fee Colleges, Pharmaceutical Industry, Western Models in Health Care, Integration of Medical Systems, Ayushman Bharat Scheme, Health Insurance and Public Private Partnership on a massive scale.
Authors and Affiliations
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 Private Health Care Delivery
Book Subtitle: Critique and Remedies
Authors: Sanjeev Kelkar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9778-7
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: 978-981-15-9777-0Published: 20 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9778-7Published: 19 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLI, 386
Topics: Health Care Management, Development and Health, Health Administration, Health Policy, Practice and Hospital Management