Universalising Healthcare in India: From Care to Coverage (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Idea of Universal Healthcare: Its Passage Through Time

Part I

Ideas, Concepts, History and Practice of UHC in India

1. Universal Health Coverage: The Trojan Horse of Neoliberal Policies

Imrana Qadeer

2. Universal Healthcare and Health Assurance Through Healthcare Industry and Market Mechanisms: Evidence Versus Ideology

Indira Chakravarthi

3. National Health Policy 2015: Growth Fundamentalism Driving Universal Health Coverage Agenda?

Indranil Mukhopadhyay

4. Interrogating the Proposed Universal Healthcare in India Through a ‘Quality’ Lens

Prachinkumar Ghodajkar

5. Growth of Private Medical Colleges in Maharashtra and Its Implications for Universal Healthcare

Archana Diwate

Part II

Evidences and Experiences of Public Private Partnerships and Health Insurance Schemes

6. A Critical Look at Public Private Partnership for Health Services in Karnataka

Sylvia Karpagam, Akhila Vasan, Elangovan Gajraj, Bijoya Roy and Imrana Qadeer

7. Role of Public Private Partnerships in Ensuring Universal Healthcare for India

Bijoya Roy

8. Unaccountable Deaths and Damages: An Analysis of Socio-Legal Implications of Sterilisation Camp Deaths in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

P.M. Arathi

Rajib Dasgupta, Sulakshana Nandi, Kanica Kanungo, Madhurima Nundy, Ganapathy Murugan, Samir Garg, Dipa Sinha, Sangeeta Sahu and Reeti Mahobe

10. Aarogyasri Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, India: Some Critical Reflections

Sunita Reddy and Immaculate Mary

Part III

Drugs and Pharmaceuticals: Critique of Policies and Practices

11. Developments in India’s Domestic Pharmaceutical Sector and Implications for Universal Healthcare in India

Biswajit Dhar and Reji K. Joseph

12. Vaccine Policy of the Government of India: Driven and Controlled by Vested Interests?

Jacob Puliyel

13. Availability and Access to Medicines: Some Issues in Pricing

S. Srinivasan and Malini Aisola

14. Vaccines and Vaccine Policy for Universal Healthcare

Y. Madhavi

15. Drugs and Vaccines in Healthcare: Problems and Possibilities

Pushpa M. Bhargava

Part IV

Missing Links in the Debate

16. The Elusive Development: Poverty, Inequality and

Vulnerability

K.B. Saxena

17. Water Governance and Supply in Urban Areas

Dunu Roy, Vasudha Akshintala and Ruchika Sharma

18. Challenges of Reclaiming the Public Health System: Experiences of Community-Based Monitoring and Planning in Maharashtra

Abhay Shukla and P.M. Arathi

19. Constrained by Purchasing Power: The Story of Calorie Intake in India Post-Liberalisation

Sourindra Mohan Ghosh