Beyond numbers, coverage and cost: adaptive governance for post-COVID-19 reforms in India
| Autor: | Neethi V Rao, Pragati B Hebbar, N S Prashanth |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Economic growth Medicine (General) National Health Programs Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) India Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine R5-920 Political science Pandemic medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Pandemics Health policy Quality of Health Care Data collection SARS-CoV-2 Data Collection 030503 health policy & services Corporate governance Public health Health Policy public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Health Care Reform Commentary Health care reform 0305 other medical science health systems Healthcare system |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Global Health BMJ Global Health, Vol 6, Iss 2 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2059-7908 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004392 |
| Popis: | Summary box Crisis as an opportunity for change has been part of historical and development literature and is an oft-repeated theme. The Chinese word for crisis (危機), for example, consists of two symbols often characterised in popular literature as denoting ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’.1 For India’s healthcare system, the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the urgency of reform. We have learnt that no matter how long or how stringent a lockdown is, we cannot flatten the curve effectively, nor fairly, without a robust health system. In the pre-COVID-19 world, practitioners and policy-makers were gathering around the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) agenda that sought to expand the number of health services provided to the largest number of beneficiaries at the cheapest possible cost, constituting the three dimensions of UHC.2 This pandemic has made it clear that … |
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