OVERVIEW STATEMENT
Towards Health For All
This is a resource platform for conversations between activists, implementers, researchers and policy-makers on global and national health issues that are important for progress towards Health for All the Right to Health and Healthcare. It aims to provide curated access to knowledge resources relevant to these goals and disseminates the relevant work on these themes by the resource collective that has organized this website.
RECENT
Conversations On Health Policy
We are drawing attention to this recent publication from the regional WHO. In this introduction we highlight one context – the shift from selective to comprehensive care. We hope these case stories help the reader understand the complex nature of this shift, and provides grounds for optimism, that despite the challenges, such a change is feasible…..
The ESI is an amazing institution covering over 10% of the population. The ESI is conceptualized within a health rights framework and offers a basket of benefits that no other insurance programme even attempts. Yet when experts talk of UHC or publicly funded health insurance, the ESI is almost never mentioned. Performance in terms of delivery of benefits is poor, but this is not due to lack of funds, as the ESI has a huge surplus. This conversation is about how ESI must be saved, re-vitalized and expanded, as part of the struggle to achieve the right to healthcare and Health for All. And given some of the directions of reform that are being pushed, it it is also about how not to lose an asset that we never knew we had.
Last year, the ICMR initiated a process re-revisit WHO’s weight and height standards for children on grounds that these are not appropriate in the Indian context. But is this valid? Are current growth standards overstating India’s malnutrition crisis? In this conversation, Dr Yogesh Jain talks to Prof. Rakesh Lodha, AIIMS and Dr Pavitra Mohan,BHS, ( all of leading pediatric practitioners and academicians with experience in public policy) to clarify the issues and concerns underlying the current controversy and the values and goals that should inform our choice of standards.
India has the necessary digitized data systems in place to provide us with the mortality data we need, but yet due to some critical disconnects, we remain reliant on external global institutions for even state and national burden of disease estimates. In this conversation Dr. Chalapathi Rao, discusses how it is possible for state governments to generate reliable annual district level mortality information- even in the short run.
“Universal Health Coverage” was once hailed as “the single most important concept that public health has to offer.” ( Margaret Chan, 2012). But , even by WHO and UN assessments, it is off track, across most low and middle income countries !! In this conversation we look beyond implementation issues and disruption due the covid pandemic, to more basic questions about UHC as a strategy and as a discourse.”
HEALTH FOR ALL CAMPAIGN
Dictionary of Health Policy and
Library Of Case Studies
Work in progress. Not yet launched…
RECENT ARTICLES
Build Library Of Case Studies And
Other Resource Material
We are drawing attention to this recent publication from the regional WHO. In this introduction we highlight one context – the shift from selective to comprehensive care. We hope these case stories help the reader understand the complex nature of this shift, and provides grounds for optimism, that despite the challenges, such a change is feasible…..
The ESI is an amazing institution covering over 10% of the population. The ESI is conceptualized within a health rights framework and offers a basket of benefits that no other insurance programme even attempts. Yet when experts talk of UHC or publicly funded health insurance, the ESI is almost never mentioned. Performance in terms of delivery of benefits is poor, but this is not due to lack of funds, as the ESI has a huge surplus. This conversation is about how ESI must be saved, re-vitalized and expanded, as part of the struggle to achieve the right to healthcare and Health for All. And given some of the directions of reform that are being pushed, it it is also about how not to lose an asset that we never knew we had.
India has the necessary digitized data systems in place to provide us with the mortality data we need, but yet due to some critical disconnects, we remain reliant on external global institutions for even state and national burden of disease estimates. In this conversation Dr. Chalapathi Rao, discusses how it is possible for state governments to generate reliable annual district level mortality information- even in the short run.
Last year, the ICMR initiated a process re-revisit WHO’s weight and height standards for children on grounds that these are not appropriate in the Indian context. But is this valid? Are current growth standards overstating India’s malnutrition crisis? In this conversation, Dr Yogesh Jain talks to Prof. Rakesh Lodha, AIIMS and Dr Pavitra Mohan,BHS, ( all of leading pediatric practitioners and academicians with experience in public policy) to clarify the issues and concerns underlying the current controversy and the values and goals that should inform our choice of standards.
“Universal Health Coverage” was once hailed as “the single most important concept that public health has to offer.” ( Margaret Chan, 2012). But , even by WHO and UN assessments, it is off track, across most low and middle income countries !! In this conversation we look beyond implementation issues and disruption due the covid pandemic, to more basic questions about UHC as a strategy and as a discourse.”