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 know that markets do not work to assure quality health care!! But what does? Over the last 15 years, the NHM has developed the National Quality Assurance System (NQAS) to assure quality in public health services. What is NQAS? Is it working? Is it scaleable? Is it enough? This conversation between Yogesh Jain and Sundararaman, the 8th in our series, explores the answers!!
The challenge is to secure ASHAs own rights as a woman and a front line health worker, while continuing to strengthen her solidarity with the community as part of an alternative vision of an organization of health services.
Four years after the pandemic, we have learnt a lot about it. But there is a lot we do not know as well. This is a time for reminding ourselves of what we went through and learning from it- so that we can truly say– never again !!
Much of what is said in the Negotiating Text of Pandemic Agreement is necessary and welcome. But is it sufficient to ensure that we never again have to experience the social, economic, health and human rights catastrophe that we have just been through during the Covid 19 pandemic??”
This is a picture of a 18 month old girl with severe pain due to dactylitis. Needless suffering. !!. The current policy is aspirational but flawed and needs to get it’s priorities right …
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
The need for a new act replacing the Medical Council Act is no doubt of utmost importance. Unfortunately, the National Medical Council Bill of 2019, now an Act.
This component of Ayushman Bharat promises to upgrade health sub-centers and primary health centers into what is called health and wellness centers.
We know that markets do not work to assure quality health care!! But what does? Over the last 15 years, the NHM has developed the National Quality Assurance System (NQAS) to assure quality in public health services. What is NQAS? Is it working? Is it scaleable? Is it enough? This conversation between Yogesh Jain and Sundararaman, the 8th in our series, explores the answers!!
The challenge is to secure ASHAs own rights as a woman and a front line health worker, while continuing to strengthen her solidarity with the community as part of an alternative vision of an organization of health services.
Four years after the pandemic, we have learnt a lot about it. But there is a lot we do not know as well. This is a time for reminding ourselves of what we went through and learning from it- so that we can truly say– never again !!