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Universalising Healthcare in India

From Care to Coverage

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Editors:
  1. Imrana Qadeer

    1. Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India

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  2. K. B. Saxena

    1. Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India

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  3. P. M. Arathi

    1. School of Indian Legal Thought, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India

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  • Discusses the contemporary issues of healthcare system in India

  • Examines the role of corporate private sector in the healthcare industry

  • Focuses on key developmental issues and a range of related public health policies in India

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lix
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  3. Evidences and Experiences of Public–Private Partnerships and Health Insurance Schemes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. A Critical Look at Public Private Partnership for Health Services in Karnataka

      • Sylvia Karpagam, Akhila Vasan, Elangovan Gajraj, Bijoya Roy, Imrana Qadeer
      Pages 105-118

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

      • Bijoya Roy
      Pages 119-139

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

      • P. M. Arathi
      Pages 141-154

    5. Universal Healthcare and Universalising Health Insurance: Examining the Binary Through the RSBY/MSBY in Chhattisgarh

      • Rajib Dasgupta, Sulakshana Nandi, Kanica Kanungo, Madhurima Nundy, Ganapathy Murugan, Samir Garg et al.
      Pages 155-172

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

      • Sunita Reddy, Immaculate Mary
      Pages 173-192

    7. Health Insurance to Achieve Health for All: A Critical Appraisal of Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana

      • Sourindra Mohan Ghosh, Imrana Qadeer
      Pages 193-200

  4. Drugs and Pharmaceuticals: Critique of Policies and Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Developments in India’s Domestic Pharmaceutical Sector and Implications for Universal Healthcare in India

      • Biswajit Dhar, Reji K. Joseph
      Pages 203-216

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

      • Jacob Puliyel
      Pages 217-237

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

      • S. Srinivasan, Malini Aisola
      Pages 239-258

    5. Vaccines and Vaccine Policy for Universal Healthcare

      • Y. Madhavi
      Pages 259-287

    6. Drugs and Vaccines in Healthcare: Problems and Possibilities

      • Pushpa M. Bhargava
      Pages 289-296
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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive overview of universal health coverage in India. It starts by setting the historical context and politics of the debates around universal health coverage (UHC) in India and proceeds to analyze the present crisis of public health in the country. The book examines the present policies on the pharmaceutical industry, missing links in universalizing health, and the importance of social determinants of health. It is divided into five sections, and some of the topics covered include the difference between comprehensive primary health care and universal health care, public health and medical care, health service, and health system.  The chapters are contributed by scholars and practitioners based on historical, interdisciplinary, empirical, and policy research. The book is insightful to academics, public health administrators, policymakers, practitioners, and students interested in health care and organization, looking to transform theory into policy and practice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India

    Imrana Qadeer, K. B. Saxena

  • School of Indian Legal Thought, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India

    P. M. Arathi

About the editors

Imrana Qadeer is a Distinguished Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India. She is a well-known public health expert. Before joining CSD in 2012, she was a professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she taught for 35 years and then served as a J.P. Naik senior fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies. Her area of interest includes organizational issues in health services in South Asia with a special focus on India, social epidemiology and political economy of health, women’s health and research methodology with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research methodologies. She has also worked with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Planning Commission, Population Commission and the advisory and monitoring bodies for the National Rural Health Mission.


K B Saxena is a Distinguished Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India. He was a teacher of Political Science in the University of Delhi before he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1964 and held important government positions such as Joint Secretary, Land Reforms; Additional, Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar; Secretary in the Ministries of Welfare, Rural Development and Health, Government of India. He was Principal Adviser to the Planning Commission as well. Prof. Saxena prepared the report on Atrocities against Scheduled Castes for the National Human Rights Commission and has contributed a number of articles and papers and edited several books.


P.M. Arathi, Assistant Professor, School of Indian Legal Thought, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Dr. Arathi holds a masters in law specializing in healthcare law. She has been an assistant professor in law (FIP Substitute) at Government Law College, Thrissur, Kerala, and a research assistant on a collaborative project of the London School of Economics and Jawaharlal Nehru University on spousal violence in India. She also worked as Assistant Professor at Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Universalising Healthcare in India

  • Book Subtitle: From Care to Coverage

  • Editors: Imrana Qadeer, K. B. Saxena, P. M. Arathi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5872-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5871-6Published: 21 October 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5874-7Published: 22 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5872-3Published: 20 October 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LIX, 401

  • Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Health Psychology, Public Health, Health Care Management, Health Administration

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