ISBN : 9780190125318
India's disproportionately skewed health budget emphasises the need to take a closer look at health statistics: we have the highest number of women dying at childbirth and under-five mortality rates. Drawing on her considerable experience as health secretary, Sujatha Rao gives us an insider perspective of India's health system.
Part 1
India's Health System: Challenges and Constraints
1. evolution of India's Health System
2. Health Financing
3. Governance: Impacting Health systems
Part 2
implementing policy: successes, failures and the road ahead
4. scaling up to reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic
5. revitalizing rural primary healthcare
6. making our future