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CUHA’s insights on health systems, financing, primary care, affordability of medicines and diagnostics, and policy innovations shaping India’s journey towards universal, equitable, and responsive healthcare.
India’s healthcare discourse has, for good reason, focused on expanding insurance coverage, improving service availability and strengthening health outcomes. One critical dimension remains underexamined: forgone care. Forgone care refers to situations in which individuals who need healthcare delay, avoid or do not seek it at all. This gap between health need and healthcare utilisation is… Continue reading Forgone Care: The Missing Metric in India’s Health System
India is no longer battling only infectious diseases. A muted, more complex crisis is unfolding, one where millions are living not with a single illness, but with several chronic conditions at the same time. Diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory illnesses, and metabolic disorders are ascending sharply across the country, notably after the age of… Continue reading Multimorbidity in India: Why Chronic Care Needs Urgent Reform
Public Service Delivery in India: Are Systems Working for Citizens? India measures public service delivery by outputs: hospitals built, schemes launched, beneficiaries enrolled. But citizens judge the state by their daily experience, not outputs. Yet for citizens, the state is not endured through outputs; it is experienced through processes. The wait at a clinic, the… Continue reading A System That Works: Or One That Makes People Work?
On World Health Day 2026, a case for putting community engagement at the centre of India’s health system. We live in an era blessed by astounding scientific advances, yet their uptake remains uneven in public health systems. Their benefits remain inadequately tapped for advancing population health and treating individuals who fall sick. Evidence-based guidance fails… Continue reading From Coverage to Trust: Rethinking India’s Health System
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