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Articles and analysis on healthcare policy at ISPP, covering health systems, access, financing, and solutions shaping India’s public health landscape.
Air pollution in India is frequently viewed through an environmental or meteorological lens. It is often characterized by smog-filled winter skylines and hazardous Air Quality Index (AQI) readings. However, this perspective risks obscuring the most critical consequence: it’s devastating impact on human health. To effectively address this crisis, it must be reframed as a leading… Continue reading Breathing Risk: A Health-Centred Approach to India’s Air Pollution Crisis
Universalising access to and attainment of the highest levels of health standards has been a long-cherished goal. This “right to health” (RtH) was defined in the constitution of the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. It was further reinforced by Article 12 of the… Continue reading From UHC to UHA: Re-imagining the Right to Health
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?
In India, the labor market in the healthcare sector runs in acute supply shortage. The doctor-patient ratio is 1:1248 and there are only 1.5 nurses available per thousand patients. Public health capacity is inadequate and mostly asymmetrically distributed across states. While there are 38.3 government hospitals for a million people in Kerala, there are only… Continue reading Tackling COVID-19: The Need for Effective Capacity Utilisation of Health Professionals
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