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Framework of Indian Healthcare System and its Challenges: An Insight

Framework of Indian Healthcare System and its Challenges: An Insight

Prashant Mehta
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781522506409|ISBN10: 1522506403|EISBN13: 9781522506416
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0640-9.ch011
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Mehta, Prashant. "Framework of Indian Healthcare System and its Challenges: An Insight." Healthcare Community Synergism between Patients, Practitioners, and Researchers, edited by Valerie C. Bryan and Jennifer Lynne Bird, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 247-271. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0640-9.ch011

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Mehta, P. (2017). Framework of Indian Healthcare System and its Challenges: An Insight. In V. Bryan & J. Bird (Eds.), Healthcare Community Synergism between Patients, Practitioners, and Researchers (pp. 247-271). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0640-9.ch011

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Mehta, Prashant. "Framework of Indian Healthcare System and its Challenges: An Insight." In Healthcare Community Synergism between Patients, Practitioners, and Researchers, edited by Valerie C. Bryan and Jennifer Lynne Bird, 247-271. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0640-9.ch011

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Abstract

India, one of the oldest civilizations and second most populous country is ethnically, linguistically, geographically, religious, and demographically diverse is poorly ranked due to complex public healthcare system, which suffers from insufficient funding, poor management. Poor health intertwined with poverty, affordability, accessibility, burden of infectious and non-communicable affecting lives of most Indians. Healthcare ecosystems are complex and still evolving, investments in service delivery system, infrastructure, and technology, are still being experimented and explored. India's booming population; increasing purchasing power; rising awareness of personal health and hygiene; and significant growth in infectious, chronic degenerative, and lifestyle diseases are driving the growing market. In this chapter we will explore accessible and affordable healthcare system, state of public healthcare, healthcare reforms, governance (Constitutional Provisions, Law, and Policy framework) in healthcare delivery, and Opportunity offered by market drivers.

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