IDFC’s annual publication, the India Infrastructure Report 2013|14: The Road to Universal Health Coverage was released by Dr Rajiv Lall, Executive Chairman, IDFC in New Delhi.
This Report aims to provide a forum for free, frank and open exchange of views necessary to arrive at innovative and workable solutions across various infrastructure sectors that would find acceptance among various stakeholders. Twelfth in the series, since 2001, the India Infrastructure Report 2013-14 brings together a range of insightful perceptions of academics, researchers and practitioners committed to improving healthcare practices.
India Infrastructure Report 2013|14 looks at the challenges for ensuring availability, accessibility, affordability and quality of comprehensive healthcare to all, and explores strategies to overcome the impediments along the road to UHC.
In this process, it also discusses whether initiatives taken to reduce the burden of people’s health expenditure has yielded desirable results, how to leverage the strengths of the private sector in healthcare delivery, role played by the non-state entities in rural healthcare, imperatives of engaging with the community and the high impact of preventive care at low cost. The report draws the readers’ attention to some of the emerging issues in the health sector such as rising burden of non-communicable diseases and mental health, human resource crisis in health sector and health concerns of informal sector workers, and steps required to attend to them within the UHC framework.
EH News Bureau
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