Findings from Maulana Azad Medical College Provide New Insights into Health Insurance (Universal health coverage in India: Newer innovations and the…

Findings from Maulana Azad Medical College Provide New Insights into Health Insurance (Universal health coverage in India: Newer innovations and the role of public health)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Research findings on Health Insurance are discussed in a new report. According to news originating from New Delhi, India, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, "The realization of Universal Health Coverage requires adequate healthcare financing and human resources to provide financial protection to the economically disadvantaged population by covering their medicine, diagnostics, and service costs. Conventionally, inadequate public healthcare financing and the lack of skilled human resources are considered as the major barriers towards achieving UHC in India."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Maulana Azad Medical College, "To strengthen the Indian healthcare system, there has been significant increase budgetary allocation towards healthcare, a national health protection scheme targeting low-income households, upgrading of primary health-care and expansion of the health work-force. Nevertheless, an evolving paradigm for improving holistic health, sanitation, nutrition, gender equity, drug accessibility and affordability, innovative initiatives in national health programs for reduction of maternal deaths, tuberculosis and HIV burden and the utilization of information technology in healthcare provision of the underserved and the marginalized is gaining rapid acceleration."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "These represent a genuine innovation towards fulfillment of UHC goals for India."

For more information on this research see: Universal health coverage in India: Newer innovations and the role of public health. Indian Journal of Public Health, 2018;62(3):167-170 (see also Health Insurance).

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from S. Garg, Director Professor and Head, Dept. of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.4103/ijph.IJPH_221_18. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Asia, New Delhi, Public Health, Health Insurance, Health and Medicine, Risk and Prevention.

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