Research Data from Harvard Medical School Update Understanding of Managed Care (The <i> Lancet </i> Commission On a Citizen-centred Health System for India): Managed Care

2026 MAR 05 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in Managed Care. According to news reporting out of Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “India stands at a pivotal moment in its journey towards universal health coverage-a crucial component of the government’s Viksit Bharat vision to elevate it to the status of a developed country by 2047, 100 years since its formation as an independent nation. At this juncture, there is unprecedented political will for reform and sustained economic growth, creating a window of opportunity to advance transformative change and for India to leapfrog to a new health-care paradigm: a universal, citizen-centred, and technology-driven system that dissociates affluence from access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Harvard Medical School, “The Lancet Commission on a citizen-centred health system for India was established in December, 2020, to identify the reforms needed to realise this vision. Our analyses are rooted in the lived experiences, expectations, and preferences of the people of India and guided by the principle that they enjoy a universal, fundamental, and inalienable Right to Health, and that the government must be accountable for financing and operating the public sector and stewarding both the public and private sectors. To this end, the Commission engaged a diverse spectrum of expertise and drew systematically upon existing and new research to arrive at our recommendations. This report presents a key shift in the conventional narrative of the barriers to realising universal health coverage (UHC) in India: these are no longer driven by a lack of political will, underfunding, inadequate human resources and physical infrastructure, or low demand for health-care services. Instead, uneven quality of care, inefficiencies in spending, fragmented delivery, inadequate design and implementation of financial protection programmes, and poor governance emerge as key challenges. Our clarion call is for an integrated, citizen-centred health-care delivery system that is publicly financed and publicly provided as the primary vehicle for UHC, while shaping the private sector to leverage its strengths. Variations in State and district health systems highlight the importance of decentralised processes in health system design, implementation, and evolution.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Recognising this, we present our reforms as options for governments to choose from based on local realities, consultations with civil society and health-care providers, and refinement through continuing evaluation.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Lancet Commission On a Citizen-centred Health System for India. Lancet, 2026;407(10526):388-468. Lancet can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, Ste 800, 230 Park Ave, New York, NY 10169, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Lancet - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/lancet/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Vikram Patel, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Additional authors for this research include Anuska Kalita, Satchit Balsari, Kheya Melo Furtado, Shubhangi Bhadada, Tarun Khanna, Nachiket Mor, Sandra Albert, Hasna Ashraf, Indu Bhushan, Vijay Chandru, Raghu Dharmaraju, Mirai Chatterjee, Sarika Chaturvedi, Atul Gupta, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Gautam Menon, Arnab Mukherji, Poonam Muttreja, Thelma Narayan, Bhushan Patwardhan, Tejasvi Ravi, Sharad Sharma, Devi Shetty, Sudheer Kumar Shukla, S. Subramanian, Leila Varkey, Sandhya Venkateswaran and Siddhesh Zadey.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2825%2902169-5. 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.

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