write a note on private healthcare services in india
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private health care services include facilities in those hospitals which make their own more profit rather than the government ones
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The private sector is not new to Indian health services since it was a predominant mode
of service for the well off as well as the common people till the end of the colonial period.
Over the next couple of decades, especially during the late seventies and eighties, the
private sector has expanded and diversified. The acceptance of the Structural
Adjustment Programme during the nineties provided a boost and legitimacy to the
already dominant private sector in state policy. The growing assertion by the private
sector coincided with the emergence of international financiers entering the Indian
market in the insurance, technology and financial sectors among other areas.
Given the above developments there was a need to reassess the public health needs in
India, by both the State and the private sector. A vision for the future demanded that the
State and the private sector reassess the experience of the nineties in order to face
challenges in the future. There is no doubt that the State will have to take responsibility
for setting the agenda, prioritize health issues and for planning suitable interventions.
These cannot be limited to health services alone, but would have to address welfare
services as well. The vital issue is how the State can harness the private sector
creatively, while retaining its identity, and contributing to the challenge of building a
socially responsible health care system. In addition, the State also faces the challenge to
be able to make use of international initiatives on its terms, without allowing global
entrepreneurs to set the terms.
In order to formulate appropriate policies towards the private sector, the Ministry of
Health Family Welfare had initiated several studies to understand the nature, role, and
functioning of the private sector in health care services in India. One of the initiatives
involved undertaking a systematic literature review of the available studies on the private
health sector in India and develops suitable policy options towards this sector.
The review attempted to document, understand, analyze and offer options concerning
the private sector in some specific areas which included a) characteristics, heterogeneity
and distribution, b) incentives and disincentive mechanisms for the private sector c)
involvement of government doctors in private sector d) partnerships between public and
private sectors at primary, secondary and tertiary level e) experiences in regulatory
mechanisms for the private sector f) experiences in contracting out of clinical, non-
clinical and supportive services and subsidizing g) experiences of role of provider and
consumer information.
The three institutions collaborating in the study were Centre for Enquiry into Health and
Allied Themes (Mumbai), Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai) and Jawharlal Nehru
University (New Delhi). Each institution covered a specific geographic area CEHAT
(Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan) Indian Institute of Technology (Karnataka, Kerala,
and Tamil Nadu) and Jawharlal Nehru University (Delhi and Uttar Pradesh)
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