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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Learning from others<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Amartya Sen<br>
</span></font><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Thomas</span></font><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> W Lamont
University Professor and Professor of
Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge,
 MA, USA</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">The Lancet, Volume 377, Issue 9761, 2011 <br>
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“…..Thailand
has made huge use of what they call the National Health Assembly, in which
there are open discussions on what problems the public faces in health care and
in related fields and also on how they can be removed. This has gone with the
progress made in Thailand
in introducing universal public health care, and it has been nicely
supplemented by feedback from the people, with considerable gain in efficiency
and reach. As a functioning democracy, India can learn from others on how
the public can be engaged in advancing the health of all. There is a huge role
for the media and for political leadership, of all parties, in advancing this
important national cause, in making the best use of the facilities provided by
democracy.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">As it happens, some of the real progress that has happened in
recent years in India
has come from public discussion—and agitation. This applies, for example,
to the delivery of cooked midday meals in schools, and selected interventions
in child development in preschool institutions. These new changes have had
positive effects, even though their use is uneven across the country, and has
to be expanded and improved. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">China</span></font></span><span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> does not yet have either of these
important instruments of basic health care, but they could be important for China too, since China—despite its high
average performance—does have identifiable gaps (the existence of which
has been pioneeringly studied by the China Development Research Foundation). China too may
have to learn from others to eliminate the resisting pockets of deprivation. India faces, of
course, a much larger task.<br>
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in Yi Jing's time, almost 1400 years ago………”</span></font></span></p>

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