From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br>




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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Occasional Paper<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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</span></font><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Universal Health Care in <u></u><u></u>India<u></u><u></u>: Making
it public, making it a reality <u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

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Amit Sengupta<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Municipal Services
Project MSP, 2013 <u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">This project is funded by the
Canadian government through the International Development Research Centre
(IDRC).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Available online at: <a href="http://bit.ly/10jNLfF" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">http://bit.ly/10jNLfF</span></font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“…….India’s
latest strategy for universal health coverage (UHC) attracted considerable
attention, and criticism. At the heart of the debate is the proposal that UHC
could be best achieved through greater participation of the already dominant
private sector, and by scaling up health insurance schemes.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">This paper argues for a
fundamentally different vision of UHC policy, premised on creating an
integrated and comprehensive public health system that prioritizes
people’s needs, and on reversing the drift toward increasingly private
healthcare delivery. It examines key facets of India’s health care
sector, analyzes the reasons underlying its inability to meet UHC goals at
present, and proposes public solutions to fill health delivery gaps in a more
efficient, transparent, equitable and sustainable way……”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">*This paper is an abridged
and adapted version of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan booklet <i><span style="font-style:italic">Universalising Health Care for All<u></u><u></u></span></i></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">“…..The
Municipal Services Project (MSP) is a research project that explores
alternatives to the privatization and commercialization of service provision in
electricity, health, water and sanitation in Africa, Asia and <u></u>Latin
 America<u></u>….”<br>
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