Associate Professor, Department of Management Studies, School of Law, Governance, Public Policy & Management Central University of Haryana, Jant Pali (Mahendergarh)
Online published on 27 June, 2014.
Development of any country depends upon the growth in her social indicators including health, education and poverty alleviation. In India where only 1.4 percent of GDP is spent on health sector, health sector becomes more crucial in present times when at global level we are lagging behind in terms of Human Development Index (HDI). The growth is of no importance if the development in terms of health is ignored. There is dearth of studies on health care in India. In policy priorities also the health sector has been neglected so far. With the burgeoning investment in private health care industry, the escalating health cost, increasing scope of health tourism, medical insurance, conversion of various therapies and rural health are some of the issues to be considered in the context of inclusive development. The paper is an attempt to explore the vast potential and emerging verticalsin health planning such as micro credit, sanitation, nutrition, disease control, promotion of alternative treatment therapies, e-health services, safe drinking water, education, medical education and ethics, local bodies involvement in creation and maintenance of health infrastructure, women and child development, CSR, nutrition, R & D for producing low price generic medicines and poverty alleviation issues which are holistic and integrated as far as the policy making of health to achieve the target of inclusive development is concerned in the years to come.
Health sector, inclusive growth, inclusive development, HDI
