India's Public Health: The Way Forward

Maria Das Gupta

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Abstract: Focusing on clinical services while neglecting services that reduce exposure to disease is like mopping up the floor continuously while leaving the tap running (paraphrased from Garrett 2001) In 1871, Japan’s Meiji government set out to learn how to become a global power. They sent a large study tour to the industrialised world, to examine the best models for re-designing Japan’s institutions and infrastructure towards this end. This included designing a public health system to reduce exposure to communicable diseases, which constitutes an essential part of a country’s development infrastructure. As Nagayo Sensei, a health specialist on the Japanese 1871 study tour put it: “When I arrived in Berlin, I heard the words 'sanitary' and 'health' everywhere…I eventually came to understand that these words referred to an entire administrative system that was organised to protect the public's health .…. and to improve the nation's welfare.”

Date: 2024-05-01
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