The Fragmented Social Protection System in India: Five Key Rights but Two Missing

Santosh Mehrotra, Neha Kumra and Ankita Gandhi

Chapter 11 in Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies, 2017, pp 297-319 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract India is one the world’s fastest-growing economies, but it struggles with high levels of poverty, malnutrition, and infant and maternal mortality rates. While the country has made strides in providing for a rights-based approach towards food, work and education, with much visible impacts on their developmental outcomes, two key fundamental rights—social insurance and health—have not received adequate policy attention. This chapter discusses the role of civil society mobilization and political support in ensuring entitlements with respect to work (albeit in rural areas), education and food and argues for a similar approach for ensuring universal health coverage, welcoming the Draft National Health Policy 2015, which advocates for health as a fundamental right. The chapter suggests immediate policy interventions, including the very critical aspect of sanitation, to address key health sector issues, particularly in India’s rural areas.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Universal Health Coverage; Maternal Mortality Ratio; National Family Health Survey; National Rural Health Mission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-1-137-53377-7_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137533777

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53377-7_11

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Social Policy in a Development Context from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().