Rethinking the Indian Health System for the Post-COVID-19 World

Amrita Agarwal

Chapter 3 in Flattening the Curve:COVID-19 & Grand Challenges for Global Health, Innovation, and Economy, 2023, pp 63-86 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The pre-pandemic Indian health system had made some progress in providing healthcare, but there were inherent weaknesses in addressing public goods and institutional capacity. The pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of the system, which led to limited options for all actors in responding to the pandemic. A study of the sources of difficulty when faced with the pandemic offers the following four lessons in health policy strategy in India: (1) strengthening policy community and institutions, (2) harnessing the energy of private markets, (3) establishing measurement systems to create feedback loops, and (4) not regressing back to the pre-pandemic status quo.

Keywords: COVID-19; Pandemic; Health Economics; Innovation; Economic Development; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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