{"id":220708,"date":"2023-01-02T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=220708"},"modified":"2023-01-02T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:18:13","slug":"equity-in-healthcare-aim-for-more-than-just-more-aiims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/equity-in-healthcare-aim-for-more-than-just-more-aiims\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity in healthcare: Aim For More Than Just More AIIMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cAim For More Than Just More AIIMS\u201d<\/strong> published in The Times of India <\/b>on\u00a02nd January 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About achieving equity in healthcare.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>:\u00a0India’s primary level can take care of almost 70-75% of the population’s healthcare needs. About 20-25% is addressed at the secondary level. Around 5-10% need tertiary-level care.<\/p>\n

More AIIMS-like institutions are required to promote equity in India’s healthcare environment.<\/p>\n

What is equity in healthcare means?<\/h5>\n

In healthcare, equity means two things a)<\/strong> People with the same health needs get the same care (horizontal equity) and b)<\/strong> People with an advantage take on a greater share of the responsibility for paying for health services (vertical equity).<\/p>\n

A pursuit of excellence or equity is conditioned by one\u2019s background and training. For example, as a general principle, clinicians are trained to support excellence and public health people advocate equity.<\/p>\n

Excellence is a measure of the quality of care and equity is a measure of access to care. Both are important. For instance, equity has no meaning if excellence is not a part of it and, excellence is wasted if restricted to a few.\u00a0So, neither equity nor excellence is achieved without effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: [Kurukshetra December Summary] e-Governance in Healthcare Services Delivery \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
How India can achieve equity in healthcare?<\/h5>\n

a)<\/strong> India needs to stop seeing excellence as an individual choice<\/strong> and pursuit, but rather as a health system goal. For this to happen, a sharing of a vision of excellence by all levels of leadership is needed.<\/p>\n

b)<\/strong> India needs to change the work ethos at all levels to reinforce quality and rigour<\/strong> and ensure commensurate investment in infrastructure and human resources.<\/p>\n

c)<\/strong> India needs newer AIIMS-like institutions<\/strong> to achieve the \u2018excellence\u2019 of AIIMS New Delhi will need time and effort.<\/p>\n

d)<\/strong> Promoting equity requires a reconceptualisation of the health system<\/strong> itself, especially healthcare financing so that barriers to access are removed.<\/p>\n

e)<\/strong> India needs smaller health and wellness centres near villages<\/strong> with appropriate size, each catering to the population subset that needs primary, secondary or tertiary care.<\/p>\n

Overall, India should ensure providing equity in healthcare is a population-level outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cAim For More Than Just More AIIMS\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a02nd January 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health. Relevance: About achieving equity in healthcare. News:\u00a0India’s primary level can take care of almost 70-75% of… Continue reading Equity in healthcare: Aim For More Than Just More AIIMS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-220708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}