What is meant by Common goods for health? How does it attribute to the strengthening of foundation of public health care systems? Also, discuss the significance of the concept in the light of healthcare schemes of Government of India. (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
KEY POINTS
Common Goods for Health (CGH) are population-based functions or interventions that require collective financing, either from the government or donors based on the following conditions:
1. Contribute to health and economic progress;
2. There is a clear economic rationale for interventions based on market failures, with focus on
· Public Goods (Non-Rival, Non-Exclusionary) or
· large social externalities.
Not all public or common goods are CGH and vice versa, but all CGH must generate large societal health benefits that cannot be financed through market forces.
Strengthening the health care
· The best defence against global pandemics lies in the public health infrastructure that deals with communicable disease, including disease monitoring systems, emergency response, and immunisation.
· Doctors, politicians, and victims see value in health care and attach inadequate value to the invisible public health work, through which fewer people get sick in the first place.
· It is in the nature of the governance process to creep away from public health towards health care.
· Improvements in public health will reduce the extent to which people get sick, thus giving reduced health care expenditures, and thus reducing the fiscal burden associated with government programmes which pay for health care.
Significance with respect to schemes of the Government
· Schemes like PM-AYUSH, ASHA, National Nutrition programme, National Health Mission etc are directly or indirectly devoted to robust health care systems.
· But the governance machinery is varying across states in providing better public service delivery. Ex: Tamil Nadu has better Infant Mortality rate when compared to other states like Bihar, Rajasthan due to better service delivery.
· Primary health care at the local level is often neglected due weak Panchayati raj institutions, which further weakens the efficiency of health care systems.
· So Common Goods for Health can be applied effectively by central government at all levels via strong cooperative federalism.
Madeshwaran 5 years
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Good attempt. Try to relate the concept with some of the government health care schemes. Keep Writing.
Chinna 5 years
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Shantanu tiwari 5 years
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Try to discuss the concept with respect to government health schemes. Keep Writing.
nalini 5 years
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Good answer. Try to stick to word limit. Keep Writing.
