Challenges and Potential Solutions to Healthcare Reform in India The Republic of India is the second most populated country in the world with over 1.2 billion people and one of the world’s fastest growing economies. However, the country continues to face many challenges in development such as poverty, corruption, inadequate healthcare and education, and border disputes. When evaluating how to address these challenges particularly healthcare, one must consider several factors relevant to confronting any one of these issues. To make any intervention or reform successful would require working with institutions already in place for implementation. Addressing public health issues would involve planning and coordination with institutions
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It is possible that because the general population has lost all trust in the availability of these services that even when knowing the facilities are now more likely to be open, people still didn’t trust to use them. Because there were no users, nurses may have felt justified in tampering the stamping machines and not coming to work thus creating a cycle of mistrust. It could be that there are greater socio-economic constraints on the workers that would justify poor attendance in order to take care of other personal matters. It may also be possible that lack of enforcement would still incentivize workers to not comply. A general acceptance that administration is not headstrong when enforcing general rules or guidelines would not change worker’s disregard of authority under new set of standards. This experiment would benefit from a conducting a survey to assess the needs and reasons for workers …show more content…
Rather than pumping money into a system that fails to deliver, it would be more practical to redirect funds toward areas that the people already trust and rely on to meet their medical needs. In India, there is a low usage of government health facilities and most households prefer seeking private health providers even if they are largely unregulated and/or unqualified. Mechanisms could be put in place to standardize health facilities, train unqualified health professionals, and make health care sought in private facilities and traditional healers more affordable and
It is possible that because the general population has lost all trust in the availability of these services that even when knowing the facilities are now more likely to be open, people still didn’t trust to use them. Because there were no users, nurses may have felt justified in tampering the stamping machines and not coming to work thus creating a cycle of mistrust. It could be that there are greater socio-economic constraints on the workers that would justify poor attendance in order to take care of other personal matters. It may also be possible that lack of enforcement would still incentivize workers to not comply. A general acceptance that administration is not headstrong when enforcing general rules or guidelines would not change worker’s disregard of authority under new set of standards. This experiment would benefit from a conducting a survey to assess the needs and reasons for workers …show more content…
Rather than pumping money into a system that fails to deliver, it would be more practical to redirect funds toward areas that the people already trust and rely on to meet their medical needs. In India, there is a low usage of government health facilities and most households prefer seeking private health providers even if they are largely unregulated and/or unqualified. Mechanisms could be put in place to standardize health facilities, train unqualified health professionals, and make health care sought in private facilities and traditional healers more affordable and