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Public Health
India has made significant strides in improving the health status and increasing access to health care services in the last decades. Nonetheless, there is no doubt in accepting the fact that as compared to economic development, development of core social issues still takes a back seat.
Analysis of the health sector reveals that India faces concerns and challenges vis-à-vis health. Fragmented strategies and lack of resources have made the health system unaccountable and disconnected to public health goals. Poor management of resources and centralized decision-making, low budgets, irregular supplies, large-scale absenteeism, absence of performance-based monitoring and conflicting job roles are other concerns that shrouds the health sector. The public health system is overwhelmed by the coexistence of communicable and infectious diseases alongside an emerging epidemic of non-communicable diseases.
Public Health in India: Some Glimpses
- Nearly one-eighth of equivalent life years continue to be lost due to various diseases
- Nearly one-fourth of deaths occur in those less than 5 years though child mortality has shown a decline in recent years
- Infectious diseases continue to be a burden while chronic diseases have shown an increase – both in terms of prevalence as well as in terms of mortality
- Over 40 per cent of hospitalized Indians borrow heavily or sell assets to cover expenses
- Number of HIV infected people in India is 2.5 million (UNAIDS, 2007).
- 0.9 per cent of GDP is spent on health sector.
What KPMG can do
- Develop sustainable strategies on public health
- Budget analysis of funds allocated for health programmes
- Development of communication strategies on issues related to health
- Health Related Research
- Monitoring and Evaluation of programmes on health
- Develop community based models to make primary health care affordable and accessible
- Conceptualization and Implementation of HIV/AIDS workplace intervention program.
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