Towards a Healthy Future? : Indian and Global Experiences

Contents:  Foreword. Introduction. 1. Health and economy in India/Anindya Mishra. 2. The health status of Indians: a perspective/Laveesh Bhandari. 3. The health scenario in India: a cross-state analysis/Debashis Chakraborty and Pavel Chakraborty. 4. Private health care and the distribution of public health subsidies in India/Ajay Mahal. 5. Medical healthcare and private health insurance: an Indian perspective/Saleema Razvi. 6. IPRs under the WTO-examining the public health concerns/Amir Ullah Khan. 7. Ensuring a healthy future/Jayaprakash Narayan. 8. Free trade for better health/Philip Stevens. 9. Affluence, technology, and the state of humanity/Indur M. Goklany. 10. Diseases of poverty and the 10/90 gap/Philip Stevens. 11. Counterfeit medicines in LDCs: problems and solutions/Julian Morris and Philip Stevens.