Relevance of health care system: Indian perspective

Importance of Economic Evaluation in Health Care: An Indian Perspective.

Health economic studies provide information to decision makers for efficient use of available resources for maximizing health benefits. Economic evaluation is one part of health economics, and it is a tool for comparing costs and consequences of different interventions. Health technology assessment is a technique for economic evaluation that is well adapted by developed countries. The tradition...

Health Care Reform—An Integrated Health Care Delivery System Perspective

Why the need for such a radical shift? Because in the past decade, employers’ health care costs have increased more than four times the inflation rate. The average U.S. household spends $15,300 a year for a family of four on health care. And, as a nation, we spend nearly 18 percent of the gross domestic product on health care. If we stay this course, the percentage of health care spending will ...

Palliative Care - An Indian Perspective

Palliative care in India is a relatively new concept; developed over the past 30 years, compared to 50 years in the developed nations. The Government of India initiated a National Cancer Control Programme to make pain relief one of the basic services to be provided at the primary health care level. Kerala is often cited as a ‘beacon of hope’contributing to two-thirds of India’s Palliative care ...

Mental health: an Indian perspective

In the Indian scenario, research in mental health is notably deficient, but available clinical and epidemiological data suggest a significant co-morbidity between mental diseases and cardiovascular diseases. Mental health problems do not have the precision of other biological sciences due to the complex phenotypes. In India the effects of culture and the transition in symptomatology of psychiat...

In support of Canada's health care system: an oncologist's perspective.