India and its Health System

India focuses to strengthen its health systems; it is increasingly looking to provide comprehensive health care services to its fellow citizens with sense of directions. Indian health sector reforms aimed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness; equity and equality; and social justice and access to the services are an essential response to the health challenges and the growing expectations of its people. Meanwhile, the nature of the health problems is changing dramatically. Urbanization, industrialization, commercialization, globalization and other factors increase the burden of diseases and health care costs as well as loss of RET medicinal plants. Many systems seem to be drifting from one short-term priority to another, increasingly fragmented and without a strong sense of preparedness for what lies ahead. Fortunately, the current socio-political environments globally are favorable to renewal and strengthen the RET medicinal plants and its availability thru traditional medicines and its practices for health care. Global health is receiving unprecedented attention towards RET medicinal plants growth and their protection. There is growing interest in united action towards RET medicinal plants with the greater calls for comprehensive universal care and health care policies. By capitalizing on this momentum, India recognizes four interlocking sets of reforms that retorted to achieve universal access and social protection thru traditional medicine – AYUSH - so as to improve the equity and equality; re-organize the traditional medicine service delivery around people’s needs and expectations along with their beliefs; secure healthier communities through better lay care practices with balanced approaches; and remodel the availabilit...

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...or greater equity in health and environmental health, specially focusing on RET medicinal plants must be an effort undertaken by the whole of the society and the system;

[2] mediating multi-stakeholders involvement for creating ‘health – environmental complex’ for effective protection of RET medicinal plants and reduction of health costs’;

[3] re-orienting information systems for better monitoring and evaluate ‘health-environmental complex’ performance and drawing field based innovations into the design and committed individual to manage the direction and implementation;

[4] capacity building should not to be treated as a recipe, but it is an integrate part of ‘change management’ with focus on reform; and

[5] all set reforms must be adapted to vastly different national contexts while mobilizing a common set of drivers to advance equity and equality in health.