CHAPTER 16

Health Reporting

Aarti Dhar

CHAPTER INSIGHTS

This chapter broadly outlines the understanding of health-related issues in India. This is followed by an overview on the components and functioning of the health system in the country such as public and private healthcare facilities, network of laboratories and the equation between the public and private healthcare system. The issues and challenges faced by the health sector are highlighted as the successes such as polio eradication. Also, it is critical to study healthcare situation because the way we live changed during coronavirus pandemic outbreak. There is a component of the health programmes and how from a low priority area with low budgetary provisions, health sector has now ...

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