Draft National Health Policy 2015: getting behind the rhetoric

A Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Humanities. Published since 1993 by Forum for Medical Ethics Society.
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1.	Title	Title of document	Draft National Health Policy 2015: getting behind the rhetoric

2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Amit Sengupta; Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, D-158, Lower Ground floor, Saket, New Delhi 110 017,; IN

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4.	Description	Abstract	The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently unveiled a draft "National Health Policy (NHP)", which was available for public comments till March 10, 2015. Arguably the exercise of crafting a national policy on health is an important and necessary step towards universalising access to healthcare. However, past experience would make us somewhat cynical while analysing the process and its outcome. The 2015 policy is to replace the 2002 Health Policy, which, in turn, was preceded by the first NHP of independent India, declared in 1983. The fact that it took successive governments 36 years following Independence to develop a national policy on health, in itself speaks of their degree of seriousness, as does the fact that the policy has been revised only once in the intervening 32 years.

5.	Publisher	Organizing agency, location	Forum for Medical Ethics Society

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7.	Date	(YYYY-MM-DD)	2016-11-30

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10.	Identifier	Uniform Resource Identifier	https://ijme.in/articles/draft-national-health-policy-2015-getting-behind-the-rhetoric/

11.	Source	Title; vol., no. (year)	Indian Journal of Medical Ethics;: The patient at the centre

12.	Language	English=en	en

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