The onset of the covid-19 pandemic, brought home to the world in general and India in particular the strategic importance of health in a nation’s security fabric.
In India’s case, beyond lip service, health rarely received priority, especially with respect to effective policy implementation—the shortage of oxygen supplies during the pandemic was a grim reminder of India’s health deficit.New data sets released by the National Health Accounts (NHA), suggest that India may be at a tipping point with respect to its healthnomics.
To unpack the findings StratNews Global spoke to Indranil Mukhopadhyay, professor and health economist at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.
