Open AccessHealth systems preparedness for COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Sundararaman Thiagarajan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_507_20
Subject(s) - preparedness , pandemic , public health , economic growth , business , health care , scale (ratio) , indigenous , covid-19 , healthcare system , environmental health , medicine , political science , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , geography , nursing , economics , ecology , cartography , pathology , law , biology
Some nations in the world and some states in India have had more success in containing this pandemic. Recent efforts in strengthening the health sector have focused largely on reforms in modes of financing, but as the pandemic brings home to us, the main challenge in India remains the challenge of the organization of public services using a health systems understanding. A close to community comprehensive primary health care, quality assurance, and planned excess capacity in public health systems, a more robust disease surveillance systems that can integrate data on new outbreaks and the indigenous technological capacity to scale up innovation and manufacture of essential health commodities are some of our most important requirements for both epidemic preparedness and response.