Open AccessPattern of health promises for Indian democracy: A qualitative review of political manifestos
Author(s) -
Dinesh Kumar,
Raman Kumar,
Ramesh Chand Chauhan,
Vishav Chander,
Sunil Kumar Raina
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_308_17
Subject(s) - medicine , politics , democracy , law , political science
India is a multiparty parliamentary democracy and second most populous country in the world. In spite of pressing needs of the population, healthcare is still not considered a driving electoral mobilizer as compared to the older democracies such as the UK and USA. Only three National Health Policies (1983, 2002 and 2017) have been promulgated by the respective governments during the past 70 years of India's independence. National policies are often preceded by commitment of political parties documented in the manifestos. Type and nature of promises in the manifesto of National Political Parties (NPPs) are reflective of vision and intentions of parties. The present study was done to qualitatively analyze the pattern of expressed intensions in terms of health promises made for 16 th Lok Sabha (people house) elections of India in the year 2014 by its NPPs.