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Novel Health Approaches Emerging from the Covid-19 Crisis
Novel public health experiments from Maharashtra in the pandemic times, involving co-production of healthcare, interventionist regulation of private hospital rates and popular initiatives to ensure social accountability of private hospitals, demonstrate significant potentials to advance people-centred health system changes.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated and highlighted the deep contradictions in our health systems, like never before. This was especially true in the case of Maharashtra—the Indian state that was worst-affected by COVID-19 in terms of the number of cases and deaths. Despite massive distress caused to ordinary people due to health system inadequacies, this crisis also generated certain novel public responses. As we move into a post-COVID-19 situation, drawing upon experiences from Maharashtra, we will attempt to identify some approaches that demonstrate significant potentials to advance people-centred health system changes in the coming period.
Co-production of Healthcare
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