Medical Innovation and Disease Burden: Conflicting Priorities and the Social Divide in India

Sobin George

doi:10.1017/9781108832304

Striking the right balance between public health priorities and health innovation is a critical policy challenge for India given their mutually conflicting nature and interests. India has a huge burden of diseases implicated by a gamut of health problems including the uneven distribution of demographic and epidemiological transition, threat of new infectious disease pandemic like COVID 19, increasing privatisation of healthcare, low affordability to life saving medicines and most importantly the escalating healthcare expenditure coupled with poor financial risk protection. The central question that the book addresses is whether health innovation in India is sensitive to the public health needs and priorities. It unearths the overriding issues related to responsiveness and equity in India's health innovation. The book highlights the need for a responsible innovation framework for India that balances the priorities of public health and the industry goals.

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Medical Innovation and Disease Burden

Conflicting Priorities and the Social Divide in India

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Tables
pp vii-x

List of Figures
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

List of Abbreviations
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-17

1 - Medical Innovation and Its Institutional Co-production in India
pp 18-56

2 - The Disease Focus of Health Research and Development
pp 57-101

3 - Drug Development and Responsiveness to Disease Burden
pp 102-135

4 - Affordability and the Social Divide
pp 136-174

5 - The Puzzle of Responsive and Responsible Medical Innovation
pp 175-188

References
pp 189-204

Index
pp 205-210

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