Revisiting the efficacy of policies in the Indian primary healthcare sector: Interventions and approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Title
- Revisiting the efficacy of policies in the Indian primary healthcare sector: Interventions and approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Creator
- Rai R.; Singh P.
- Description
- The COVID-19 pandemic has wracked even the most modern healthcare systems worldwide and has influenced Indias healthcare sector and vastly affected the governments and corporate stakeholders healthcare reform plans; hence, this chapter is intended to unfold the paradigm shift in Indias primary healthcare industry due to the pandemic in the last one and half years. This chapter described Indias experience with the coronavirus during the first and second waves and tried examining the public health difficulties in the COVID era. It provides a timeline of significant events of the pandemics growth in India and worldwide and how India responded to the situations through their economic and healthcare policies. We also go through some of the pandemics impacts and Indias recovery approach and strategies for its revival. All possibly available secondary data like Scopus, Web of Science, Medline/PubMed, and Google Scholar search engines, newspapers, government websites, etc., were excavated to meet this purpose; secondary sources were used to analyze the data. This chapter also examined the effect of COVID-19 on healthcare workers in India. This chapter critically examined the primary healthcares role during this pandemic and the governments policies and processes to deal with COVID-19 and any other unforeseen situations which the country may encounter in the future. 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- Source
- Lessons from COVID-19: Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology, pp. 139-169.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Subject
- COVID-19; Government policies; Healthcare workers; Primary healthcare; Public health
- Coverage
- Rai R., School of Business and Management, CHRIST University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Singh P., School of Management and Commerce, Poornima University, Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 978-032399878-9; 978-032399944-1
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Rai R.; Singh P., “Revisiting the efficacy of policies in the Indian primary healthcare sector: Interventions and approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18646.