Divya Chaudhry
Divya is working as a Research Assistant at ICRIER since June 2014. She is involved with the research program on ‘Tackling chronic diseases in India’, which is a part of ICRIER’s Health Policy Initiative. Her key areas of research under the initiative have so far been prevention of chronic diseases, evaluation of health outcomes, analysis of public policy interventions, primary health systems, health financing, etc. Concurrently, Divya is associated with ICRIER’s World Bank-sponsored Jobs for Development project. In 2015, she coauthored a paper on ‘Human capital potential of India’s future workforce’ (ICRIER Working Paper 308) and is presently working on identifying challenges and assessing the potential of ‘Job creation in fragile regions of South Asia’. In 2014, she coauthored a book chapter on ‘Motivations and experiences of Indian students in Korea’.
Divya pursued a Master’s degree in Economics from Ambedkar University (batch of 2012-14), with a full-scholarship from the Government of NCT of Delhi. She feels strongly about issues concerning national and international development.
Supervisors: Dr Ali Mehdi
Phone: 9899008952
Divya pursued a Master’s degree in Economics from Ambedkar University (batch of 2012-14), with a full-scholarship from the Government of NCT of Delhi. She feels strongly about issues concerning national and international development.
Supervisors: Dr Ali Mehdi
Phone: 9899008952
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Primary health systems, however, continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need to make a health system transition and engage in prevention of chronic diseases – the major cause of adult mortality – together with their original focus on child mortality.
This policy brief analyzes some of the major challenges in terms of governance, manpower and financing that such a transition will be faced with, and develops a number of actionable policy recommendations. It does so based on extensive desk and field research in 4 Indian states – Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu – and 4 countries – Japan, Canada, United States, Sri Lanka – involving interactions with close to 200 stakeholders from policy, industry, international organizations, civil society and the academia.
In less than a decade, the burden of chronic diseases will overwhelm health systems in India – 89 percent of mortality will happen at 30+ year level by 2025-2030. A reorientation of national and state health policy, systems and resources is urgently required. The Central government should accept its moral responsibility, strengthen its regulatory capacity, and provide technical together with financial support to state / UT governments. The latter, on their part, would have to embrace their legal responsibility of being the primary agents for survival and health of their populations. Their role is critical because prevention of chronic diseases requires a sustained, long-term engagement.
Primary health systems, however, continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need to make a health system transition and engage in prevention of chronic diseases – the major cause of adult mortality – together with their original focus on child mortality.
This policy brief analyzes some of the major challenges in terms of governance, manpower and financing that such a transition will be faced with, and develops a number of actionable policy recommendations. It does so based on extensive desk and field research in 4 Indian states – Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu – and 4 countries – Japan, Canada, United States, Sri Lanka – involving interactions with close to 200 stakeholders from policy, industry, international organizations, civil society and the academia.
In less than a decade, the burden of chronic diseases will overwhelm health systems in India – 89 percent of mortality will happen at 30+ year level by 2025-2030. A reorientation of national and state health policy, systems and resources is urgently required. The Central government should accept its moral responsibility, strengthen its regulatory capacity, and provide technical together with financial support to state / UT governments. The latter, on their part, would have to embrace their legal responsibility of being the primary agents for survival and health of their populations. Their role is critical because prevention of chronic diseases requires a sustained, long-term engagement.