Primary care is the first point of entry for most patients into a health system. This makes primary care an important platform for preventive and promotive efforts, such as nutrition counseling, mothers groups, and outreach for school health. Primary care can also be an important coordination point to address social determinants of health, including clean…

Taking inspiration from existing health system frameworks, ACCESS Health created a market forces framework that offers a lens for responding to local market dynamics and taking a more strategic long term view of strengthening primary care. It includes a concrete four step process for applying the framework to India and other settings.

This piece originally appeared in The Huffington Post. In life, the simplest solutions are often the best. When it comes to healthcare, they’re also almost always the cheapest. It’s striking then that we so often choose complex, costly, and ineffective healthcare solutions when more straightforward fixes exist. This is part of why I founded ACCESS…

Allopathic medicine in India dates back to the 1600s when medical officers arrived in India with the British East India Company ship surgeons. After the reigns of the Indian Subcontinent or Erstwhile India were taken over by the Company in 1757, the first medical department was setup in Bengal presidency, present day West Bengal and…

Today, the government of Uttar Pradesh took a critical step toward strengthening primary healthcare services in the region, launching a call for proposals for a new public-private partnership that could revolutionize local healthcare service delivery. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in India, with some of the country’s poorest health indicators. Residents there face…

ACCESS Health International is pleased to announce that it will be working with the Government of Uttar Pradesh to launch a Primary Healthcare Network Pilot program. The Government of Uttar Pradesh has appointed the State Innovations in Family Planning Support Agency to serve as the nodal agency for this project. The State Innovations in Family…

Comments from Vrishali Shekhar and Anuradha Katyal of ACCESS Health International on Health and Nutrition India ranks second to last of one hundred thirty four countries in gender equality in health (World Economic Forum, 2010). This highlights the opportunity to improve gender sensitization toward framing health policies in India. From a gender perspective framework, the…

Safe care saving lives Project While the government has introduced social insurance and funded upgrades of public healthcare infrastructure, there has also been an overwhelming growth of private investment in the sector. The result – more families today have access to hospital based care than ever before. National, state and private programs have all achieved…

I traveled to the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang in late February. Shijiazhuang is nearly two hours southwest of Beijing. ACCESS Health Sweden and ACCESS Health China have partnered with several organizations in Sweden and China to conduct a feasibility study on health and eldercare. Our Swedish partner is the Swecare Foundation. The Swecare Foundation is…