India
See all IndiaAccess to high quality, affordable primary care remains a challenge in much of India. The result is a high burden of disease and high out of pocket expenditures. Recent federal and state government commitments signal increasing support for a stronger primary healthcare system.
ACCESS Health India supports these commitments by studying the healthcare programs and working with individual states to design and implement improvement in primary care.
Featured Projects
- Primary Care Pilot Program
Primary Care Pilot Program
ACCESS Health and the Indian School of Business are working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to design and to assist the development of a transformative primary care program.
Projects
- ACCESS Health Infant Care Improvement Project
ACCESS Health Infant Care Improvement Project
The ACCESS Health Infant Care Improvement Project analyzed factors that affect infant care in two Indian states, Bihar and Odisha (Orissa). ACCESS Health worked with the local governments to create a plan for primary care for maternal and infant care based on this work. Several districts in both states have declared an interest in implementing this plan to reduce mother and child mortality.
- ACCESS Health Primary Care Research Project
ACCESS Health Primary Care Research Project
The ACCESS Health Primary Care Research Project reviewed and summarized information on the state of primary care delivery in India and highlighted good practice initiatives. ACCESS Health uses this data to work with both public and private sectors to design effective primary healthcare systems.
- Center for Health Market Innovations
Center for Health Market Innovations
ACCESS Health is one of the organizations that creates content for the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Center is a digital platform that connects healthcare organizations and providers, researchers, and policymakers to learn about innovations that increase access to high quality, affordable healthcare. Most of our studies are of health programs in India, Bangladesh, and Brazil.
- Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
Center for Health Market Innovations Learning Exchange
The Learning Exchange provides funding to facilitate structured learning partnerships between or among organizations that are profiled by the Center for Health Market Innovations. The Learning Exchange will help programs improve business practices, adopt innovations, or scale up or replicate an aspect of their model to a new market.
- Joint Learning Fund
Joint Learning Fund
The Joint Learning Network established the Joint Learning Fund to support the ability of Network members to learn from each other on a range of topics, including expanded coverage, information technology, primary healthcare, provider payments, and quality improvement. Member countries use the Joint Learning Fund to support study tours, workshops, and exchange of personnel to learn from universal health coverage reform strategies that have been successful in other countries.
- Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage
The Joint Learning Network brings together low and middle income countries in Africa and Asia to share experiences, challenges, and insights drawn from their efforts to achieve universal health coverage.
- Joint Learning: Experiences from Knowledge Sharing Toward Universal Health Coverage
Joint Learning: Experiences from Knowledge Sharing Toward Universal Health Coverage
This book will share our experiences with the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, a program that brings together countries to share their experiences – their challenges and their successes – working toward universal health coverage. It is scheduled for completion by December 2014.
- Primary Care Pilot Program
Primary Care Pilot Program
ACCESS Health and the Indian School of Business are working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to design and to assist the development of a transformative primary care program.
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Featured Resources
- Case Study: FriendlyCare Clinic -- Philippines
- Transcript: Innovation and the Future of Healthcare in China
- Report: Integrating the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Program with Primary Healthcare: An Analysis of Information Technology Systems and Processes
- Report: Lessons from the Management and Experiences of the Joint Learning Fund for Universal Health Coverage: May 2011-May 2014
- Report: Nationwide Primary Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.
- Report: Primary Care Through a Public Private Partnership
- Report: Ross Clinics
- Report: UCLA Global Lab for Health Project: Implementation Completion Report
- Report: Universal Health Coverage in Kerala Through a Primary Care Pilot Project
- Report: Urban Primary Healthcare and Private Sector in India - A Brief Analysis of Kriti, Swasth India, and Viva Sehat
- Case Study: World Health Partners