Talk:Health in India/Archive 1

Healthcare in urban India
The current contents of this section seem off-the-topic as they talk about the perceptions of certain people in about the health care and health care providers. It does not provide any information regrading the health care facilities available in cities vis-a-vis rural areas, the cost of health care in urban areas, major providers of urban health care, health problems due to urban congestion, or other such relevant and expected information. It is suggested that this section be rewritten with more relevant content.

Geeteshgadkari (talk) 07:10, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

error in spending per person per year
The spending per person per year is given as Rs 32000. It should be Rs 320.00 or Rs 320 Krishnaswamy (talk) 14:47, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Confusing and unclear
The article in its current state is confusing, and often strays from the topic (looks like the topic itself is not clearly identified). --Pradeep (talk) 20:49, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Payment
Is public health care a free entitlement for everyone as in western Europe, are people expected to pay for all of their health care, or are there government programs with eligibility restrictions (e.g. low income) as in the U.S.? -- Beland (talk) 07:27, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * This question is now answered by the article. -- Beland (talk) 18:24, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Copyright violation
Almost everything I checked is straight copy paste from .orgs, etc. Definitely not mirrors. Definitely not reverse copyvio. Multiples sites. In almost 3 years, this is the most egregious case I have seen. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:13, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

What I (and hopefully others) can do, is boldly remove the notice leaving only the first sentence. Then, carefully restore the old content based on the approach of "what's sourced, but not a vio". Thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:55, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Restoring the article
This is the last version before blanking. Please, if you can, check a section from that version. If it's well sourced, and is not a copyright violation, please restore it to the article. Remember, the reason the article was blanked is because there were multiple case of copy and paste from sources. Please ensure that verbatim text is not restored, but is instead reworded. However, the following may apply to some content from the aforementioned version: loc In those cases, copy and paste may be allowed. Watchers: please correct me if I'm wrong here.

Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:33, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

I've gone through lots and lots of the old text, and haven't found much. It really seems that the vast majority is copy pasted. I'm done here. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:51, 28 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking care of that. :) It looked pretty bad. I do want to let you know, though, that you have access to the content in this version, which is sadly out of date (1995) but public domain. Some of it may be useful for historical purposes. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:13, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks Moonriddengirl. I'll take a look. Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:17, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Primary Health Care
We should add this topic in the article. Padmaja  talk  14:09, 7 March 2012 (UTC) 19:22, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I second it. In fact the health infrastructre present in India should also be mentioned. Like secondary and tertiary healthcare. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 14:30, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Merge of Health Issue In Rural India
I merged a few lines from Health Issue In Rural India here.

--Karl.brown (talk) 22:08, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

I think that these can be two different topics. Anyways. I would like to know what others think about this. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 14:34, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Adding info on administration of health care in India
Re-sturcturing and adding information on govt bodies controlling health care in India. Shrikanthv (talk) 06:50, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

NRHM
National Rural Health Mission has done a good job I heard, though not what was expected. Point of NRHM is very important point in this article in my opinion. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 14:29, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Mention of Alma Atta conference
This is necessory as India was present for this conference and we have decided many goals in this conference. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 14:35, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

National disease control programmes
National disease control programmes (like Malaria, TB, Blindness and so on) needs to be included in this article. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 14:36, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Infant Mortality Rate
Lack of vaccination is not the only reason for IMR. But after reading the article one feels so. Hence this section needs to re written. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 14:41, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

One of the most important source document for this article from Lancet
Dear Friends, This is one of the most important source for this article in my opinion. Editors who are interested in contributing towards this article can take help of this document. This is a report published in 2011 in the lancet. The lancet is the second highest impact factor medical journal in the world. Hence this reference is highly authentic and very meticulously prepared! I hope this will be helpful. Thanks Abhijeet Safai (talk) 15:07, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Expansion of female health issues
The current discussion of female health issues lacks sufficient detail and could use further explanation. A change in the current title from "Female health issues" to "Women's health in India" would also help to broaden the discussion on the unique aspects that should be covered under the subtopic. As part of a classroom assignment, I propose additional discussion on nutritional, cardiovascular, and reproductive health. Furthermore, the expanded discussion would include statistics on current disparities and give reason for differences in healthcare outcomes for men and women. Are there any other forms of healthcare outcomes that should be included in the expanded discussion? Should subtopics of reproductive health (sexual health, abortions, maternal health and breast health) be given individual sub-sections or grouped together under the umbrella term of sexual health?Jasdeepsgill (talk) 05:52, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Female is broader than women, as women technically excludes girls. Also no need for India, as the article is about India. I think expanding the topic is a good idea however.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 14:02, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Page full of opinions and biased towards private sector
The languages of the page, citation of opinions and selective citation of references and usually not from valid sources has made the entire page biased. It seems to be a propaganda for private health sector and talks about perceptions etc an is confusing and unclear. I have corrected a few but this page needs massive edits. It gives no information about healthcare delivery system or health policy either. Downgraded its quality rating to stub. Drsoumyadeepb (talk) 07:31, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Lancet review
10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00955-1 - might be helpful. JFW &#124; T@lk  12:26, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

spelling
twelfth is right or twelth

Suggestions for Improvement
I am a student at Rice University, working on contributing to Wikipedia through a Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities class. While improvements have been made to this article, there are still substantial areas that require further improvement. First of all, it would be beneficial to incorporate more sources that extend beyond mere data presentation and describe some of the societal effects of health care issues in India. In addition, the introduction to the topic can be expanded to provide a more substantial framework for the following sections. Some of the data referenced is a bit outdated and would benefit from more current measures. Finally, while Health in India is a broad topic and this article serves as a general overview, an idea for further increasing the depth of information in this article would be to incorporate regional differences in health issues, with distinct regional sub-sections within the various issues. Sravi12 (talk) 02:31, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

I am planning to work on the suggestions I have outlined in my previous comment. The references I plan to use and additional details can be found on my user page. Sravi12 (talk) 00:13, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Mental Health in India
Hello, someone with knowledge of psychiatry in India, introduction of western medicine to India, treatment using unnani, treatment using Ayurveda and other types of mental health treatment needs to add it in. It is essential to know the estimates of people having mental illness in India too. It is a humongous country and lacking proper mental care and this needs to be brought out to the public. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C9:8000:9AF:FDFD:CE94:EC5B:E5ED (talk) 01:42, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

To prevent rural death's
In INDIA there were 5.5 doctors per 10,000 patients. And many of patients belong to rural area. As we know that most of the diseases come to existence from rural area, due to lack of proper healthcare facilities like proper drinking water, sanitation, hygiene etc. To avoid death of many people we can do one thing that is to educate them about these things and learn them how to live a healthy life. As we already know that most of the hospitals are in urban area and they are usually expensive and everyone cannot afford them. Being the citizen of INDIA as a doctor we can do one thing to reduce the death rate of our country is that at least we can provide FREE facilities to rural people only for 1 month per year. I am sure that it doesn't affect the revenue of the hospitals. It serve ass a boon to large number of people present there in rural areas. As per our government concern they should pass a ACT regarding this to convince private hospitals to provide free facilities to them just for 1 month per year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.155.210.232 (talk)

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