Prof T Sundararaman, Dean, School of Health System Studies, TISS, speak about healthcare trends in 2018 and how these developments will impact the overall Indian healthcare scenario, in a conversation with Raelene Kambli.
What are the new trends that you anticipate for the healthcare sector this year? And what changes will these trends bring in?
The most hopeful trend that we see in the healthcare sector is the proposed development of the health and wellness centres. These centres are giving huge impetus to comprehensive primary healthcare in the recent times which wasn’t there earlier. It was mentioned in the budget speech, but it did not get picked up in the subsequent dialogue. This trend can be a big driver for change within the sector. A change in perspective for healthcare delivery- a more focussed one on providing value-based care to patients.
Can you spell out what health and wellness truly mean in healthcare delivery?
Health and wellness centres if they play out well, it would be going beyond the traditional boundaries of providing care. For example, primary healthcare which was largely looked at as women and child health restricted to immunisation and a little aid to women pre and post pregnancy; today, this has transitioned to become more focussed on a wider range of preventive and promotive care - inclusive of both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. So we are talking a lot of prevention — and that too what is called secondary prevention. We are talking about detecting hypertension, diabetes and many more lifestyle related diseases and trying to curb their rise as well as complications and deaths due to these diseases. Moreover, providing effective screening mechanisms and diagnostic services to patients so that they are assured of early and appropriate treatment which would ensure that their life expectancy is normal. Premature mortality due to these diseases can be averted.
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