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Sandhya Venkateswaran

Sandhya Venkateswaran

Articles by Sandhya Venkateswaran

Strengthening primary care in India

Health care

Updated on Mar 2, 2025 03:30 IST

Opportunities and challenges in health financing in India

Health care (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

Updated on Feb 20, 2025 09:19 IST

Paving the path towards universal health coverage

The Union government has fiscal constraints that prevent the provision of a comprehensive universal benefit package (UBP) in publicly-funded health facilities to all its population. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

Updated on Dec 18, 2024 15:05 IST

Federal financing of health: Implications for capacity and priority

Health

Updated on Jun 7, 2024 08:23 IST

Reimagine the State-citizen social contract

After 75 years, the question is whether the social contract with our political leaders is based on the issues we see as gaps and what are the mechanisms and platforms to reimagine and reconstruct such a contract between ruling regimes and citizens. (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Aug 20, 2022 15:28 IST

Recognising the role of health in India’s social and economic growth

When we focus on health, there has been progress, but India remains well below peer countries — and where it needs to be — in terms of the well being of citizens. This stems from multiple reasons. (HTPhoto)

Updated on Sep 29, 2021 10:12 IST

Women leaders, and women voters, matter

Union minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman and union minister for women & child development Smriti Irani along with newly appointed women Cabinet ministers in New Delhi. (ANI)

Updated on Jul 19, 2021 01:26 IST

Why don’t voters value health care?

With little citizen-demand, and limited appreciation of the health-economy link, it is not surprising that political and electoral attention to health has been limited. This has resulted in India’s health having one of the lowest public investments (HTPHOTO)

Updated on Apr 6, 2021 14:33 IST

How Covid-19 can transform health care

The pandemic led to innovations in four areas — leveraging technology, leveraging community platforms, strengthening frontline workers and augmenting supply chains (Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Mar 10, 2021 01:24 IST

Visible tools to tackle hidden hunger

HT Image

Updated on Jul 7, 2013 21:39 IST

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