K. Srinath Reddy
The writer is president, Public Health Foundation of India.
Articles By K. Srinath Reddy
Health of a nation
In election season, parties promise universal health care. But it will need to be defined and monitored
What the heart knows
The history of cardiology through stories of daring innovations, painstaking research and chance discoveries.
The health transition
Progress on non-communicable diseases should not be benchmarked against sustainable development goals.
Writing our own exit lines
Supreme Court’s endorsement to the validity of the living will was much needed
Health warning
National Medical Commission Bill needs to be tended to, and improved, not abandoned
States of healthcare
Data from Global Burden of Disease study will help states chart their individual trajectories. They need to strengthen disease monitoring systems
Beyond the lament
Gorakhpur was only the acute manifestation of the chronic malady that ails our health system
How to heal healthcare?
Arun Gadre and Abhay Shukla present a searing critique of various distortions that have converted medicine in to a cynically commercial activity.
A Friendly Force
Research on benign effects of bacteria on nutrition has policy implications.
The post-dengue prognosis
The steady state efficiency of healthcare needs to be raised so that crises like this one can be avoided.
The Doctor Won’t See You Now
It is the pathetic state of the public health system that hits you in the gut, as you read this book.
The primary focus
A national health assurance scheme could start with basic services.
Living with the microbiome
The discovery of trillions of bacteria in our bodies changes our sense of self
The doctor is out
The expectation that they should return is legitimate but it cannot be enforced
Hé Bug-One!
His Excoriating Highness Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus,of flesh-eating fame,glowered at the motley crowd of now muted microbes
Science,sense and sensation
Picking on the superbugs origins is futile. India should be concerned about antibiotic resistance....
Working for a healthy heart
India lost 9.2 mn potentially productive years of life due to cardiovascular deaths in a year....
