Health
Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi staying at A 15, Paryavaran Complex,
New Delhi 110030 (INDIA), Mobile : +91-9818097247 has designed a Masterplan Paradigm for the overall development of Health in the
following manner :
1.1 Principles
We believe that good health is dependent upon:
a) the environmental, social, political, economic, cultural
and spiritual context of life;
b) protection of the biosphere and earth’s ecosystem, and
ecological sustainability;
c) peace and nuclear disarmament, freedom from war, freedom
from violence in the community and in the home;
d) social justice and community participation in
decision-making;
e) the provision of equal access to affordable, appropriate
health services, which emphasise care as well as cure;
f) an emphasis on community-based and community-controlled
primary health care, available from a comprehensive range of
service providers;
g) the placement of greater emphasis on health promotion,
disease prevention and education for optimum health;
h) research which encompasses traditional and
alternative/complementary treatment modalities;
i) an intersectoral approach to policy-making with
health-outcomes criteria affecting decisions made across a
range of portfolios, such as transport, housing,
environmental protection, employment, local community
services and education;
j) the availability of a universal health fund covering not
only medical and hospital, but including the full range of
appropriate health services and also including dental and
nursing services; and
k) forms of treatment which have been developed in an
ethical framework which acknowledges true environmental and
social cost/benefits.
1.2 Goals
We aim to:
a) develop and implement a national environmental health
strategy which supports a public health approach to health
enhancement, and identifies clear national health
priorities;
b) reduce high hospital admission rates by re-orienting
health service provisions to a public health focus which is
preventive, and to a primary care approach concerned with
maintenance of optimum health status;
c) phase out the use of animals for medical research;
d) instigate a parliamentary inquiry into iatrogenic deaths
in hospital;
e) develop, with widespread community consultation, a Health
Bill of Rights and Responsibilities;
f) ensure that India fulfils international obligations to
address environmental issues which may have impact on
health;
g) ban the use of hormones and drugs on farm animals, other
than those medications which are therapeutic and
individually prescribed by veterinarians;
h) restrict the use of chemical food additives and the
practice of irradiating food;
i) consider the effects of fluoridation of drinking water ;
j) expand the network of multi-disciplinary community health
centres which will provide a range of treatment options,
with community-based control of resource allocation;
k) expand the availability of birthing centres, where
midwives provide primary management;
l) expand the availability of mobile women’s health centres
in remote and rural areas;
m) initiate programme aimed at reducing suicide rates,
particularly among young people and people in rural areas;
n) reintroduce dental care as a service claimable under
Medicare.
1.3 Short Term Targets
We support:
a) the maintaining of Medicare;
b) an increase in the Medicare levy on the basis that such
funds (ie. those derived from the increase ) be directed
specifically to primary and public health care (ie. to
maintenance of optimum health) rather than to reactive
disease management interventions;
c) the proposal that all pharmaceutical drugs be sold under
their generic names as well as under their commercial ones
and that the generic names appear in all advertising for a
particular drug;
d) the implementation of legislation whereby Medicare
rebates are available across a wider range of therapeutic
interventions;
e) the development and implementation of social policies to
address the widespread over-use of medications..
