Since India’S Independence In 1947, The Country Has Been

Nanda notes that the Indians’ success in the global market have attributed to Hindu values. These are constantly promoted by media and politicians. Ultra nationalism, worshiping Hindu gods and India itself has become a civil religion.

Katherine Boo’s book, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, portrays the “new life” the people in India live as capitalism and globalism ventures into their lives. These two systems look to promise new and improved social opportunities for all classes, not just the wealthy. However, although this makes it seem like the government of India in the 21st century is progressing towards a more fairer society for all its citizens, the reality is, they are really not progressing at all. Of course, while capitalism and globalization initially gave all citizens, especially the lower classes, hope that more opportunities would be available to them, it seems it has prevaricated it all as these opportunities have been more transformative to the elite and privileged classes than it has for the poor.

This book adds another brick to the patronising edifice it wants to tear down”. Indeed, he succeeds at reducing the beacon of a “Shining India”, (Adiga, Page 16) into no more than a puddle of murky monsoon showers caught in evanescent sunlight.

Access to health care is a significant problem. There are many stakeholders involved in the health care system and this paper will outline how the problems with health care access affect them. In general, the major stakeholders of the health care system are the patients, the physicians, nurses, other staff, management, shareholders, politicians and regulators. The families of patients, insurance companies, suppliers, medical schools and others are all key stakeholders worthy of consideration as well. The problem with access to health care is that health care access is uneven, so that many people have no access.

Although many people place healthcare in the limelight, it is equally, if not more important, to focus on the idea of public health. However, what exactly is public health? Public health is a paramount idea that focuses on the overall health within a community; rather than aiming to treat each individual within a community, public health places emphasis on the prevention and containment of the spread of harmful diseases and infections that pose a threat to a community, the promotion of overall healthy living, and intervention of policies. Public health focuses on addressing the underlying determinants of health, enveloping social, economic, and environmental factors that may influence health outcomes. Through the examination of these determinants,

“It’s difficult to describe this part of India to people, because you can’t understand what this country is really like until you have actually been here and experienced it,” Colleen Clines, the co-founder and CEO of Anchal Project, points out as our vehicle zig-zags its way through livestock, people and the occasional camel. We were with a small group of people that included Colleen’s mother, her sister Maggie Clines who is also the creative director at Anchal, and another writer from Kentucky. As we make our way towards a local children’s village, I take a moment to reflect on the fact that I was sitting comfortably in the Nashville airport just two days ago. Now, I was taking in the many sounds and smells that India had to offer on an overcrowded

After going through the 10 Essential Public Health Services, one thing that I cannot understand is why the Public Health Services are in so deplorable conditions. I believe that funds are affecting the health services in this country, with all the cuts in healthcare the people that cannot afford insurance are suffering. One factor that affect public health took at controlled childhood and other infectious diseases, this shift resources towards specialized medical care and that cause a damage of public health’s preventive agenda (Sultz, & Young, 2011, p.

In 2015 India was ranked among the highest countries globally in consumer confidence, this comes after the International Monetary Fund estimated an economic growth of up to 7% annually for the next decade in India. But this hasn 't always been the case, in fact, it wasn 't so long ago that India was simply another colonized nation around the world, not to mention it 's usually rare to see this kind of economic growth in such a small period of time. The Effects of globalization, with an emphasis on open trade networks, and the Imperial developments of the late 19th century have led to the emergence and rise of India 's market-based economy. This growth has been affected in a very positive way over a span of centuries by a combination of stronger economic developments brought about by a massive increase in the countries labor force and the emphasis on education and self-governance. An exposure to both the Western economic systems during the imperial age until their independence in 1947 and their subsequent involvement in the Asian, Middle Eastern and African trade routes from the late 15th century placed India in an economic equilibrium where they were able to benefit from both worlds and become one of the fastest growing economies.

In India, despite reforms and improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to socio-economic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket expenditures, with more than three-quarters of the increasing financial burden of health care being met by households.

Indians many times have been associated with funny accents, believers of caste system, culture that is full of colors and very smart people in math and technology. Indians make up less than 1% of the population of America and yet they are the CEO’s of “PepsiCo and MasterCard” and are presidents and deans of America’s most prestigious colleges and hold high positions in journalism such as Sanjay Gupta and neurosurgeon and media reporter for CNN here in Atlanta and Fareed Zakaria a journalist and author. “They are also dominating fields such as technology, scientific research and medicine; and thriving in industries such as hospitality, transportation and real estate. They have also achieved extraordinary success in government: the governors of two of America’s most conservative states are of Indian origin, as are White House senior

Inaccessibility in healthcare- Out of 60 respondent 26.7% use to go government hospital 68.3% do not

Over the years, government agencies have tightening their focus to improve the healthcare of people who live in poverty, although the results are not promising. According to Amartya Sen, there has been a misconception that a country needs to be rich in order for it to be healthy (Sen, 2015). While richer societies tend to be healthier, ‘’the connection is not automatic because it really depends on a wide range of factors, such as how societies choose to organize itself and deploy resources’’ (Sen, 2015). A research conducted by Bloom and Canning on how to improve healthcare reform for the underprivileged population suggested that our nation’s health spending was ‘’misallocated and inefficiently applied toward the affluent, and not the poor’’

Nation by nation, state by state, from the poor to the wealthy, Universal Health Care is an idea and public policy that is quickly becoming the norm. The United States however, remains almost exclusively the only country that does not provide Universal Health Care for its citizens. With our newly elected government attempting to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, our attempt in providing affordable health insurance for all, a public policy with high approval from both parties, this could be our golden opportunity to provide high level health coverage for all of our citizens. I will compare Kerala, formerly one of the poorest states in India, and their implementation of universal health care, with the United States.

The newly formed constitution of Nepal (2015) has recognized the health care services as basic rights of people and promised that government will provide the reproductive right, safe environmental right and free primary health care for every citizen in the country. Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has launched a basic program to improve the health care services in Nepal. But for this plan the political vision of an inclusive society should be necessary. Thus, access to health care is now protected as a constitutional right for all. Many things are becoming bottlenecks to improve healthcare sector in Nepal such as poverty, corruption, and political instability. Public health institutions have yet to be proved as reliable health institutions for rural citizens. Recently there has been seen some positive signal too because the government has announced to cure some of the expensive diseases as free in some hospitals such kidney dialysis and transparent, cancer, heart and so forth.

Truthfully, one becomes speechless and unsure of where to begin when conversing about Bapu. What can be said for a mentor, leader, politician, and human being like Mahatma Gandhi? Words are vulnerable to describe such a god-like figure. His life is his message from which people around the world have inspired their own lives from. He was from a middle class family, an average student in school, shy, nervous, could not muster courage to speak in public, nor was a good writer. Despite these facts, Gandhi went on to become the “Father of the Nation”. When hearing such things, certain questions would cross the mind such as how did he do all of this? What made people follow him to such an extent that they would stake their own lives for him? Why did people follow him? Such questions intrigues and puts oneself in wonderment of how India’s independence and present-day India’s modern nationalism came to existence. Nevertheless, the dedication, non-violence, and the faith of Satyagra enforced by Gandhi led to the independence of India, hence creating a modern nationalism for present-day India. This outcome came due to two major reasons, patriotism and satyagra. Without the relevance and balance of both of these reasons, India would have never gained the freedom and nationalism it has today.