Imrana Qadeer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1012190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imrana Qadeer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imrana |
| FAMILY NAME | Qadeer |
| SIGNATURE | QADEER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Production, Processing and Pertinence of Data
Universalising Healthcare in India
The absurdity of research registration for community-oriented knowledge coproduction
box: ►Requirement for a priori registration of research builds on the colonial roots of global health, excluding community-based researchers from global conversations. ► When communities and community-based organisations (CBOs) coproduce knowledge, it is more relevant, acceptable, appropriate, responsive and effective in generating change. ► Recognising the inherent value of studies which are small, specific, local, descriptive, observational or …
Covid’s Effect on India’s Health Services
Using a comprehensive framework (the state’s will to deliver, its institutional strength and its legitimacy), this article assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public sector healthcare services in India. The power to deliver was explicit when the interventions were harsh, increasing the burden of death and disease on health services. But when it came to healthcare by the public sector we find a worsening of achievements of non-COVID ai…
Universalising Healthcare in India
Covid-19
In the absence of specific drugs and vaccines, precautions at the personal level (hygiene, maintaining physical distancing and so on), people’s participation in population-level interventions (such as sharing scientific information, case-tracking and strategic area-specific lockdowns) and health service system preparedness are the three key available measures against the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the necessary ingredients for these three measur…
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana
The current budgetary allocation of ₹20 billion under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) is grossly inadequate. Our paper estimates that in the current fiscal year, the scheme will require an allocation of at least ₹420.73 billion to be able to give any meaningful coverage to 0.1 billion targetted families. This paper argues that such an expensive tertiary sector- led medical care coverage model is not the correct approach to ensure Uni…
The National Family Health Survey
Words, Ideas and Ideology in the Shifting Sand of Markets
The transformation of existing knowledge or production of new knowledge is the focus of this article. This theme is explored using women’s health, actions and perceptions, and their interpretations—within a public health perspective—as these evolve around the currently most talked about high-tech obstetric intervention—the practice of surrogacy. The interpretations of words such as production, reproduction, labour and work are central to the pres…
India’s Declining Calorie Intake
The analysis of food consumption data from successive rounds of the National Sample Survey (NSS), from 1993–1994 to 2009–2010, has shown that through the greater part of the post-liberalisation era India has seen a steadily declining level of calorie intake. This phenomenon is often attributed to increasing prosperity, declining morbidity and technological advancements that reduce hard manual labour and, hence, human energy requirement. The valid…
Shrinking Spaces for the 'Public' in Contemporary Public Health
This contribution joins the debate on the politics of global health, and specifically inequality in health. Focusing on three recent and pertinent reports, it examines two opposing perspectives for dealing with this inequality. Driven by the global financial crisis, one perspective attempts to validate the intervention of global capital through markets, technology and research funding in global health; it promotes a uniform model of universal hea…
Evidence-based Planning—A Myth or Reality
Public–private partnerships (PPP) are being touted as the way forward for health care in the country as demonstrated by the draft chapter of the 12th Five-year Plan for health. The planning commission refers to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, Raichur, as ‘evidence’ of ‘good’ PPP without mentioning the multiple problems identified in this model, as documented in an evaluation report by the Government of Karnataka. The concerns raised by…
Universal Health Care
This article locates health care and technology within the shifts in capitalist evolution from welfare to neoliberal development and examines why the concept of Comprehensive Primary health care has been distorted by the market to varying extents globally. Its focus is on India’s planning process where the thrust is to transform health services into commodities and tools of extraction of profit to which all levels of health care are subordinated.…
Benefits and threats of international trade in health
The World Development Report 1993
Work, Wealth and Health
India's feeding programmes and their relevance
Universal Health Care
This article locates health care and technology within the shifts in capitalist evolution from welfare to neoliberal development and examines why the concept of Comprehensive Primary health care has been distorted by the market to varying extents globally. Its focus is on India’s planning process where the thrust is to transform health services into commodities and tools of extraction of profit to which all levels of health care are subordinated.…
Benefits and threats of international trade in health
Shrinking Spaces for the 'Public' in Contemporary Public Health
This contribution joins the debate on the politics of global health, and specifically inequality in health. Focusing on three recent and pertinent reports, it examines two opposing perspectives for dealing with this inequality. Driven by the global financial crisis, one perspective attempts to validate the intervention of global capital through markets, technology and research funding in global health; it promotes a uniform model of universal hea…
Work, Wealth and Health
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana
The current budgetary allocation of ₹20 billion under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) is grossly inadequate. Our paper estimates that in the current fiscal year, the scheme will require an allocation of at least ₹420.73 billion to be able to give any meaningful coverage to 0.1 billion targetted families. This paper argues that such an expensive tertiary sector- led medical care coverage model is not the correct approach to ensure Uni…
Words, Ideas and Ideology in the Shifting Sand of Markets
The transformation of existing knowledge or production of new knowledge is the focus of this article. This theme is explored using women’s health, actions and perceptions, and their interpretations—within a public health perspective—as these evolve around the currently most talked about high-tech obstetric intervention—the practice of surrogacy. The interpretations of words such as production, reproduction, labour and work are central to the pres…
India’s Declining Calorie Intake
The analysis of food consumption data from successive rounds of the National Sample Survey (NSS), from 1993–1994 to 2009–2010, has shown that through the greater part of the post-liberalisation era India has seen a steadily declining level of calorie intake. This phenomenon is often attributed to increasing prosperity, declining morbidity and technological advancements that reduce hard manual labour and, hence, human energy requirement. The valid…
The World Development Report 1993
India's feeding programmes and their relevance
Work, Wealth and Health
The World Development Report 1993
Benefits and threats of international trade in health
Evidence-based Planning—A Myth or Reality
Public–private partnerships (PPP) are being touted as the way forward for health care in the country as demonstrated by the draft chapter of the 12th Five-year Plan for health. The planning commission refers to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, Raichur, as ‘evidence’ of ‘good’ PPP without mentioning the multiple problems identified in this model, as documented in an evaluation report by the Government of Karnataka. The concerns raised by…
Universal Health Care
This article locates health care and technology within the shifts in capitalist evolution from welfare to neoliberal development and examines why the concept of Comprehensive Primary health care has been distorted by the market to varying extents globally. Its focus is on India’s planning process where the thrust is to transform health services into commodities and tools of extraction of profit to which all levels of health care are subordinated.…
Words, Ideas and Ideology in the Shifting Sand of Markets
The transformation of existing knowledge or production of new knowledge is the focus of this article. This theme is explored using women’s health, actions and perceptions, and their interpretations—within a public health perspective—as these evolve around the currently most talked about high-tech obstetric intervention—the practice of surrogacy. The interpretations of words such as production, reproduction, labour and work are central to the pres…
India’s Declining Calorie Intake
The analysis of food consumption data from successive rounds of the National Sample Survey (NSS), from 1993–1994 to 2009–2010, has shown that through the greater part of the post-liberalisation era India has seen a steadily declining level of calorie intake. This phenomenon is often attributed to increasing prosperity, declining morbidity and technological advancements that reduce hard manual labour and, hence, human energy requirement. The valid…
Shrinking Spaces for the 'Public' in Contemporary Public Health
This contribution joins the debate on the politics of global health, and specifically inequality in health. Focusing on three recent and pertinent reports, it examines two opposing perspectives for dealing with this inequality. Driven by the global financial crisis, one perspective attempts to validate the intervention of global capital through markets, technology and research funding in global health; it promotes a uniform model of universal hea…
The National Family Health Survey
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana
The current budgetary allocation of ₹20 billion under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) is grossly inadequate. Our paper estimates that in the current fiscal year, the scheme will require an allocation of at least ₹420.73 billion to be able to give any meaningful coverage to 0.1 billion targetted families. This paper argues that such an expensive tertiary sector- led medical care coverage model is not the correct approach to ensure Uni…
Covid-19
In the absence of specific drugs and vaccines, precautions at the personal level (hygiene, maintaining physical distancing and so on), people’s participation in population-level interventions (such as sharing scientific information, case-tracking and strategic area-specific lockdowns) and health service system preparedness are the three key available measures against the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the necessary ingredients for these three measur…
Universalising Healthcare in India
The absurdity of research registration for community-oriented knowledge coproduction
box: ►Requirement for a priori registration of research builds on the colonial roots of global health, excluding community-based researchers from global conversations. ► When communities and community-based organisations (CBOs) coproduce knowledge, it is more relevant, acceptable, appropriate, responsive and effective in generating change. ► Recognising the inherent value of studies which are small, specific, local, descriptive, observational or …
Covid’s Effect on India’s Health Services
Using a comprehensive framework (the state’s will to deliver, its institutional strength and its legitimacy), this article assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public sector healthcare services in India. The power to deliver was explicit when the interventions were harsh, increasing the burden of death and disease on health services. But when it came to healthcare by the public sector we find a worsening of achievements of non-COVID ai…
Universalising Healthcare in India
Production, Processing and Pertinence of Data
Political science (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Health care (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Law (5 works)