SHANKAR IAS ACADEMY

Getting Public Health Right What is the issue? Amidst rise in various diseases and health concerns, it is high time that India addresses the issue of understanding "public health" appropriately. What is the misconception with public health? "Disease-care" is something which includes the different types of biomedical interventions to restore ill-health. This, in popular parlance, is called the “ healthcare ” which addresses the  visible infrastructure of clinics and hospitals and  is  labour-intensive. On the other hand, " public health " is all about  invisible infrastructure , working to mitigate social and environmental determinants of diseases. However, the term ‘public health’ has long been misappropriated to mean healthcare in the public sector. This confines the focus to only state-run hospitals.   More than 200 successful IAS,IPS, etc. bureaucrats and officers from all over India and the world come for conducting mock interv