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apacity building is a key element of any healthcare eco-system and it becomes significantly important in a country like India because of the need-supply gap and size of the market. The issue highlights this important need and how we can try and resolve it.
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The announcement of the Ayushman Bharat - PradhanMantri Jan AarogyaYojana (AB-PMJAY) is huge for the country, especially the less privileged sections of the country. The world might not have seen a program that covers such a large number of people on the planet. However, this kind of program will need great leadership and management capabilities of people at various levels of government, quasi-government and nongovernment organizations for effective implementation and for it to truly benefit ever last citizen in this country. And, this is the big challenge.
extent to raise awareness. Governments and Ministries of Health must accurately understand the scale of the problem by investing in surveillance and monitoring of cardiovascular disease. By making just a few small changes to our lives, we can reduce our risk of heart disease and stroke, as well as improving our quality of life and setting a good example for the next generation. There is no-shortcut to a healthy heart. We should spread the word that a healthy lifestyle is the key to a healthy heart.
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It’s an inspired proposal by IRDA which is presently at conversation stage, if the insurance companies are permitted to test products in a particular geography or among a set of few policyholders before they are officially launched in the marketplace, then, we believe that this will encourage insurers to create more comprehensive, innovative, personalized, and affordable suite of healthcare solutions benefiting the end consumers. Product testing in a particular geography is a progressive step to unleash innovation, ensure the acceptability of products by end-consumers, and lastly to help create pull market in health insurance. It’s a serious concern that insurance penetration in the country is substantially much lower against global average, nevertheless, with innovation driving newer affordable insurance products, the penetration level in the country can be expected to increase considerably going forward. Prasun Sikdar Health Insurance
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Taking a comprehensive approach to address the cardiovascular disease burden is the need of the hour. It is also very important to advocate life-saving techniques to prevent heart failure like CPR for revival after a sudden cardiac arrest. Conducting CVD awareness programmes and counselling sessions are also required to a greater VOLUM
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India is going through an epidemic of heart disease and unfortunately the growing incidents are seen in people under 40 who are suffering from coronary artery diseases 20% more than what we saw 5 years back. This can be attributed to a variety of reasons like stress, lack of exercise, increase in consumption of junk food, family history, etc. Adopting simple lifestyle changes every day like having low sugar and low-fat diet combined with a high fibers intake, regular exercising and along with the determination to quit smoking will drive in preventing heart disease. Few major risk factors for CVD are diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol and smoking. Therefore, people who fall under these risk factors should opt for timely treatment to control them.
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