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ABSTRACT
I. INTRODUCTION & OBJECTIVE:
If one of the several salient and sobering truths about the state of everyday lived realities brought under sharp scrutiny by the COVID-19 pandemic were to be singled out in order of sheer immediacy of urgency, – the chronic lack of capacity to manage rapidly emerging and exacerbating public health risks, further triggered by climate change, would surely have earned its place high on the list of policy, hence, legislative priorities.
II. METHODOLOGY:
However, successful resolution of situations rife with “conundrums” such as India’s endeavours towards re-setting an ostensibly heterogeneous, disparate and often overworked public healthcare scenario, demands an insightful, inclusive, pluralistic and well-rounded perspective on the politics and economics that shape and mould the applicable laws and policies as well as all its myriad applications that subsume within themselves, wider socio-economic ramifications, not the least, the undeniable tensions that continue to play out against a backdrop of an increasingly and irrevocably inter-dependent global arena.
III. RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS:
The above notwithstanding, typically, idyllic prescriptions tend to be a lot tougher to follow-through in practice, and perhaps nowhere is this chasm between the ‘Is’ and the ‘Ought’ more starkly apparent than in the cases of developing nations, such as India, – poised as we are, on the brink of a massive self-reinvention and socio-economic metamorphosis, where the power-principle balance is indeed a particularly tricky tightrope to negotiate.
IV. CONCLUSIONS:
Thus, it is in this post-pandemic era, informed by this very perspective, and armed with the lessons gleaned through the course of our tumultuous and often fraught legislative history, - that this paper seeks to analyse key elements India’s policy stance with specific reference to India’s National Health Policy (2017), and its National IPR Policy (2016) – in an effort to identify existing weaknesses and potential strengths when juxtaposed against a very evidently overwhelmed public health infrastructure landscape, with the aim of helping ease the equitable creation and sharing of green technology as may be applicable in the nation’s avowed goal of building a climate-resilient healthcare ecosystem as part of her pledge to help bring about true Universal Health Coverage from the ground up, not just under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (specifically UNSDG3), and the deliberations had pertaining to the IHR Guidelines, the Paris Accord & the proposed Pandemic Accord, and those under the aegis of the World Health Assemblies, the G20 & COP28 summits, – but as a significant feature of India’s very own Constitutional ideals as well.
V. KEYWORDS:
- Universal Health Coverage
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- UNSDG3
- Public Healthcare
- Climate-Resilient Healthcare Systems
- National IPR Policy (India)
- National Health Policy (India)
- Paris Accord
- World Health Assemblies
- IHR Guidelines
- Pandemic Accord
- G20
- COP28
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