The Lancet Commission on a citizen-centred health system for India

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Authors: Vikram Harshad Patel, Anuska Kalita, Kheya Melo Furtado, Nachiket Mor, Shubhangi Bhadada, Sandra Albert, Hasna Ashraf, Satchit Balsari, Indu Bhushan, Vijay Chandru, Mirai Chatterjee, Sarika Chaturvedi
+18 more Raghu Dharmaraju, Atul Gupta, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Gautam I. Menon, Arnab Mukherji, Poonam Muttreja, Anjali Nambiar, Thelma Narayan, Bhushan Patwardhan, Tejasvi Ravi, Sharad Sharma, Devi Shetty, Sudheer Kumar Shukla, S V Subramanian, Leila Varkey, Sandhya Venkateswaran, Siddhesh Zadey, Tarun Khanna
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(25)02169-5
Cited by: 3
References: 235

Abstract

India stands at a pivotal moment in its journey towards universal health coverage—a crucial component of the government's Viksit Bharat vision to elevate it to the status of a developed country by 2047, 100 years since its formation as an independent nation. At this juncture, there is unprecedented political will for reform and sustained economic growth, creating a window of opportunity to advance transformative change and for India to leapfrog to a new health-care paradigm: a universal, citizen-centred, and technology-driven system that dissociates affluence from access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Global Health and Epidemiology Global Maternal and Child Health Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Publication details

Journal / source
The Lancet
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
407
Issue
10526
Pages
388–468
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN