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Cervical cancer policy in India: can new methods bring health and industrial policies closer together?

 

The chronological timeline uses information from several health policy documents, revealing the uneven integration and lag between industrial and health policies. The heuristic used to derive this chronology provides a way to analyze and conceptualize targeted cancer innovation.

The linkages between health and industry are integral to understanding the complex environment in which they operate with evolving mechanisms and stakeholders.
 

Source: Srinivas (2012: 8)

 

In all three domains of the above triad, industrial advances in cervical cancer management are underway in India. Our preliminary findings reveal that production (1) interventions are insufficiently integrated with both demand and delivery. In India, public health is a state subject, with considerable potential for more systematic integration of supply-side prototyping and manufacturing with state-level public health priorities (demand and delivery i.e., 2 &3). The figure above suggests that it is clear that cervical cancer diagnostics and HPV vaccines are not simple policy substitutes in India and that a discussion of industrial dynamism and innovation are also important considerations during their evaluation.

 

References: 

Srinivas, S. (2012) Market Menagerie: Health and development in late industrial states. Stanford: Stanford University Press

Srinivas, S. and D. Kale (2021) 'New approaches to learning and regulation in medical devices and diagnostics'. Innovation Knowledge and Development Working Paper 90. Available at: https://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/publications/working-papers/90