Public health should be located within society and politics rather than within medicine. The majority of the priority health conditions in India require public health solutions (e.g. water, sanitation, nutrition, housing education, employment, social protection) rather than medical and pharmaceutical interventions. However, the mainstreaming and scaling up of efforts in these areas requires political commitment for inter-sectoral dialogue, an ethical framework which views public health as a human right and resource allocation which examine issues through the public health lens.
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