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A healthier future for India

• India must improve its health care system to realize its economic potential. The problems facing the system are large—but not intractable if business, government, and civil society work together to solve them.
• A lack of qualified medical personnel is one serious problem. Public-private collaboration will be required to open up new opportunities for training and to ensure that employment programs like the National Rural Health Mission succeed.
• Subsidizing health care and insurance for India's poorest people will be necessary to improve the general level of health, as will campaigns to improve preventive care and promote healthful behavior.