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The Obesity Gold Rush: When Disease Becomes a Market Opportunity

How the Commercialization of Obesity is Reshaping Healthcare, Public Trust, and Patient Access

Hot Food, Cold Truths: What’s Lurking Behind Your Delivery?

The Hidden Health Risk in Your Food Delivery: Plastic Containers and Hot Meals

Stop Blaming People for Poor Health: Most of It Isn’t in Their Control – Time to RESET Population Health Paradigm

Let’s put responsibility where the data say it belongs: on the policies and institutions with the power to shift the other 85–90%.

The Day a Prescription Spoke Clearly — A Patient’s Story of Trust and Transformation

From Confusion to Clarity: How a Typed Prescription Built Trust and Transformed a Patient’s Experience

Is the Bismarck Model Next? A Farewell to Beveridge?

Unless we reimagine a new model—one that borrows the equity of Beveridge, the efficiency of Bismarck, and the compassion of patients—we risk inheriting a system with no soul at all.

The Big Shift Needed to Transform Healthcare: From Clinical to Social Medicine

This shift in thinking is not just a passing trend; it is a necessary evolution in the face of rising chronic diseases and deepening health inequities worldwide.

Digital Quackery: The Rise of Social Media Influencers as Modern-Day Medical Frauds (Digital Quacks)

The word ‘Digital Quackery’ is being used for the first time in healthcare lexicon in this article- this will take time for acceptance

Gen Beta & Your Future

In my view, Gen Beta is not for those born on or after 1st Jan 2025, but everyone living today. Because, no one can stay untouched from AI in the ‘Age of Artificial Intelligence’.

Celebrating 22500 Followers & 10,000 Newsletter Subscribers: A major Milestone for Health Parliament

We started this journey with a simple goal: to foster informed conversations and create a platform for diverse voices for fostering innovation and help the policy-makers in the health sector.

Health Parliament can Help You in Your Journey to Becoming a Large Canvas Strategic Thinker & a Policy-Maker

Based on the contributions on the platform, you can advance through the levels as you contribute, potentially achieving the 'influencer level' status by investing your intellectual capital, sharing ideas, writing blogs, leading discussions, and influencing policy-makers with innovative solutions.

Patient Trafficking - Horror and Not Healing

Many patients, being vulnerable and uninformed, often fall prey to these unscrupulous people and get driven to clinics, nursing home or hospitals hoping for healing.

Unsung Heroes: Real Work, Real Impact

When individuals take ownership of their health and their communities, when a spirit of shared responsibility takes root, that's when public health truly thrives.

Public Health Plagued with Triple Burden – Thinking, Leadership & Implementation

Taming the Healthcare Monsters: Profits, Pricing and Publicity

While the Indian healthcare system is recognized for its affordability and advancements, the lack of price regulations in the private sector and unrestricted advertising practices have created significant hurdles.

NCDs- The Perennial Pandemic

Let's clearly define fast food (Harmful Foods & Drinks - HFD) – not just burgers and fries, but sugary drinks, processed snacks, and anything high in saturated fat, sodium emphasizing the gravity it warrants.

ASHA & AWW- The Hope and Foundation of Indian Healthcare

In 2022, the Health Parliamentdecided to invest in research to understand the backbone of Indian healthcare – namely, ASHAs and AWWs covering six zones.

Insurance is a 'Catastrophic Health Expense'

Ideal 'Health Insurance' could be an 'Assurance', a combination of 'genetic + physical screening + routine primary checks coupled with self-care- a dose of micro and macronutrients, physical and mental activity.'

"SUPER"-stition Vs Medical Science

Our healthcare policies must evolve to become more patient-centric and inclusive, addressing the needs of all. It's not just about specific diseases in specific places; it's about all of us.

Medicine is not Cure, it is the Cause

We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.