INCLUSIVE POLICY AND HEALTH CARE: MEDIA’S PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The article explores how policy implementation and change management can be improved in India, with the health insurance scheme as the basis for narrative exploration. It sets out the similarities and differences in assumptions between supra-national organizations such as the World Bank and World Health Organization on policy implementation and change management and those contained in the Indian national health policy. The study provides a framework of the dimensions that should be considered in policy implementation and change management in India, the nature of structural and infrastructural problems and wider societal context, and the ways in which conceptions of organizations and the variables that impact on organizations’ capability to engage in policy implementation and change management differ from those in the West. This article further investigates concepts in management studies with those in policy studies, with the use of narrative approaches to the understanding of policy implementation and change management. Elements of culture, religion and ethical values are introduced to further the understanding of policy making and implementation in non-Western contexts.