Health Beyond Medicine: Some Reflections on the Politics and Sociology of Health in India

Author:   Vikas Bajpai ,  Anoop Saraya
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032902364


Pages:   310
Publication Date:   02 December 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Health Beyond Medicine: Some Reflections on the Politics and Sociology of Health in India


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This book integrates the concept of healthcare with larger social determinants such as caste, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity. It presents a history of the development of health services, discusses the recommendations of the landmark report of the Bhore Committee that laid the foundations of the public health services in independent India, and traces the evolution of this system through social, economic, and political structures. The subject matter of this book also includes: The Play of Religion in the Delivery of Rural Health Care Of the Relationship Between Population and Development Pay for Performance Programmes in Health Care Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

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Author:   Vikas Bajpai ,  Anoop Saraya
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032902364


ISBN 10:   1032902361
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   02 December 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Imtiaz Ahmad Authors’ Note 1. A Social, Political, and Public Health: Analysis of the Bhore Committee Recommendations 2. Of the Relationship Between Population and Development: Stop Vilifying the People 3. Landmarks in the Development of Health Care Services in India 4. Factors That Influenced the Development of Health Services in India 5. National Health Policy, 2017: Transition from a Draft Policy to Being the Official Prescription for Public Health Nemesis 6. The Challenges Before Public Hospitals, Their Origins and Possible Solutions 7. Socio-economic Inequalities and Health Outcomes in India 8. The Play of Religion in the Delivery of Rural Health Care: Impressions from Mewat District in Haryana 9. Pay for Performance Programmes in Health Care: An Analysis of Findings from Mewat District in Haryana Index

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Vikas Bajpai teaches at the Center for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Anoop Saraya is Professor of Gastroenterology and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition Unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

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