Healthcare in Post-Independence India
eBook - ePub

Healthcare in Post-Independence India

Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services

  1. 202 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Healthcare in Post-Independence India

Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services

About this book

This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective. It offers an examination of the changing pattern of the entire health care sector, which over recent decades has transformed itself to a profit-making commodity.

The book explores the complexities of the health care services in Kolkata with special emphasis on the emergence, growth, role and the changing pattern of private health care organisations and the decline or degeneration of the services of public hospitals. Post-1947 India experienced the implementation of new developments in public health services, amongst others vertical programmes, primary health centers, family planning welfare programmes and community health volunteers. Examining the challenges in establishing a comprehensive health service system and the process of market forces in health care, the author investigates its linkages with policies of the welfare state.

This book will be of interest to academics in the field of medical sociology, history of medicine and health and development studies and South Asian Studies.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780367762964
eBook ISBN
9781000647457
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Regional Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures and tables
  9. Preface and Acknowledgement
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Promises and Commitments: The Development of Healthcare Policies and Plans in Independent India
  12. 2 Changing Paradigm in Health Sector (Plans, Policies and Reports): Mid-1980s to 2000s
  13. 3 Public Health Sector and the Development of Nursing Homes in an Eastern Indian Metropolis: From Independence to Late 1990s
  14. 4 Causes behind the Changing Profile of Private Healthcare Sectors
  15. 5 The Metamorphosis of Private Healthcare
  16. Conclusion
  17. Index