Health Beyond Medicine
eBook - ePub

Health Beyond Medicine

Some Reflections on the Politics and Sociology of Health in India

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Health Beyond Medicine

Some Reflections on the Politics and Sociology of Health in India

About this book

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

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781040230701
Subtopic
Global Development Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Authors' Note
  7. 1 A Social, Political, and Public Health: Analysis of the Bhore Committee Recommendations
  8. 2 Of the Relationship Between Population and Development: Stop Vilifying the People
  9. 3 Landmarks in the Development of Health Care Services in India
  10. 4 Factors That Influenced the Development of Health Services in India
  11. 5 National Health Policy, 2017: Transition from a Draft Policy to Being the Official Prescription for Public Health Nemesis
  12. 6 The Challenges Before Public Hospitals, Their Origins and Possible Solutions
  13. 7 Socio-economic Inequalities and Health Outcomes in India
  14. 8 The Play of Religion in the Delivery of Rural Health Care: Impressions from Mewat District in Haryana
  15. 9 Pay for Performance Programmes in Health Care: An Analysis of Findings from Mewat District in Haryana
  16. Index

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