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

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)

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

This book integrates the concept of healthcare with social determinants such as l3: