Equity and Access

Health Care Studies in India

Edited by Purendra Prasad, Amar Jesani, and Sujata Patel

Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society

Unravels the complex narrative of why inequities in the health sector are growing in India
Explores whether globalization creates new opportunities or obstacles in democratizing health care systems
Assess the role of state in its obligations to ensure universal access to health care in terms of caste, class, and gender
Provides a holistic narrative that explains the politics of health care access in terms of distribution, utilization, and outcomes

Equity and Access

Health Care Studies in India

Edited by Purendra Prasad, Amar Jesani, and Sujata Patel

Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society

Description

Healthcare issues have assumed significant socio-economic and political significance in contemporary India. Both the central and the state governments have responded to criticisms of health care inaccessibility by including it as a part of its developmental policies in the last two decades. Given this context, the contributors to this volume explore how the health care system is structured in India; the role of the state, market, private, and corporate sector in health care; the distribution of basic health care facilities by the state across caste, class, gender, and spatial locations; the implications of increasing clinical trials and use of pharmaceuticals in terms of cost, exclusion, and ethicality; how globalization created opportunities or built hurdles for democratizing health care facilities; and the critical role of communities in the new health care system. This edited volume thus provides a holistic narrative that explains the politics of health care access in terms of distribution, utilization, and outcomes as well as the context in which health inequalities are reproduced which is critical not only to our scholarly understanding of health care but to informing the development of health care policy in India at a critical juncture.

Equity and Access

Health Care Studies in India

Edited by Purendra Prasad, Amar Jesani, and Sujata Patel

Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society

[.rt error 1] 8. Structure, Organization, and Knowledge Production of Clinical Trial Industry
Roger Jeffery, Gerard Porter, Salla Sariola, Amar Jesani, and Deapica Ravindran
9. Body as `Resource' in
Surrogacy and Bio-medical Research: New Frontiers and Dilemmas
Sarojini Nadimpally and Vrinda Marwah.

Section III: Equity Issues in Health Care - Gender, Caste, Disability and Violence

10. Health, Disability, and Equity: Conversation Among Bodies, Discourses, and Law
Renu Addlakha.
11. Caste, Class, and Gender on the Margins of the State: An Ethnographic Study Among Community Health Workers
Madhumita Biswal
12. Legitimising Violence: A Narrative of Sexual Health
Asima Jena
13. Addressing Violence Against Women as a Health Care Issue: Perceptions and Approaches
Sangeeta Rege and Padma Deosthali.

Section IV: Right to Health and Universal Health Strategies

14. Universal Health Coverage: How Viable?
K Srinath Reddy and Manu Raj Mathur

15. Kerala's Early Experience: Moving towards Universal Health Coverage
Sunil Nandraj and Devaki Nambiar
16. A Financing Strategy for Universal Access to Health Care: Maharashtra Model
Ravi Duggal.
17. The Right to Health: A Contested
Journey
Kajal Bharadwaj, Veena Johari and Vivek Divan

Index
About the Editors and Contributors

Equity and Access

Health Care Studies in India

Edited by Purendra Prasad, Amar Jesani, and Sujata Patel

Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society

Author Information

Edited by Purendra Prasad, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Edited by Amar Jesani, Independent Researcher and Editor, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and Sujata Patel, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India

N Purendra Prasad is Professor at the department of sociology and has been working at University of Hyderabad since 2000. His research interests include political economy of health, agrarian studies, development and urban studies. He is on the academic and ethical advisory boards of several universities and institutions in India.

Amar Jesani is an independent consultant - researcher and teacher - in bioethics and public health. He is one of the founders of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society and its journal, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) and is presently its editor. He is also one of the founding trustees of the Anusandhan Trust, which manages the health research institute, CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes) in Mumbai, and the health action institute, SATHI in Pune since 2010.

Contributors:

Ritu Priya, Rama V. Baru, Neha Madhiwalla, Anand Zacharaiah, Amit Sengupta, S. Srinivasan, Malini Aisola, Roger Jeffery, Gerard Porter, Salla Sariola, Deapica Ravindran, Sarojini Nadimpally, Vrinda Marwah, Renu Addlakha, Madhumita Biswal, Asima Jena, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Deosthali, K Srinath Reddy, Manu Raj Mathur, Sunil Nandraj, Devaki Nambiar, Ravi Duggal, Kajal Bharadwaj, Veena Johari, Vivek Divan