India: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health
Council for Social Development
Table of Contents
Foreword by Muchkund Dubey
Introduction: Imrana Qadeer: Challenges of Public Health in India Today: An Introduction
Part I: Contextualizing Public Health
1. Deepak Nayyar: Social Development and Economic Progress: Some Reflections on the Relationship
2. K.B. Saxena: Agrarian Crisis, Farmers' Distress, Exclusionary Growth
3. Utsa Patnaik: Aspects of Food Security: The Production and Absorption of Food Grains in India in Recent Years
4. Dunu Roy: In the Name of the Poor: Urban Growth and Renewal
5. Gaurav Dwivedi: Equitable Access to Drinking Water Through Public Private Partnership: A Myth or Reality
6. Mary E. John: Before or After Birth? Mortality, Sex Selection and the Girl Child
7. Vandana Prasad and Dipa Sinha: The Reluctant State: Lacunae in Current Child Health And Nutrition Policies and Programmes in India
8. Usha Ramanathan and Bezwada Wilson: Locating Health in the Movement against Manual Scavenging
Part II: Lessons Learned from Public Health Interventions
9. Rama V. Baru: Rebuilding Trust in Health Service Systems: Lessons from The South African Experience
10. Girija Vydyanathan: How Has Tamil Nadu Fared Under NRHM- An Introspection
11. Rakhal Gaitonde: Tamil Nadu A Critical Engagement
12. Rajesh Narwal: Success and Constrains of National Rural Health Mission: Is There a Need for Course Correction
13. Biswajit Dhar and Reji Joseph: Developments In India's Domestic Pharmaceutical Sector and Implications for Universal Healthcare in India
14. Sandhya Srinivasan: Shifts in Medical Research : Influence of Private Capital
15. Madhulika Banerjee: Medical Knowledge, Policy and People: Medicinal Plants and the Demand for Ayurvedic Medicines
16. Sakthivel Selvaraj, Anup K. Karan and Indranil Mukhopadhyay: Publicly Financed Health Insurance Schemes in India: How Effective Are They in Providing Financial Risk Protection?
17. Akhila Vasan, Sylvia Karpagam, and Vijaya Kumar Seethappa: Design, Implementation and Patient Experiences of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana and Vajypayee Arogyashree Scheme: A Qualitative Study from Bangalore District, Karnataka
18. Bijoya Roy: Public Private Partnership in Healthcare: Trajectories and Experiences from West Bengal
19. Kasturi Sen, Samir-Guha Roy, Shuba Kumar and Kethineni V. Narayana: The Commercialization of Public Health Services: Perspectives from West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
20.Nalini Viswanathan and Monica Wallia: Birthing Experience of Marginalized Women in Peri- Urban Public Health System: A Qualitative Study of Maternity Care
21. Imrana Qadeer, Bijoya Roy and Sandhya Goutam: Must History repeat Itself? The Role of Dais in Maternity Care in Backwards Districts of Himachal Pradesh
22. Ramila Bisht: Poor Women's Health and Stresses of Life: A Case Study From Pauri Garhwal
23. Vasudha A. and Ragini Prem: Singrauli: Development, But At Whose Cost?
Part III: Social Development Index
24. Surajit Deb: Social Development Index 2014
Part IV: Way Forward
25. Debabar Banerji: A Vision for an Alternate Public Health Service for India