India: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health

Council for Social Development

Presents an extensive analyses of the condition of health in India, as well as the policy lacunae
Address the relationship between the country's development process and health crisis as well as the health policy discourse in contemporary India

India: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health

Council for Social Development

Description

This report looks at the state of health policies in India and assesses its dynamics its failings and triumphs suggesting, through nuanced essays and empirical data, ways of improving the existing conditions. Comprising four parts the report focuses on welfare system and its implication for health that includes issues related to legislation, policies and welfare programmes. It evaluates its achievements against the Council for Social Development Index which, having evolved over some years, offers an alternative towards enhancing the state and reach of public health in 21st Century India. The report takes stock of the challenges and hurdles faced by the country's health system before focusing on a vision of the future of public sector health services and some priority areas such as issues of nutrition, child health, women's mental stress arising out of ill-health, environmental health in industrial areas and neglect over the turn of the 20th Century. The report concludes with assessing the existing trends in health services and determining the outcome of liberalization and health sector reforms.

India: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health

Council for Social Development

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

India: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health

Council for Social Development

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Council For Social Development Development is an independent research organization, established in 1970 by a group of scholars and policymakers in social development led by Durgabai Deshmukh and C.D. Deshmukh. The Council, through its research and advocacy, seeks to secure a just and equitable development outcome.