Public Health In India

Author : Diatha Krishna Sundar,Shashank Garg,Isha Garg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317408949

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Public Health in India by Diatha Krishna Sundar,Shashank Garg,Isha Garg Pdf

Despite rapid advances in modern medicine and state-of-the-art health care services in the private sector, primary health care in India remains inaccessible to a majority of the population. Besides, even policymakers often do not have access to real-time data to fine-tune their policies or design appropriate research and intervention programmes. Drawing on field experiences, this volume brings together scholars and practitioners to examine public health from different perspectives. It discusses practical and applied issues related to the health sector, especially the role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT); participation of civil society; service delivery; quality evaluation; consumer empowerment; data management; and research and intervention. This book will be useful to scholars, students and practitioners of public health in developing countries such as India. It will also interest policymakers, health care professionals, and departments of public health management and those concerned with community medicine.

Author : Monica Das Gupta
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Public health
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Public Health in India by Monica Das Gupta Pdf

"Public health services, which reduce a population's exposure to disease through such measures as sanitation and vector control, are an essential part of a country's development infrastructure. In the industrial world and East Asia, systematic public health efforts raised labor productivity and life expectancies well before modern curative technologies became widely available, and helped set the stage for rapid economic growth and poverty reduction. The enormous business and other costs of the breakdown of these services are illustrated by the current global epidemic of avian flu, emanating from poor poultry-keeping practices in a few Chinese villages. For various reasons, mostly of political economy, public funds for health services in India have been focused largely on medical services, and public health services have been neglected. This is reflected in a virtual absence of modern public health regulations and of systematic planning and delivery of public health services. Various organizational issues also militate against the rational deployment of personnel and funds for disease control. There is strong capacity for dealing with outbreaks when they occur, but not to prevent them from occurring. Impressive capacity also exists for conducting intensive campaigns, but not for sustaining these gains on a continuing basis after the campaign. This is illustrated by the near eradication of malaria through highly organized efforts in the 1950s, and its resurgence when attention shifted to other priorities such as family planning. This paper reviews the fundamental obstacles to effective disease control in India and indicates new policy thrusts that can help overcome these obstacles. "-- World Bank web site.

Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521466881

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Public Health in British India by Mark Harrison Pdf

After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India and its inhabitants, and the way in which these were reflected in medical literature and medical policy; the fate of public health at local level under Indian control; and the effects of quarantine on colonial trade and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The book places medicine within the context of debates about the government of India, and relations between rulers and ruled. In emphasising the active role of the indigenous population, and in its range of material, it differs significantly from most other work conducted in this subject area.

Author : Anuj Kapilashrami,Rama V Baru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351049009

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Global Health Governance and Commercialisation in India by Anuj Kapilashrami,Rama V Baru Pdf

Global health governance has been the subject of wide scholarship, more recently brought to the fore by priorities for global health defined by the Sustainable Development Agenda. The health landscape itself has changed dramatically in the last two decades, shaped by cross-border flows of capital, ideas, technology intermediated through the complex interaction between global, national and local actors and institutions. This book analyses the complex terrain of global health governance and local responses to new global forms of integration and fragmentation in India. It unpacks, both conceptually and empirically, local manifestation and translation of global health architecture and regimes and how these processes influence public health policy and practice; as well as to what extent rules and flows are complied with, resisted and transformed at national and sub-national levels. Drawing together critical scholarship on interactions between global and local actors, focusing on processes, dilemmas, conflicts and trade-offs that such engagement presents for national health policies and health systems, it speaks to this interface between the global, national and local. Filling an important gap in global health governance scholarship in India, the book is a useful contribution to the fields of Global Health Policy, International health and Development, Health Systems, Health Inequalities, public health, public administration, development studies, social work, nursing, management studies and mainstream social science disciplines that engage with globalisation and health.

Author : Imrana Qadeer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 9381144052

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Public Health in India by Imrana Qadeer Pdf

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241564885

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World Health Statistics 2015 by World Health Organization Pdf

World Health Statistics 2015 contains WHO's annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets. This year it also includes highlight summaries on the topics of reducing the gaps between the world's most-advantaged and least-advantaged countries and on current trends in official development assistance (ODA) for health. As in previous years World Health Statistics 2015 has been compiled using publications and databases produced and maintained by WHO technical programmes and regional offices. A number of demographic and socioeconomic statistics have also been derived from databases maintained by a range of other organizations.

Author : Anita Kar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811615542

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Birth Defects in India by Anita Kar Pdf

This book presents the epidemiology of birth defects and their public health and social implications in India. As neglected childhood disorders, birth defects remain invisible in global maternal and child health dialogues. Birth defects services are emerging in India. This book approaches birth defects from a public health perspective, identifying the core functions of a birth defects service. Keeping in mind the complex task of providing multidisciplinary services for children with disabilities and complex medical conditions, the book examines the basic public health activities that have been put in place to address these conditions in India. The book describes birth defects surveillance and the challenges of acquiring accurate and timely data on birth defects against the background of India’s mixed health system. It discusses opportunities for prevention of birth defects and describes the structure and function of an emergent genetic service. It explores issues related to an integrated service for children with special healthcare needs, such as screening, early intervention, and rehabilitation. Furthermore, it describes the impact of these conditions on caregivers, including birth defects stigma. This book not only addresses a knowledge gap in the field of public health in India, but also explores the broader issues of services for children with disabilities and disabling conditions in low and low-middle income settings where access to health care is not universal. Given the depth and breadth of its coverage, the book offers an essential resource for birth defects researchers, researchers in the field of maternal and child health, public health/ global health, disability researchers, and researchers from the fields of rehabilitation sciences, nursing and anthropology. This book will be a valuable read for social medicine/community medicine departments, global health courses, and public health schools in India and other low middle-income countries.

Author : JS Thakur
Publisher : Wolters kluwer india Pvt Ltd
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789351294412

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Public Health Approaches to Non - Communicable Diseases by JS Thakur Pdf

A comprehensive text book by Wolters Kluwer Lippincott covering all key features that are very helpful for the medical students.

Author : Devaki Nambiar,Arundati Muralidharan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811059995

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The Social Determinants of Health in India by Devaki Nambiar,Arundati Muralidharan Pdf

Drawing from the work of academics and practitioners from ten states across the country, this edited volume showcases and synthesises the diversity and richness of efforts to understand and act on the social determinants of health in India, the conditions in which we are born, grow, live work and age. Such an effort is salient in the current era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which have foregrounded the issue of equity and the need for a comprehensive, multi-sectoral agenda for health and development. In India, particularly in the last decade, there have been myriad efforts to more critically theorise and intervene in areas with bearing on health, like conflict, nutrition or urbanisation, or to address the concerns of vulnerable groups like women, children and the elderly. From these efforts emerge lessons of convergence for academic and policymaking institutions in India who are looking to operationalise and bring life to the SDG agenda in India and other Low and Middle Income Country settings. The book comprises eleven chapters and six short commentaries that appear in conversation with each other, as well as an annexure of validated, ready-to-use indicators for monitoring of social determinants of health.

Author : A. Venkat Raman,James Warner Björkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134035045

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Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care in India by A. Venkat Raman,James Warner Björkman Pdf

The book examines how the private sector in developing countries, specifically India, is tapped to deliver health care services to poor and underserved sections of population, through collaborative arrangements with the government.

Author : Sunder Lal MBBS,Vika BDS,MDS
Publisher : CBS Publishers & Distributors Private Limited
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789387742932

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PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE by Sunder Lal MBBS,Vika BDS,MDS Pdf

This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the text intended for • undergraduate medical students and • postgraduate students of community medicine | public health | community dentistry and community health nursing. In addition, it should serve as a valuable resource for health officers or managers of health programs at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, as well as teachers of community medicine and training institutes of public health.

Author : T.K. Sundari Ravindran,Rakhal Gaitonde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811050893

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Health Inequities in India by T.K. Sundari Ravindran,Rakhal Gaitonde Pdf

This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India. Amongst the BRICS countries, India ranks the lowest in the gender-gap index and has the highest poverty rate, and there is clear evidence that socio-economic inequalities have increased in India in the twenty-first century. These have direct impact on the health conditions of its people; however, there has been relatively little concerted research attention on health inequities in India. This volume fills the gap by synthesizing research evidence since the year 2000 on the topic. This is perhaps the first volume on this topic of such scope and breadth. Its uniqueness lies in the synthesis of evidence across a range of axes of disadvantages within a single volume: socio-economic position, caste, gender, other socially constructed vulnerabilities such as disability, HIV status, migrant status; and health-system factors contributing to or mitigating inequities in health. Each core chapter not only summarizes research findings but also engages critically with the perspectives reflected in the chapters and proposes a framework for understanding the mechanisms through which health inequities result. This volume highlights and addresses research gaps in both methodology and content, and is valuable to researchers and students of public health and allied health disciplines, including the social sciences, and also to policy makers and donors.

Author : Sanjeev Kelkar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789813341807

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India's Public Health Care Delivery by Sanjeev Kelkar Pdf

This book describes the present awful state of India’s Public Health Care Delivery, its dismal planning and implementation. It argues that it can be remedied comprehensively and effectively, using its ‘own already present’ resources. A radical re-evaluation of some sacrosanct ideas and discarding many of these, especially in Primary Care and its structure is required. It can be done without disadvantage to the last man served. This book starts with the sea change India has undergone and emphasizes new ways of managing health. High quality work force creation and its deployment, an unsolved problem is effectively given a solution. The bulk of the book discusses the entire public health care structure and function and how it can be newly laid out with proper work force allocation, hitherto grossly inadequate, including professionals from other training backgrounds. It is total solution that will help India to achieve the goal of Universal Health Care.

Author : Kabir Sheikh,Asha George
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136516825

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Health Providers in India by Kabir Sheikh,Asha George Pdf

This volume has articles contributed by health researchers, practitioners, policy advocates, programme managers and a journalist, and poems by renowned poet–physician Gieve Patel. Each presents a distinctive view of a particular group of frontline health providers, based on field research or on the authors’ respective experiences of working with or as providers. The health providers addressed in this volume include doctors (working in the public and private sectors), nurses, public health workers, counsellors, traditional practitioners and homecare providers. Different groups of health providers face struggles at diverse frontiers — social, professional and systemic. In the context of reforming health systems, government health workers must constantly negotiate the vagaries of changing working environments and policy vacillations. For traditional and homecare providers, formal health systems and structures often only reject and exclude their contributions. Medical doctors, conversely, face difficult challenges of introspection, as they tread the line between personal gain and public service. The ideas and themes that emerge in this collection not only contribute to the understanding of providers’ roles as actors in the health systems and societies of contemporary India, but re-examines preconceptions about this critical occupational group. This volume advances the case for a deeper appreciation of India’s complex landscape of healthcare provision, and of the potential roles of frontline health providers as central figures in development.

Author : Meerambika Mahapatro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811061592

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Domestic Violence and Health Care in India by Meerambika Mahapatro Pdf

This book discusses health care issues related to domestic violence, using extensive case studies from India. By discussing the global literature, legal systems, methodological challenges of gathering information on domestic violence, and health systems issues, along with learnings from case studies, it fills a significant gap in the literature between health care policy and practice vis-à-vis victims of domestic violence. It therefore enables a systemic and systematic response to incidents of domestic violence. Policy instructions, court verdicts, government interventions, community-based direct interventions and related case discussions in the book help in the understanding and management of cases. Though the book uses case studies from India, it addresses globally relevant issues for health care professionals. In view of the paucity of application of systematic evidence-based knowledge, the holistic perspective presented in the book is important to prevent domestic violence, protect women’s rights, and promote healthcare and wellbeing of women and children facing domestic violence. Medical professionals are expected to intervene in instances of injuries related to domestic violence---a responsibility that they are currently unable to fulfil due to lack of training in recognizing abuse and lack of tools for intervention. This book improves hands-on-knowledge by providing information on where to refer victims for assistance and timely intervention. Comprehensive yet lucid, this book is useful for academics, policy makers, non-government organizations and women’s rights groups in helping victims during and after a violent episode and also in improving reporting and referral services.