India: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health

India: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2015 - 320p

Part I: Contextualizing Public Health
1. Social Development and Economic Progress: Some Reflections on the Relationship /​ Deepak Nayyar
2. Agrarian Crisis, Farmers' Distress, and Exclusionary Growth /​ K.B. Saxena
3. Aspects of Food Security: The Production and Absorption of Food Grains in India in Recent Years /​ Utsa Patnaik
4. In the Name of the Poor: Urban Growth and Renewal /​ Dunu Roy
5. Equitable Access to Drinking Water through Public Private Partnership: A Myth or Reality /​ Gaurav Dwivedi
6. Before or After Birth? Mortality, Sex Selection, and the Girl Child /​ Mary E. John
7. The Reluctant State: Lacunae in Current Child Health and Nutrition Policies and Programmes in India /​ Vandana Prasad and Dipa Sinha
8. Locating Health in the Movement against Manual Scavenging /​ Usha Ramanathan and Bezwada Wilson

Part II: Lessons Learned from Public Health Interventions
9. Rebuilding Trust in Health Service Systems: Lessons from the South African Experience /​ Rama V. Baru
10. How has Tamil Nadu Fared under NRHM: An Introspection /​ Girija Vaidyanathan
11. Tamil Nadu: A Critical Engagement /​ Rakhal Gaitonde
12. Success and Constraints of the National Rural Health Mission: Is there a Need for Course Correction for India's Move towards Universal Health Coverage? /​ Rajesh Narwal
13. Developments in India's Domestic Pharmaceutical Sector and Implications for Universal Health Care in India /​ Biswajit Dhar and Reji Joseph
14. Shifts in Medical Research: Influence of Private Capital /​ Sandhya Srinivasan
15. Medical Knowledge, Policy, and People: Medicinal Plants and the Demand for Ayurvedic Medicines /​ Madhulika Banerjee
16. Publicly Financed Health Insurance Schemes in India: How Effective are They in Providing Financial Risk Protection? /​ Sakthivel Selvaraj, Anup K. Karan and Indranil Mukhopadhyay
17. Design, Implementation, and Patient Experiences of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana and Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme: A Qualitative Study from Bangalore District, Karnataka /​ Akhila Vasan, Sylvia Karpagam and Vijaya Kumar Seethappa
18. Public Private Partnership in Healthcare: Trajectories and Experiences from West Bengal /​ Bijoya Roy
19. The Commercialization of Public Health Services: Perspectives from Three States - West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh /​ Kasturi Sen, Samir-Guha Roy, Shuba Kumar and Kethineni V. Narayana
20. Birthing Experiences of Marginalized Women in a Peri-urban Public Health System: A Qualitative Study of Maternity Care /​ Nalini Viswanathan and Monica Wallia
21. Must History Repeat Itself? The Role of Dais in Maternity Care in Backward Districts of Himachal Pradesh /​ Imrana Qadeer, Bijoya Roy and Sandhya Goutam
22. Poor Women's Health and Stresses of Life: A Case Study from Pauri Garhwal /​ Ramila Bisht
23. Singrauli: Development, but at Whose Cost? /​ Vasudha A. and Ragini Prem

Part III: Social Development Index
24. Social Development Index 2014 /​ Surajit Deb

Part IV: Way Forward
25. A Vision for an Alternate Public Health Service for India /​ Debabar Banerji

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