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Health Sector Reform in India: Perspectives and Issues (In 2 Volumes)

 
Thaneswar Bir (Author)
Synopsis This book may be referred as ‘applied public health’. It deals with the most significant facets of healthcare services in India. The efforts enunciated in this book portray how the Indian social dynamics influences the health policy-decisions and plan of actions. It focuses ‘health sector reform’ towards a basic framework of sustained process of fundamental changes guided by the government to improve effective, in health sector, the pertinent issues concerning Indian situations have been delineated to inform the readers that reforms in health care activities should not only deal with the concerns in relation to structure and function of medical care establishment, but also should take care of the issues pertaining impact on health and quality of life of the people. First volume of the book scrutinizes the processes of change in relation to ‘heath sector reform strategies and experiences’, ‘user charge’, ‘health insurance’, ‘role of NGOs in health sector’, ‘PHC and panchayat system collaboration and ‘health policy research’. Second volume of the books deals with the issue containing the impact reflections of health sector reform initiatives. Such major concerns comprise the ‘politics of poverty and health’, ‘sex ratio’ ‘status of women’, ‘social dynamics of missing girl child’ ‘danger to the extinction of primitive tribe’, ‘old age and social security’ and ‘tribal health strategies and management’. Each subject sets the reading sin context of highlights the critical dimensions of both structural and functional implications of the health care delivery system. This book draw attention to all categories of readers especially the policy makers, planners and researchers.
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About the author

Thaneswar Bir

Dr. Thaneswar Bir (b. 1958) is presently teaching the social health sciences to the Doctor of Medicine (MD) students in Community Health Administration at National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. he did his first MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from North Bengal University and second MA in Health Management, Planning and Policy from Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds (UK). He did his M.Phil and Ph.D. in Social Medicine and Community Health from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. After becoming a faculty member of the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, he conducted a study on 'health behavior' of the people dwelling in the urban slums of Gwalior city' and a study on 'danger of extinction to Khaiwar Tribe in Harrai village of Sidhi District (MP)'. He was actively involved in some important research projects like; 'willingness and economic capacity to pay for health care services', study of 'sustainability in area projects in Delhi and Orissa States’ and the study on ‘selective versus comprehensive features of primary health care implementation in a selected state in India’. He published a number of articles in indexed journals and presented papers in national and international seminar/conferences on different issues of health and health care delivery systems in India. In collaboration with the foreign experts from the universities of the U.K. and Thailand he conducted a number of training workshops on ‘Health policy research’ and ‘health economics’. Dr. Bir has several articles in the filed of health service development in India and a book in his credit.

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Bibliographic information

Title Health Sector Reform in India: Perspectives and Issues (In 2 Volumes)
Author Thaneswar Bir
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8189557246
length xxviii+344p., xviii+345+658p., Figures; Tables; References; Index; 23cm.