Health, Poverty and Development in India
Published on 1. July 1996
Book
Hardback
377 pages
978-0-19-563621-5 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of papers discussing the health situation in India, the problems of measurement of health status, the relation between nutrition, health and socio-economic status, aspects of the political economy of health care, and future directions of health policy and health financing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures, tables
ISBN-13
978-0-19-563621-5 (9780195636215)
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Content
Preface. 1.: Monica Das Gupta and Lincoln C. Chen: Introduction. Poverty and Health. 2.: Amartya Sen: Objectivity, Health and Policy. 3.: Tim Dyson: The Demography of the 1991 Census. 4.: Pravin Visaria and Anil Gumber: Socio-economic differentials in Patterns of Health Care Access and Utilization. 5.: T.K. Sundari Ravindran: Social Inequality and Child Health Status : A Study of a Scheduled Caste Population. 6.: Christopher J.L. Murray: Epidemiologic and Morbidity Transitions in India. 7.: Nigel Crook: Urbanization and Health in India. 8.: Debarati Guha Spir: Health and Nutrition of the Urban Poor: the Case of the Calcutta Slums. 9.: Meera Chatterjee: The Nutritional Challenge to Health and Devleopment in India. Health Services and Policies. 10.: M. Kabir and T.N. Krishnan: Social Intermediation and Health Change: Lessons from Kerala. 11.: Roger Jeffery: Toward a Political Economy of Health Care: Comparisons of India and Pakistan. 12.: Debabar Banerji: Political Economy of Public Health in India. 13.: Sumit Guha: Health and Environmental Sanitation in Twentieth Century India. 14.: Peter Burman: Health Care Expenditure in India