Health Beyond Medicine : Some Reflections on the Politics and Sociology of Health in India.

Foreword by Imtiaz AhmadAuthors' Note1. A Social, Political, and Public Health: Analysis of the Bhore Committee Recommendations2. Of the Relationship Between Population and Development: Stop Vilifying the People3. Landmarks in the Development of Health Care Services in India4. Factors That Influenced the Development of Health Services in India5. National Health Policy, 2017: Transition from a Draft Policy to Being the Official Prescription for Public Health Nemesis6. The Challenges Before Public Hospitals, Their Origins and Possible Solutions7. Socio-economic Inequalities and Health Outcomes in India8. The Play of Religion in the Delivery of Rural Health Care: Impressions from Mewat District in Haryana9. Pay for Performance Programmes in Health Care: An Analysis of Findings from Mewat District in HaryanaIndex

This book integrates the concept of healthcare with larger social determinants such as caste, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity. It presents a history of the development of health services, discusses the recommendations of the landmark report of the Bhore Committee that laid the foundations of the public health services in independent India, and traces the evolution of this system through social, economic, and political structures. The subject matter of this book also includes: The Play of Religion in the Delivery of Rural Health Care Of the Relationship Between Population and Development Pay for Performance Programmes in Health Care Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)