Health And Development : The Millennium Perspectives
Contents: Preface. Contributors. Introduction/K. Gangadharan. I. Health care system and policy: 1. Rich doctors and poor patients: market failure and health care systems in developing countries/B.N. Ghosh. 2. Eleventh Five-Year Plan on food security: estimates and interpretations/M.H. Suryanarayana. 3. Policy reforms and health care system in Kerala: constraints and options/K. Gangadharan. II. Health and development: issues and strategies: 4. Investing in health: a review of measurement, theory and Indian evidence/Malathy Duraisamy and P. Duraisamy. 5. Government expenditure on health care provision in India/K. Govindaraja. 6. Emerging health scenario in India: present challenges and future strategies/R. Annapoorani. 7. Cost of treatment: a study based on medical pluralism/V. Anitha. 8. Health-related millennium development goals in India: realities and challenges/K.P. Vipin Chandran. 9. Economic valuation of impact of air pollution in Manali industrial area of Chennai, Tamil Nadu/J. Sacratees. 10. Availability of ICDS facilities and its association with child nutrition in rural India/Anand Parihar and Usha Ram. III. Equity and health: 11. Rich-poor divide in health status in India/Manju S. Nair. 12. Infant mortality in India: dimensions of development/Ankush Agrawal. 13. Gender discrimination in healthcare/Saumya Chand. 14. Helath of the workers in plantation economy: a study of cardamom plantations in Kerala/Anns Issac. 15. Poverty and human development in India: an inter-state analysis/K.V. Vinesh Kumar. 16. Refugee health care: policy options and strategic directions/G. Sathis Kumar and S. Ramaswamy. IV. Health status and health security: 17. Population ageing in India: emerging health issues/K.E. Vaidyanathan. 18. Ensuring health services for the poor through sustainable micro-insurance: experience of BISWA in Sambalpur, Orissa/B.S. Mishra. 19. Health status of elderly in old-age homes/V. Vijayalakshmi and K. Anbu. 20. The politics of health security: challenges of neo-liberal state: An Indian perspective/Sabu Thomas. Index.
Improvements in health status as well as health care are treated as integrated components of the development process. Since health is a product of multivariate production process in which medical care is just one of the many inputs the impact of the state intervention on health status depends on its overall socio-economic policies. Rapid urbanization industrialization changes in lifestyle and consequent hike in risk factors such as tobacco use unhealthy diet and physical inactivity caused for increase in global burden of chronic illness. There are also overriding environmental and mental health issues that cannot be overlooked. The double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases thus presents a formidable challenge on the already resource-constrained health systems of different countries. The withdrawal of public sector from the health care segment has further worsened the situation of patients. These multifaceted problems call for a development approach on basic health care issues.
The present volume covers different aspects and issues related to health and development with empirical evidence. It is an initiative to address the spatial and social issues connected with health and development and to draw the attention of government functionaries health care planners and administrators. The main themes that the present volume focuses are: health care system and policy health and development equity and health and health status and health security. The book promises to be of immense help to all concerned scholars academicians students policy makers health care planners and administrators.
