Health Dynamics and Marginalised Communities
Contents: Contributors. Introduction. I. Conceptual and constitutional issues: 1. Health concerns in India/Mohan Advani and Mohammad Akram. 2. Judicial response to health care/Mihir Desai. 3. Right to life: a prerogative of the wealthy?/Sujata Krishnamurthi. 4. HIV/AIDS and socio-historical inequality: an explanation/Vijay Kumar Yadavendu. II. Health, disease and social structures: 5. Tribal health problems: some social science perspectives/B.V. Babu and Y.S. Kusuma. 6. Culture and health care: an interface/Madhu Nagla. 7. Demographic determinants of tribal health in Rajasthan/B.L. Nagda. 8. Tribal health in India/Tribhu Nath Dubey and Supriya Seth. 9. Sexually transmitted diseases among the tribal women of reproductive span/Chakrapani Upadhyay. 10. Sex behaviour, sexually transmitted diseases and tribal Rajasthan/Mohammad Akram. 11. Socio-economic profile of sexually transmitted diseases patients in Southern Rajasthan/Vani Verma. 12. Sociology of medicine for the tribals/Balveer Singh. 13. Our ancient wisdom: the Panacea of all Maladies (with special reference to sexually transmitted diseases)/N.K. Jha. II. Health expenditure and insurance: 14. Health seeking behaviour and health expenditure in tribal areas of Rajasthan: results for policy initiatives/P.R. Sodani. 15. Micro health insurance: NGO experience in Gujarat/Akash Acharya. Index.
"Despite the long standing commitment to "Health for All", enormous health anomalies continue to prevail among Indian masses. Problems related to judicious distribution of healthcare facilities are many: unequal access to healthcare facilities, limited attention to preventive methods, and profit orientation of the agencies involved are few among them. Rural and tribal communities, being the most marginalised in developmental context, are the worst victims of such Maladies.
The limited choices in maintaining sustainable health conditions in Indian communities pose great challenges to the democratic fabric of the nation-state. The articles in the present volume examine various issues related to health dynamism of Indian communities in their totality and propose to furnish remedial suggestions in contemporary context. The book will be of utmost interest not only for the social scientists and activists but also for health practitioners and policy makers." (jacket)
