Providing Health Services to All : Problems and Prospects
Contents: Preface. 1. Is there exists health equity and social justice in the process of globalization? some evidences and policy measures/D. David Rajasekar and S. Mookiah. 2. Role of ICT enabled communication system in effective health care and administration/S. Mookiah and D. David Rajasekar. 3. Managing service quality in Indian hospitals in an era of globalization: problems and prospects/C. Padmanaba Sivakumar, P. Govinda Reddy and A. Chandrasekaran. 4. Minding our health--an insight and inquiry of health among women academicians/S. Jaishree and Sudha Krishna Kumar. 5. Election manifestos on health: a discussion with reference to India\'s health status/L.T. Om Prakash and S. Alamelumangai. 6. Homogenising culture and globalising schizophrenia: globalisation, mass media and mental health/B.N. Shreekeerthy. 7. Social exclusion of Dalits and Adivasis: social determinants in health care/Sanjay Kumar Chaudhary. 8. Impact of urbanization on women\'s health/ Radha Murugesan and Uma Maheswari A. 9. Impact of urbanization on health/J. Victoira Jayarani. 10. Legal provisions for health care in India: its impact on rural development (with special reference to the state of Mizoram/H.S. Lalbiakengi. 11. Impact of urbanization on health/B. Sujatha. 12. Rural women\'s health/J. Raja Mohamed, T. Geetha and I. Singaram. 13. Occupational health and safety measures/P.N. Bhagyadevi. 14. Community participation in health care: an experience on community based palliative care system in Waynad district, Kerala/Sunu, P.V. and C. Satheeshkumar. 15. Making the right to health a reality: judicial strategies for effective implementation/G. Rajasekar. 16. Health care and legal system/S.P. Subashni. 17. Health care through law with special reference to food and safety act/B. Venugopal and K. Srilata. 18. Preventive health in India--an assessment to the global context/N.M. Nilofer Nisha. 19. Occupational health and safety measures/A.F. Annie Raja. 20. Water and health/S. Lalitha and Fatima Vasanth. 21. Effects of globalization on health practices/J. Josephine.
In the historic event of Alma Ata declaration in 1978 the World Health Organization (WHO) set the task of achieving \'health for all\' by the year 2000. This landmark date come and gone and the hopes for health for all has not been achieved. For others it was a vision thwarted by lack of political will, global economic recession, Third World debts and the greed of the haves over the have notes. Perhaps the time scale was just too short. But we also need to question whether health for all will ever be an achievable goal, whether we yet have a shared understanding of priorities or even a clear vision of what health is? Part of the difficulty for health promotion has been that there are no straightforward answers to such questions.
This book explores the mission of the World Heath Organization (WHO) through explaining the nature of health in India and around the World. It takes an effort to bring out the relationship between liberalization, globalization, privatization and state of health care in India and World as well.
