Health Economics : Issues and Challenges
Contents: Foreword. I. Health economics: an investment approach: 1. Pure investment approach to demand for health in India: an econometric analysis of NSSO 52nd round household level data/A. Balasubramanian. 2. Major trends in health care, occupational safety and expenditure in India/R. Balasubramaniyan. 3. Health care service and expenditure in India: an overview/A. Myilsamy. 4. Health insurance: an investment approach/T.M. Saravana Kumar and A. Sangamithra. 5. Health economics in medical education/Shreyasi Sharma and P.T. Subramanian. II. Case study and cost effective analysis on communicable diseases: 6. Aids awareness in rural women and the role of herbs in their cure/Allirani Thiyagarajan and Supriya Arulkumaran and Shanmuga Sundari. 7. A case study and cost effective analysis on Malaria in children up to the age of 5 years over Chennai city/V. Renuka Devi and Preethi Mohan. III. Health care related issues in developing countries: 8. Empowerment: key to total employee involvement with reference to pharmaceutical company in Chennai/N.A. Anand, A. Beulah Kavitha and S. Sumitha Benet Hilda. 9. Emerging scenario of health care issues in developing countries/Aysha Begum, Jamuna Rani and Janaki. 10. Economic evaluation of health care in India/A. Kalaimathi and P. Devi. 11. The progress of health care supply in India/D. Gopalsamy and M. Raju. 12. Occupational health: dimensions and issues/K. Kalaiarasi. 13. Demand for health care services in India/A. Sangamithra and S.C. Karpagavalle. 14. Economic benefits of health insurance/Leela Bhaskar. 15. Lending a womb-the story of surrogate mothers/J. Maheswari. 16. Beneficiary assessment of health care services: a case study of Palakkad Municipality/A. Sangamithra, Manju Varghese and Divya H. 17. Health scenario in India/S. Natchathira Jothi. 18. Breast cancer risk assessment among the selected female teachers/T. Poongodi Vijayakumar, R. Sivapriya, Surya M. Kottaram and P. Nazni. 19. Medical tourism in India: a case study of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd/Rashmi Subbiah and B. Shyamala. 20. A study on picture archival communication system (PACS) in hospitals with special reference to GKNM hospital, Coimbatore: an overview/B. Rekha and S. Porkodi. 21. A comparative study of Government laboratories and private laboratories in providing health care services to society/V. Renuka Devi and M.K. Rukmini. 22. Health insurance in India : prognosis and prospects/A. Shan Pareeth. 23. Yoga for health--an insight into Vethathin Maharishi\'s principles/B. Shyamal and Rashmi Subbiah. 24. Health economics: issues and perspectives/S.N. Sukumar. 25. Health care related issues in developing countries: a comparison with the developed world/V. Renuka Devi and Teresa Paul. IV. Health care and human resource development: 26. Health care and human resource development in India/V. Arivazhagan. 27. Human development and economic growth through child-investment/J. Jacintha Maria Florence. 28. Health infrastructure and attainment and human development in India/N. Jaganathan. 29. Domestic health care scenario and the role of HRD in it/D. Lakshmi. 30. Effective management of human resources through enhanced work culture/S. Malini. 31. Economics of health: health is wealth/P. Ragu. 32. Issues in economic growth and human resource development with reference to health care/D. Rudrappan. 33. Decision making criteria for health manpower planning/Ruksana Banu A. 34. Health care and human resource development/J. Sakina. 35. A study on determinants on demand for health care treatment in rural households/A. Sugithra Rani, Vaithianathan and A. Vadivelu. 36. Human resource--expected hazards and required measures: a study/Subaida Begam. 37. Health economics: Issues and challenges/Swami Prakash Srivastava and Bhawana Saini. 38. An approach to classifying human resources constraints to attaining health related millennium development goals/D. Vinoth Kumar and J. Adhiyamaan. V. Empowerment of poor women in improving the health of the family, particularly in rural India: 39. Empowerment of poor women in improving the health of the family, particularly in rural India/P. Dhiraviam. 40. Empowerment of poor women in improving the health of the family, particularly in rural India: a case study with reference to Paachal Village in North Arcot Ambedkat District/M. Gowhar Jhan. 41. Empowerment of poor women in improving the health of the family, particularly in rural India/S.V. Lakshmipathy and Kumaraj. 42. Nutritional profile and job stress of female agricultural labourers/T. Poongodi Vijayakumar, M. Rajeswari and P. Nazni. 43. Health problems of women agricultural labourers in Orathanadu Taluk, Thanjavur District/A. Kalaimathi and Santosh Jain. 44. Strategies and women empowerment/V.M. Suneela Shyam. VI. Health scenario in Tamilnadu: 45. The health scenario in Tamil Nadu: an assessment/A. Chandrasekaran. 46. Welfare measures adapted for the upliftment of landless agricultural labourers in Tamilnadu/M. Chelladurai and R. Subramanian. 47. Health care related issues in developing countries with reference to Tamil Nadu/A. Kalaimathy and Lakshmi Krishnan. 48. Health awareness in rural areas with reference to Walajapet block/K. Malathi. 49. Trends in health development in Tamil Nadu: problems and prospects/R. Natarajan. 50. A study on medico-legal cases in Coimbatore private hospitals/R. Punitha and B. Sudha. 51. Health scenario in Tamilnadu: an overview: a female infanticide and its implications/V.M. Suneela Shyam. 52. A study on strategic management in hospitals/A. Rajamani and S. Tava Sooriya. 53. A study on risk and uncertainties in hospital administration: with special reference to private hospitals, Coimbatore/L. Vijailakshmi and Rachel Nancy Philip. 54. The major childhood illnesses and diseases: a case study of a tertiary care hospital, Chennai/T. Vijayalakshmi. 55. Health care services and health problems: a case study in Pallayampudur Primary health centre in Dharmapuri District/A. Xavier Susai Raj. Index.
Health is a major area of concern for social planners across world. In developing countries, Health Economics has emerged as a key area of research due to the close linkage it has with welfare.
Health Economics continues to kindle interest in the Academicians, medical researchers, economists and health care administrators. In pursuance of the rich development in this discipline, the seminar on "Health Economics-issues and Challenges" was organized with the objective of highlighting the importance of health related issues in research and policy-making.
By providing and insight into the benefits of investment in health the seminar has drawn the attention of the policy-makers and experts in the field to make recommendations on various aspects of health. This book contains 58 papers contributed by scholars in the field of Economics and Health. (jacket)
