Health Sector Reforms in India
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction: health sector reforms in India: issues, experiences and trends/Girish Kumar. 2. Decentralizing health care delivery system in West Bengal: a review of recent initiatives/Buddhadeb Ghosh. 3. Health sector reforms in Kerala: decentralization initiatives and the lessons/Joy Elamon. 4. Access to medicines in public health care: lessons from Tamil Nadu/N. Lalitha. 5. Health sector reforms in Orissa: some experiences/Subrata Kundu. 6. The myth of the Mitanin: political constraints on structural reforms in health care in Chhattisgarh/Binayak Sen. 7. User fee in public health care institutions/Abusaleh Shariff and Subrata K. Mondal. 8. Public hospital reforms in Madhya Pradesh: perceptions and trends/Girish Kumar. 9. Making of a primary health centre: the SEWA Rural\'s experiment of NGO-GO Partnership/Pankaj Shah, Lata Desai and Shobha Shah. 10. For whom the reform tolls?/Alain Vaguet. 11. Ideology and health sector reforms: a state-level analysis/Rama V. Baru. Index.
"The health sector reforms initially touted as the World Bank\'s prescription and hence roundly rejected by the concerned scholars, have slowly but gradually stated gaining grounds in India. Indeed, some of the reform measures adopted in a few states had preceded 1991 economic reforms.
The objective of this book is to capture the various strands of reforms which had started unfolding since the late 1980s itself. Following the case study method, this volume also looks into the functioning of Rogi Kalyan Samities (RKS) and lady health volunteers, both adapted as critical components of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), a flagship programme of the UPA Government which aims at injecting a new life to the public health care system by strengthening the health infrastructure and providing a functional link between the community and the hospitals.
Not only does this volume draw on experiences of some of the states but by offering empirical evidences on some of the successful initiatives it enriches our understanding of the impact of reform measures." (jacket)
