Lexington Books
Pages: 180
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-7391-9206-1 • Hardback • July 2014 • $98.00 • (£75.00)
978-0-7391-9207-8 • eBook • July 2014 • $93.00 • (£72.00)
Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar is chief fellow at Santhigiri Social Research Institute. He taught public health at Jawaharlal Nehru University for twenty-eight years and has been DAAD guest professor at Heidelberg University. He is the author of Ecology and Health: A Systems Approach and co-editor of Public Health and the Poverty of Reforms: The South Asian Predicament.
PrefaceChapter 1 Introduction: Health Services and the Domains of disorderChapter 2 Grappling with delivery of health services: Roots and Off-shoots Chapter 3 Reforms and their formsChapter 4 Centrality of Decentralization and marginalization of the peopleChapter 5 Civilizing the Civil society and civilians: Old bottles and new medicinesChapter 6 Disorder defined: The homogenization process
A must-read book for health managers and policy makers which clearly, cogently, and critically describes health service development in India. The concepts are so clearly illustrated based on evidence and experience; a step forward in public health discourse and a one-stop book for students and researchers.
— Kumudu Wijewardene, Sri Jayawardenepura University