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Equity and access : Health care studies in India / edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani.

Contributor(s): Series: Oxford India studies in contemporary societyPublisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 418 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199482160
  • 0199482160
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10954 PRA 23
LOC classification:
  • RA529 .E68 2018
Also issued online.
Contents:
Table of contents List of Tables and Figures Introduction : Health Inequities in India : The Larger Dimensions N Purendra Prasad Section I: State, Market, and Health Care 1. State, Community, and Primary Health Care: Disempowering Discourses? Ritu Priya 2. Health Care Reforms: Do they Ensure Social Protection for the Working Poor N Purendra Prasad 3. Medical Industrial Complex: Trends in Corporatisation of Health Services Rama V Baru. 4. Social Roots of Medical Education Neha Madhiwalla 5. Medical Education and Basic Health Care: Forging Connections Anand Zacharaiah Section II: Pharmaceuticals and Experimentation 6. Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Pharmaceuticals Amit Sengupta. 7. Access to Pharmaceuticals: Role of State, Industry, and Market S Srinivasan and Malini Aisola 8. Structure, Organization, and Knowledge Production of Clinical Trial Industry Roger Jeffery, Gerard Porter, Salla Sariola, Amar Jesani, and Deapica Ravindran 9. Body as `Resource' in Surrogacy and Bio-medical Research: New Frontiers and Dilemmas Sarojini Nadimpally and Vrinda Marwah. Section III: Equity Issues in Health Care - Gender, Caste, Disability and Violence 10. Health, Disability, and Equity: Conversation Among Bodies, Discourses, and Law Renu Addlakha. 11. Caste, Class, and Gender on the Margins of the State: An Ethnographic Study Among Community Health Workers Madhumita Biswal 12. Legitimising Violence: A Narrative of Sexual Health Asima Jena 13. Addressing Violence Against Women as a Health Care Issue: Perceptions and Approaches Sangeeta Rege and Padma Deosthali. Section IV: Right to Health and Universal Health Strategies 14. Universal Health Coverage: How Viable? K Srinath Reddy and Manu Raj Mathur 15. Kerala's Early Experience: Moving towards Universal Health Coverage Sunil Nandraj and Devaki Nambiar 16. A Financing Strategy for Universal Access to Health Care: Maharashtra Model Ravi Duggal. 17. The Right to Health: A Contested Journey Kajal Bharadwaj, Veena Johari and Vivek Divan Index
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Papers presented at the workshop held during March 6-7, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction : Health Inequities in India : The Larger Dimensions
N Purendra Prasad

Section I: State, Market, and Health Care

1. State, Community, and Primary Health Care: Disempowering Discourses?
Ritu Priya
2. Health Care Reforms: Do they Ensure Social Protection for the Working Poor
N Purendra Prasad
3. Medical Industrial Complex: Trends in Corporatisation of Health Services
Rama V Baru.
4. Social Roots of Medical Education
Neha Madhiwalla
5. Medical Education and Basic Health Care: Forging Connections
Anand Zacharaiah

Section II: Pharmaceuticals and Experimentation

6. Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Pharmaceuticals
Amit Sengupta.
7. Access to Pharmaceuticals: Role of State, Industry, and Market
S Srinivasan and Malini Aisola
8. Structure, Organization, and Knowledge Production of Clinical Trial Industry
Roger Jeffery, Gerard Porter, Salla Sariola, Amar Jesani, and Deapica Ravindran
9. Body as `Resource' in Surrogacy and Bio-medical Research: New Frontiers and Dilemmas
Sarojini Nadimpally and Vrinda Marwah.

Section III: Equity Issues in Health Care - Gender, Caste, Disability and Violence

10. Health, Disability, and Equity: Conversation Among Bodies, Discourses, and Law
Renu Addlakha.
11. Caste, Class, and Gender on the Margins of the State: An Ethnographic Study Among Community Health Workers
Madhumita Biswal
12. Legitimising Violence: A Narrative of Sexual Health
Asima Jena
13. Addressing Violence Against Women as a Health Care Issue: Perceptions and Approaches
Sangeeta Rege and Padma Deosthali.

Section IV: Right to Health and Universal Health Strategies

14. Universal Health Coverage: How Viable?
K Srinath Reddy and Manu Raj Mathur
15. Kerala's Early Experience: Moving towards Universal Health Coverage
Sunil Nandraj and Devaki Nambiar
16. A Financing Strategy for Universal Access to Health Care: Maharashtra Model
Ravi Duggal.
17. The Right to Health: A Contested Journey
Kajal Bharadwaj, Veena Johari and Vivek Divan

Index

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