Public health in India : critical reflections
Qadeer, Imrana
Public health in India : critical reflections - Delhi Daanish Books 2011 - xii,439p. - Critial Public Health Series No.1 Ed. by K.R.Nayar & Rama V. Baru .
CONTENTS Abbreviations vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Part I: Knowledge and Pedagogy in Critical Public Health 1 Political Economy of Knowledge: A Case of Systems Research in Primary Health Care in India 3 Beyond Medicine: An Analysis of the Health Status of the Indian People 29 Critique of Methods and Science: The Role of Objectivity in the Science of Public Health and Health Policy 49 Health Services System in India: An Expression of Socio-Economic Inequalities 61 Politics of Pedagogy in Public Health 93 Part II: The Health Status of Indian People: Critical Reflections131 Contextualizing Plague: A Reconstruction and an Analysis 133 Paralytic Poliomyelitis in a Rural Area of North India 169 Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective 179 Part 111: Policies and Planning for Health in India 219 Health Planning in India: Some Lessons from the Past 221 The National Population Policy: Problems and Possibilities 253 Shrinking Spaces 273 Black Death, White I .ies 289 Our Historical Legacy in MCH Programmes 307 Part IV: Health and Ill-health in a Neo-liberal World 335 The World Development Report 1993: The Brave New World of Primary Health Care 337 Continuities and Discontinuities in Public Health: The Indian Experience 355 Impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes on Concepts in Public Health 381 Challenges for Public Health in Contemporary South Asia 405 Index 429
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Public health in India : critical reflections - Delhi Daanish Books 2011 - xii,439p. - Critial Public Health Series No.1 Ed. by K.R.Nayar & Rama V. Baru .
CONTENTS Abbreviations vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xi Part I: Knowledge and Pedagogy in Critical Public Health 1 Political Economy of Knowledge: A Case of Systems Research in Primary Health Care in India 3 Beyond Medicine: An Analysis of the Health Status of the Indian People 29 Critique of Methods and Science: The Role of Objectivity in the Science of Public Health and Health Policy 49 Health Services System in India: An Expression of Socio-Economic Inequalities 61 Politics of Pedagogy in Public Health 93 Part II: The Health Status of Indian People: Critical Reflections131 Contextualizing Plague: A Reconstruction and an Analysis 133 Paralytic Poliomyelitis in a Rural Area of North India 169 Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective 179 Part 111: Policies and Planning for Health in India 219 Health Planning in India: Some Lessons from the Past 221 The National Population Policy: Problems and Possibilities 253 Shrinking Spaces 273 Black Death, White I .ies 289 Our Historical Legacy in MCH Programmes 307 Part IV: Health and Ill-health in a Neo-liberal World 335 The World Development Report 1993: The Brave New World of Primary Health Care 337 Continuities and Discontinuities in Public Health: The Indian Experience 355 Impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes on Concepts in Public Health 381 Challenges for Public Health in Contemporary South Asia 405 Index 429
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362.10954 / QAD