LIST OF FIGURES vii LIST OF TABLES viii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY x 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Research Objective 2 1.3 Research Questions 2 1.4Scope and Limitations 3 1.5 Structure of report 3 2. MEDICAL FACILITY, URBAN POOR AND ACCESSIBILITY LINKS IN LITERATURE 6 2.1 Healthcare in India 6 2.1.1 Public Healthcare 7 2.1.2 Private sector, NGO‟s and PPP in health care 8 2.2 Urban Poor 8 2.3 Accessibility to health care for poor 9 2.4 Summary 11 3. THEORY OF ACCESSIBILITY 12 3.1 Concept of Accessibility 12 3.1.1 Measures of Accessibility 14 3.2 Similar researches referred 18 3.3 Summary 19 4. CASE STUDY: RAJKOT 20 4.1 Introduction 20 4.2 Demography 21 4.3 Slums 22 4.4 Health care infrastructure 23 4.5 Summary 24 5. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND DATA PROCESSING 25 5.1 Research design 25 5.2 Data analysis methodology 25 5.4 Data Requirement 27 Accessibility to health care facilities for urban poor vi 5.5 Data preparations 28 5.5.1 Demand-Population 28 5.5.2 Supply- Services 29 5.5.3 Road Network 31 5.6 Summary 32 6. ACCESSIBILITY ANALYSIS – GIS BASED 33 6.1 Proximity count analysis 33 6.2 Location Profile 39 6.3 Main Findings 41 6.4 Summary 42 7. ACCESSIBILITY ANALYSIS – FIELD STUDY 43 7.1 Formulation of survey 43 7.2 Slum details 43 7.2.1 Slum 1: Laxminagar 44 7.2.2 Slum 2: Manharpara 48 7.2.3 Slum 3: Sagarnagar 52 7.3 Comparative analysis of the three slums 56 7.4 Rechecking the accessibility 61 7.5 Main Findings 63 7.6 Summary 64 8. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 65 8.1 Conclusions 65 8.2 Recommendations 66 9. ANNEXURE 71