Equity and Access Health Care Studies in India

This volume provides a holistic narrative that explains the politics of health care access in terms of distribution, utilization, and outcomes as well as the context in which health inequalities are reproduced which is critical not only to scholarly understanding of health care but to informing the development of health care policy in India at a critical juncture.

About the author

N Purendra Prasad is Professor at the department of sociology and has been working at University of Hyderabad since 2000. His research interests include political economy of health, agrarian studies, development and urban studies. He is on the academic and ethical advisory boards of several universities and institutions in India.

Amar Jesani is an independent consultant - researcher and teacher - in bioethics and public health. He is one of the founders of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society and its journal, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) and is presently its editor. He is also one of the founding trustees of the Anusandhan Trust, which manages the health research institute, CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes) in Mumbai, and the health action institute, SATHI in Pune since 2010.

Summary

This volume provides a holistic narrative that explains the politics of health care access in terms of distribution, utilization, and outcomes as well as the context in which health inequalities are reproduced which is critical not only to scholarly understanding of health care but to informing the development of health care policy in India at a critical juncture.

Product details

• Assisted by: Purendra Prasad (Editor), Amar Jesani (Editor), Purendra (Professor Prasad (Editor), Amar (Independent Researcher and Editor Jesani (Editor), Sujata Patel (Editor), Sujata Patel (Editor of the series)
• Authors: Purendra Prasad
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.07.2018
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
• EAN: 9780199482160
• ISBN: 978-0-19-948216-0
• Pages: 408
• Dimensions (packing): 14.7 x 22.1 x 3.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 599 g
• Series: Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society; Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society; Oxford India Studies in Contem
• Subjects: Sociology; MEDICAL / Public Health; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery