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Health Beyond Medicine
Some Reflections on the Politics and Sociology of Health in India
Introduction
This book integrates the concept of healthcare with larger social determinants such as caste, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity. It presents a history of the development of health services, discusses the recommendations of the landmark report of the Bhore Committee that laid the foundations of the public health services in independent India, and traces the evolution of this system through social, economic, and political structures. The subject matter of this book also includes:
Topics Covered
The Play of Religion in the Delivery of Rural Health Care
Of the Relationship Between Population and Development
Pay for Performance Programmes in Health Care
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