Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala write by Megha Jacob. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the significance of local governments in public healthcare systems in developing countries, particularly India. It considers a new model of public health delivery system in the Indian state of Kerala, which is unique in achieving a fairly high level of human and social development with a relatively low level of economic development. Unlike most Indian states, Kerala has devolved the control of health service management to local governments, though the state government still has administrative powers, resulting in a system of dual responsibilities. Transfer of public health control from state government to local governments has seen an increase in the participation of the local community in public health delivery management. Based on a field study conducted in Keralan districts, this book explains the scope for mobilising local resources for the implementation of public health projects under local government, discussing a unique model of co-production between the government and civil society that can improve health services, efficiency and equity, leading to better health outcomes. As such, this study will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the areas of health, local governance and decentralised planning.
Health and Medical Care
Health and Medical Care - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health and Medical Care write by N. H. Antia. This book was released on 2000. Health and Medical Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With reference to India.
Health Sector, State and Decentralised Institutions in India
Health Sector, State and Decentralised Institutions in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health Sector, State and Decentralised Institutions in India write by Shailender Kumar Hooda. This book was released on 2021-11-29. Health Sector, State and Decentralised Institutions in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the transition in Indian healthcare system since independence and contributes to the ongoing debate within development and institutional economics on the approaches towards reform in the public health system. The institutional reform perspective focuses on examining the effective utilisation of allotted resources and improvements in delivery through decentralisation in governance by ensuring higher participation of elected governments and local communities in politics, policymaking and delivery of health services. It discusses the economic (resource) reforms to explain the relevance and expansion of state interventionism along with its influence on the health sector, accountability and allocative efficiency. The author also explores the connections between neoliberal thought and privatisation in health sector, and examines the greater role of insurance-based financing and their implications for health service access and delivery. The book offers ways to address long-standing systemic and structural problems that confront the Indian healthcare system. Based on large-scale surveys and diverse empirical data on the Indian economy, this book will be of great interest to researchers, students and teachers of health economics, governance and institutional economics, political economy, sociology, public policy, regional studies and development studies. This will be useful to policymakers, health economists, social scientists, public health experts and professionals, and government and nongovernment institutions.
The Commodification of Health Care in Kerala, South India
The Commodification of Health Care in Kerala, South India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Commodification of Health Care in Kerala, South India write by Caroline H. Wilson. This book was released on 2010. The Commodification of Health Care in Kerala, South India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In India, alongside Information Technology, health care has become a leading sector in the country's development as a 'knowledge economy' (World Bank 2005). One of the major achievements and beacons of economic reform is the growth of some of the most technologically advanced hospitals in the world. This thesis examines the social processes shaping the expansion of the private health care system in the state of Kerala, South India, where large corporate hospitals and 'super-speciality' medicine have spread throughout urban and many rural areas. It explores the intersections between the local and the global, as the health system becomes the major driver of industrial development, unevenly linking the local health care system to the global marketplace for technologies, health care professionals and patients. It examines the three faces of the health care system in Kerala - as a knowledge industry and route to social mobility for the middle classes, in particular doctors and nurses; secondly, as a consumer economy, as people prioritise spending on health care and shop for treatment in the urban marketplace; and finally as a moral economy, as people develop high levels of dependency on doctors, hospitals and technologies in the hope of receiving good health care. The ethnography is set in Malabar, Northern Kerala, where the expansion of private health care has been financed by remittances from migration to the Arabian Gulf countries. The thesis examines the influence of migration and economic reforms on local ecologies of health and health care; the impact of the globalisation of trade in health services in the developing world; the relationship between the private health care system and the middle classes in South Asia; and the role of markets in the delivery of health services. Based on 18 months of participant observation across the urban and rural health care market with local communities of doctors and patients, it examines how doctors and patients adjust to a changing ecology and economy of health care.
International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care
International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care write by Libby Sallnow. This book was released on 2013-07-03. International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach. The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients as they transition between home based care and inpatient services – relies on the principles of health promotion and community development both to ensure services are available and importantly appropriate for patients’ needs. In developing contexts, where hospitals and hospices may be inaccessible, a public health approach provides not only continuity of care but greater access to good end of life care. This book provides both a historical and conceptual overview whilst offering practical case examples from affluent and developing contexts, in a range of clinical settings. Finally, it draws together research-based guidelines for future practice. Essential reading for public health researchers and practitioners with an interest in end of life care and global health as well as those involved in developing palliative care provision, International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care is the first volume to present an overview of theory and practice in this emerging field.
