Equity and Access
Health Care Studies in India
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Publication date:
01/05/2018
Hardback
432 pages
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ISBN:
9780199482160
Publication date:
01/05/2018
Hardback
432 pages
Part of Oxford India Studies In Contemporary Society
Edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani
The volume explains how state and market forces have progressively heightened the iniquitous health care system and the process through which substantial burden of meeting health care needs has fallen on the individual households. Twenty-eight scholars comprising of social scientists, medical experts, public health experts, policy makers, health activists, legal experts, and gender specialists have delved into the politics of access for different classes, castes, gender, and other categories to contribute to a new field ‘health care studies’ in this volume.
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Part of Oxford India Studies In Contemporary Society
Edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani
Description
Equity and Access attempts to unravel the complex narrative of why inequities in the health sector are growing and access to basic health care is worsening, and the underlying forces that contribute to this situation. It draws attention to the way globalization has influenced India’s development trajectory as healthcare issues have assumed significant socio-economic and political significance in contemporary India. The volume explains how state and market forces have progressively heightened the iniquitous health care system and the process through which substantial burden of meeting health care needs has fallen on the individual households. Twenty-eight scholars comprising social scientists, medical experts, public health experts, policy makers, health activists, legal experts, and gender specialists have delved into the politics of access for different classes, castes, gender, and other categories to contribute to a new field ‘health care studies’ in this volume. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach within a broader political-economy framework, the volume is useful for understanding power relations within social groups and complex organizational systems.
About the Editors
Purendra Prasad is professor and head of the Department of Sociology at University of Hyderabad, India. He has published extensively on questions of health inequalities, agrarian relations, caste-class dynamics, forced migration, and urban transformations.
Amar Jesani is an independent consultant, researcher, and teacher of bioethics and public health. He is one of the founders of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society and the editor of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.
Part of Oxford India Studies In Contemporary Society
Edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Health Inequities in India—The Larger Dimensions
Purendra Prasad
I STATE, MARKET, AND HEALTH CARE
1. State, Community, and Primary Health Care: Empowering or Disempowering Discourses?
Ritu Priya
2. Health Care Reforms: Do They Ensure Social Protection for the Labouring Poor?
Purendra Prasad
3. Medical–Industrial Complex: Trends in Corporatization of Health Services
Rama V. Baru
4. Social Roots of Medical Education
Neha Madhiwalla
5. Medical Education and Basic Health Care: Forging Connections
Anand Zachariah
II PHARMACEUTICALS AND EXPERIMENTATION
6. Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Pharmaceuticals
Amit Sengupta
7. Access to Pharmaceuticals: Role of State, Industry, and Market
S. Srinivasan and Malini Aisola
8. Structure, Organization, and Knowledge Production of Clinical Trial Industry
Roger Jeffery, Gerard Porter, Salla Sariola, Amar Jesani, and Deapica Ravindran
9. Body as ‘Resource’ in Surrogacy and Bio-Medical Research: New Frontiers and Dilemmas
Sarojini Nadimpally and Vrinda Marwah
III EQUITY ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE—GENDER, CASTE, DISABILITY, AND VIOLENCE
10. Health, Disability, and Equity: Conversations among Bodies, Discourses, and Law
Renu Addlakha
11. Caste, Class, and Gender on the Margins of the State: An Ethnographic Study among Community Health
Workers
Madhumita Biswal
12. Legitimizing Violence: A Narrative of Sexual Health
Asima Jena
13. Violence against Women as a Health Care Issue: Perceptions and Approaches
Sangeeta Rege and Padma Bhate-Deosthali
IV RIGHT TO HEALTH AND UNIVERSAL HEALTH STRATEGIES
14. Universal Health Coverage: How Viable?
K. Srinath Reddy and Manu Raj Mathur
15. Kerala’s Early Experience: Moving towards Universal Health Coverage
Sunil Nandraj and Devaki Nambiar
16. A Financing Strategy for Universal Access to Health Care: Maharashtra Model
Ravi Duggal
17. The Right to Health: A Winding Road to Actualization
Kajal Bhardwaj, Veena Johari, and Vivek Divan
Index
Editors and Contributors
Part of Oxford India Studies In Contemporary Society
Edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani
Part of Oxford India Studies In Contemporary Society
Edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani
Review
‘The deep neglect of health care in public policy, democratic politics, and social-science research is a puzzling feature of contemporary India. This wide-ranging collection of insightful essays, written by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, is a valuable step towards addressing this gap. The sustained focus on equity and ethics is particularly welcome, as are the concluding reflections on universal health care.’
—Jean Drèze
Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India
‘Public health is a collective vision of health of the people. Woven within the fabric of society, however, are a number of contradictions born out of the interlacing of caste, class, gender, and technology on the one hand and the institutions of state, market, and civil society on the other hand. This book offers a judicious selection of these and a range of provocative perspectives on the challenges of capitalist globalization. Anyone trying to break through the hold of inequity on health care in India would find the book interesting and useful.’
—Imrana Qadeer
Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Part of Oxford India Studies In Contemporary Society
Edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani
Description
Equity and Access attempts to unravel the complex narrative of why inequities in the health sector are growing and access to basic health care is worsening, and the underlying forces that contribute to this situation. It draws attention to the way globalization has influenced India’s development trajectory as healthcare issues have assumed significant socio-economic and political significance in contemporary India. The volume explains how state and market forces have progressively heightened the iniquitous health care system and the process through which substantial burden of meeting health care needs has fallen on the individual households. Twenty-eight scholars comprising social scientists, medical experts, public health experts, policy makers, health activists, legal experts, and gender specialists have delved into the politics of access for different classes, castes, gender, and other categories to contribute to a new field ‘health care studies’ in this volume. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach within a broader political-economy framework, the volume is useful for understanding power relations within social groups and complex organizational systems.
About the Editors
Purendra Prasad is professor and head of the Department of Sociology at University of Hyderabad, India. He has published extensively on questions of health inequalities, agrarian relations, caste-class dynamics, forced migration, and urban transformations.
Amar Jesani is an independent consultant, researcher, and teacher of bioethics and public health. He is one of the founders of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society and the editor of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.
Reviews
‘The deep neglect of health care in public policy, democratic politics, and social-science research is a puzzling feature of contemporary India. This wide-ranging collection of insightful essays, written by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, is a valuable step towards addressing this gap. The sustained focus on equity and ethics is particularly welcome, as are the concluding reflections on universal health care.’
—Jean Drèze
Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India
‘Public health is a collective vision of health of the people. Woven within the fabric of society, however, are a number of contradictions born out of the interlacing of caste, class, gender, and technology on the one hand and the institutions of state, market, and civil society on the other hand. This book offers a judicious selection of these and a range of provocative perspectives on the challenges of capitalist globalization. Anyone trying to break through the hold of inequity on health care in India would find the book interesting and useful.’
—Imrana Qadeer
Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Health Inequities in India—The Larger Dimensions
Purendra Prasad
I STATE, MARKET, AND HEALTH CARE
1. State, Community, and Primary Health Care: Empowering or Disempowering Discourses?
Ritu Priya
2. Health Care Reforms: Do They Ensure Social Protection for the Labouring Poor?
Purendra Prasad
3. Medical–Industrial Complex: Trends in Corporatization of Health Services
Rama V. Baru
4. Social Roots of Medical Education
Neha Madhiwalla
5. Medical Education and Basic Health Care: Forging Connections
Anand Zachariah
II PHARMACEUTICALS AND EXPERIMENTATION
6. Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Pharmaceuticals
Amit Sengupta
7. Access to Pharmaceuticals: Role of State, Industry, and Market
S. Srinivasan and Malini Aisola
8. Structure, Organization, and Knowledge Production of Clinical Trial Industry
Roger Jeffery, Gerard Porter, Salla Sariola, Amar Jesani, and Deapica Ravindran
9. Body as ‘Resource’ in Surrogacy and Bio-Medical Research: New Frontiers and Dilemmas
Sarojini Nadimpally and Vrinda Marwah
III EQUITY ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE—GENDER, CASTE, DISABILITY, AND VIOLENCE
10. Health, Disability, and Equity: Conversations among Bodies, Discourses, and Law
Renu Addlakha
11. Caste, Class, and Gender on the Margins of the State: An Ethnographic Study among Community Health
Workers
Madhumita Biswal
12. Legitimizing Violence: A Narrative of Sexual Health
Asima Jena
13. Violence against Women as a Health Care Issue: Perceptions and Approaches
Sangeeta Rege and Padma Bhate-Deosthali
IV RIGHT TO HEALTH AND UNIVERSAL HEALTH STRATEGIES
14. Universal Health Coverage: How Viable?
K. Srinath Reddy and Manu Raj Mathur
15. Kerala’s Early Experience: Moving towards Universal Health Coverage
Sunil Nandraj and Devaki Nambiar
16. A Financing Strategy for Universal Access to Health Care: Maharashtra Model
Ravi Duggal
17. The Right to Health: A Winding Road to Actualization
Kajal Bhardwaj, Veena Johari, and Vivek Divan
Index
Editors and Contributors
