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This book attempts to present to a kaleidoscopic scenario in present India and its important dimensions. special focus has been given to the fast emerging health perspectives in the first part the book. Many papers in this book concentrate on women’s health, gender-discrimination of girl child and fertility issues which are essential to India. Second part essentially concentrates on heath among the tribals, which are the most neglected sections by heath care system in India. Two of the papers in the section fours on HIV/AIDS in highly prevalent states in India and implication of the cost of the total health care system in India. Third spells out some of the approaches to tackle the mass scale heath problems in the country. The first papers in third part advocates ‘tacking malnutrition as an essential of women’s health and empowerment programme’. Two papers concentrate on the application and practice of alternative medicine, i.e., ayurveda, for treating asthama and diabetes, which are rampant in India in accounting to 60-70% of the deaths. In terms of costs, and reach ability, the ayurvedic prescription appear to be the only possible alternative for the costly modern medicine. Other papers focus on stress coping at individual level and in organization life. The next paper asks the fundamental question-‘why does the primary health system fail?’ and spells out some precious insights measures for redeeming the PHCs from their limitations. Two papres focus the issue of disability which last paper highlight the importance equipping dais for improving healthcare. In short, the book presents fragments of the total vision of health in India and may be of special interest all the health-policy makers, professionals, hospital-administrators students and activists of primary community healthcare
ISBN : 9788183871563
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Pages : 350
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