Critical Reflections on Health Services Development in India: The Teleology of Disorder
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Critical Reflections on Health Services Development in India: The Teleology of Disorder
By (Author) Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Lexington Books
2nd July 2014
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government policies
Social welfare, social policy and social services
Health, illness or addiction: social aspects
362.10954
Physical Properties
Hardback
180
Width 163mm, Height 234mm, Spine 18mm
404g
Description
The book undertakes a critical examination of health service development in India and provides an explanation of its underdevelopment. It analyzes the trajectory of health services development in India and dissects the roles of various actors which shape that process viz. the State, civil society, and the people. It helps you to arrive at a less ambiguous analytical paradigm regarding a complex scenario discernible in a country like India where diversities across regions and states make it difficult to advance a pan Indian framework, strategy, or theory.
Reviews
A must-read book for health managers and policy makers which clearly, cogently, and critically describes health service development in India. The concepts are so clearly illustrated based on evidence and experience; a step forward in public health discourse and a one-stop book for students and researchers. -- Kumudu Wijewardene, Sri Jayawardenepura University
Author Bio
Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar is chief fellow at Santhigiri Social Research Institute. He taught public health at Jawaharlal Nehru University for twenty-eight years and has been DAAD guest professor at Heidelberg University. He is the author of Ecology and Health: A Systems Approach and co-editor of Public Health and the Poverty of Reforms: The South Asian Predicament.
