Health Providers in India (eBook, ePUB)

On the Frontlines of Change
Redaktion: Sheikh, Kabir; George, Asha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together contributions featuring research, comment and analysis on Indian doctors, nurses, public health workers, counsellors, traditional practitioners and homecare providers. It seeks to appreciate India's landscape of healthcare provision, and the potential roles of frontline health providers in development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136516825
• Artikelnr.: 38404419

Autorenporträt

Kabir Sheikh is Senior Lecturer, Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi. Asha George is Health Specialist, Community Based Approaches, Policy and Evidence Unit, Health Section, Programme Division, UNICEF, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
Introduction: India's Health Providers: Diverse Frontiers, Disparate
Fortunes by Kabir Sheikh and Asha George Part I: Government Health Workers:
Uneasy at the Bottom Chapter 1. Government Rural Health Assistants as
Social Beings by Asha George Chapter 2. The Midwifery Role of the Auxiliary
Nurse Midwife by Dileep Mavalankar, Kranti Vora and Bharati Sharma Chapter
3. Dilemmas and Conflicts of HIV Counsellors in VCTCs by Akhila Vasan and
Jayashree Ramakrishna Part II: Doctors: Vexed Relationship with the Public
Good Chapter 4. Public Sector Doctors in an Era of Commercialization by
Rama V. Baru Chapter 5. Working with Private Practitioners on a Public
Health Intervention by Risha Hess, Saswati Sen and Pritpal Marjara Chapter
6. Understanding Practitioners' Responses to National Policy Guidelines by
Kabir Sheikh and John D. H. Porter Chapter 7. The Dynamics of Medicos'
Anti-Reservation Protests of 2006 by V. Venkatesan Part III: Traditional
and Homecare Providers: The Edge of Legitimacy Chapter 8. The Community
Role of Indigenous Healers by Madhura Lohokare and Bhargavi V. Davar
Chapter 9. Traditional Orthopaedic Practitioners' Place in Contemporary
Health by Unnikrishnan P. M., Lokesh Kumar H. P. and Darshan Shankar
Chapter 10. The Critical Role of Family Care Providers in HIV/AIDS by
Shilpa Karvande, Vidula Purohit, Karina Kielmann, Rajendra Kale and Sheela
Rangan Part IV: Adapting, Transforming: Personal Experiences in
Professional Spaces Chapter 11. Sexual Harassment of Women Health Worker by
Paramita Chaudhuri Chapter 12. Gender and Health Training of Male
Multipurpose Wokers by Anagha Pradhan, Renu Khanna and Korrie de Koning
Four Poems by Gieve Patel About the Editors Notes on Contributors Index