India's Public Health Care Delivery: Policies for Universal Health Care

ISBN-13: 9789813341791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 496 str.

Sanjeev Kelkar

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Social and Philosophical Basis of Reorganization.- Chapter 2 Shortages of Doctors and Government Medical Colleges.- Chapter 3 Medical Education.- Chapter 4 The de novo Manpower Deployment Processes.- Chapter 5 Primary Care, Government Planning and National Rural Health Mission.- Chapter 6 Structure and Function 1 – The Primary Health Centers.- Chapter 7 Structure and Function 2 - The Community Health Centers.- Chapter 8 Structure and Function 3 – Expectations and Realization.- Chapter 9 Structure and Function 4 - The Final Picture.- Appendix 1: Work Profiles Community Workers and PHC Medical Officer.- Appendix 2 Controversies Surrounding the AYUSH System of Medicine.

O autorze

Sanjeev Kelkar is an MD in Internal Medicine who has worked in varied fields of health care, from tribal India to tertiary care Institutes and multinational pharmaceuticals, to establishing hospitals with modern facilities, intensive care units in rural West Bengal and Tripura and has done seminal work in the area of tuberculosis. A key figure in India, he has successfully conducted innovative teaching programs for postgraduate doctors in collaboration with the Australian University in Newcastle for which he was awarded by the Australian Government and the Australian Industry. He has direct long term 360 degree view and experience of the health care and the issues plaguing the same. He actively writes on health care policy and political issues.