Health Providers in India (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume has articles contributed by health researchers, practitioners, policy advocates, programme managers and a journalist, and poems by renowned poet-physician Gieve Patel. Each presents a distinctive view of a particular group of frontline health providers, based on field research or on the authors' respective experiences of working with or as providers. The health providers addressed in this volume include doctors (working in the public and private sectors), nurses, public health workers, counsellors, traditional practitioners and homecare providers.

Different groups of health providers face struggles at diverse frontiers - social, professional and systemic. In the context of reforming health systems, government health workers must constantly negotiate the vagaries of changing working environments and policy vacillations. For traditional and homecare providers, formal health systems and structures often only reject and exclude their contributions. Medical doctors, conversely, face difficult challenges of introspection, as they tread the line between personal gain and public service.

The ideas and themes that emerge in this collection not only contribute to the understanding of providers' roles as actors in the health systems and societies of contemporary India, but re-examines preconceptions about this critical occupational group. This volume advances the case for a deeper appreciation of India's complex landscape of healthcare provision, and of the potential roles of frontline health providers as central figures in development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136516832
• Artikelnr.: 38270470

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