For People-Centered Health Reforms

Public Health and the Poverty of Reforms

The South Asian Predicament

Edited by Imrana Qadeer, Kasturi Sen,

K R Nayar

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Rs 700/547 pages

This book is the product of a seminar organised by the faculty of the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in 1997 to explore the impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on primary health care in South Asia.

The seminar brought together multiple dimensions of public health, ranging from its conceptual and theoretical basis to its practical dimensions such as financing, planning and organising in an attempt to place health reforms in a global perspective and articulate a viable alternative.

The underlying concern in this book is that the introduction of