Access to Health Services

ABOUT THE BOOK:- Uttar Pradesh (U.P) is one such state which bears high population pressure along with very low social and economic development. It has the highest birth rate and the lowest life expectancy at birth among the major fifteen states of India. There are only limited studies focusing on U.P and these studies have overlooked the inequality at the regional and individual level. The present work is an attempt to fill this gap. This is based on secondary data sources and therefore also has some limitations owing to the lack of data and inadequacies in the data set itself. The objective of the book is to examine the role of public resources in determining the access to health care services that is the accessibility, affordability and acceptability and utilization of health care services across different administrative regions of U.P, namely, Eastern U.P, Central U.P, Bundelkhand and Western U.P. The present work concludes that there is an urgent need for revamping of public health delivery mechanism in U.P in general and Bundelkhand and eastern U.P in particular. Moreover the government need to ensure better functioning of public health centres by ensuring availability of health personnel, equipments and drugs, rather than over-emphasising physical infrastructure. The state cannot leave health sector to market forces simply because health sector is characterized by the asymmetry of information, existence of profit enterprise and externalities. This provides sufficient rationale for the government to participate actively and significantly to safeguard the well being of the masses in general and of the poor and marginalized in particular. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Dr Tulika Tripathi is an Assistant Professor in Centre for Studies in Economics and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhi Nagar. Dr Tripathi obtained her Ph.D from the Department of Economics, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. Her area of specialization is broadly Development Economics. She has worked on health, labour, home based workers and women empowerment. She has published more than a dozen papers in national and international journals of repute. Dr Tripathi is also a member of several professional organizations. CONTENTS:- Acknowledgement . 7 Preface . 11 Chapter 1 Introduction . 13 Chapter 2 Issues and Debate in Public Health Care . 27 Chapter 3 Public Health Care in Uttar Pradesh . 59 Chapter 4 Inequality in Access to Public Health Care Services in UP . 89 Chapter 5 Public Health Expenditure and Policies in Uttar Pradesh . 119 Chapter 6 Conclusion . 145 Bibliography . 157 Annexure - A . 165 Annexure - B . 169 Annexure - C . 183 Index . 189 The Title 'Access to Health Services written/authored/edited by Tulika Tripathi', published in the year 2015. The ISBN 9788121213189 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 194 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Health. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-