Health Beyond Medicine

This book integrates the concept of healthcare with social determinants such as caste, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity. It traces the history of health services and also discusses the landmark report of the Bhore committee, which laid the foundations of healthcare in independent India.

Vikas Bajpai teaches at the Center for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Anoop Saraya is Professor of Gastroenterology and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition Unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Foreword by Imtiaz Ahmad Authors' Note 1. A Social, Political, and Public Health: Analysis of the Bhore Committee Recommendations 2. Of the Relationship Between Population and Development: Stop Vilifying the People 3. Landmarks in the Development of Health Care Services in India 4. Factors That Influenced the Development of Health Services in India 5. National Health Policy, 2017: Transition from a Draft Policy to Being the Official Prescription for Public Health Nemesis 6. The Challenges Before Public Hospitals, Their Origins and Possible Solutions 7. Socio-economic Inequalities and Health Outcomes in India 8. The Play of Religion in the Delivery of Rural Health Care: Impressions from Mewat District in Haryana 9. Pay for Performance Programmes in Health Care: An Analysis of Findings from Mewat District in Haryana Index