Securing health for All Dimensions and Challenges

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Although health infrastrucutre has grown impressively in India after independence, there is widespread malnutrition and prevalence of ill health in the coutry. While households incur bulk of the health expenditure, government expenditure is limited to only about one-fourth of the total expenditure. India is among those few countires, which spend the least on health. No wonder, expenditure on the health care has emerged in recent years as the second most important source of rural indebtedness in the country. About Author : Sujata Prasad is a civil servant who has worked extensively on issues of women's development and health sector. Her research interests include issues related to sex trafficking, women and work and community health. She is also closely associated with a number of grassroot level organisations working on health and non-formal education.C. Sathyamala is an epidemiologist trained at the London School of Hygience and Tropical Medicine, UK. Since the early eighties. She has been active in the health and women's movement in India. She has co-authored "Taking Sides: The Choices before the Health Worker", a book on the political economy of health for field workers. Contents : ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction and OverviewPart IHealth Status, Utilisation of Health Services and Health SecurityPart IIEmerging Threats in Public Health, Governance and Institutional ArrangementsPart IIIHealth Security among Valnerable GroupsPart IVHealth Financing and Health InsuranceContributorsAcronyms and GlossaryIndex