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Health For All

  • Health, development and human rights

    The improvements in the indices related to health and development tend to mask the inequity and human costs of the initial stages of economic growth. There is need to foreground social justice and human rights in all aspects of health and development. The improvement in the indices of health and development for India has been incredible. Yet for millions hunger is routine and the loss of their livelihoods not newsworthy. Some aspects of the problem are highlighted. Determinants of health

  • Medical tourism can wait; basic healthcare first

    It's painful to see old, ailing people languishing for medical attention in a city that never tires of flaunting its healthcare and social justice policies. Come to think of it -- there are close to 60 voluntary organisations in Chandigarh and at least 15 helplines to support people in need of care. But for some reason, none of them has managed to spot the 70-something Amar Singh, who has been living at the Sector 30 bus stop, adjacent to CBI office, for about four months. Alone and incapacitated, he can barely move; so he lies in a corner all day, awaiting help.

  • Only schemes

    It has often been suggested that the focus on qualified doctors is one of the main reasons behind the lack of health care in rural areas. In 1975, the Group on Medical Education and Support Manpower suggested that there was a need to reorient medical education and develop a curriculum for health assistants who were to function as a link between medical staff and multi-purpose workers.

  • Empowering Soliga Tribes: 'Sudarshan Model' of Karnataka

    The work in the B R Hills of Karnataka by H Sudarshan, a medical doctor, on the primary healthcare of the Soliga tribes is a rare example of the role of equity, social justice, maximum community participation and empowerment of the people, in addition to the encouragement of indigenous and traditional systems of medicine, in a successful community health programme.

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