1st Edition
Healthcare in Post-Independence India Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services
By Amrita Bagchi
Copyright 2023
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective. It offers an examination of the changing pattern of the entire health care sector, which over recent decades has transformed itself to a profit-making commodity.
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Preface and Acknowledgement; Introduction; 1: Promises and Commitments: The Development of Healthcare Policies and Plans in Independent India; 2: Changing Paradigm in Health Sector (Plans, Policies and Reports): Mid-1980s to 2000s; 3: Public Health Sector and the Development of Nursing Homes in an Eastern Indian Metropolis: From Independence to late 1990s; 4: Causes behind the changing profile of Private Health Care Sector; 5: The Metamorphosis of Private Healthcare; Conclusion
Biography
Amrita Bagchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Bethune College, India.
