1. Core Courses

M. Phil. In Social Sciences in Community Health

The education and Training programmes for social scientists have been evolved with the idea of making social scientists more effective members of a health team. The effort is to widen their social science perspective through the prescribed courses. Apart from strengthening the understanding of their basis disciplines, these courses underline the need for an integrated approach in the field of applied social sciences and offer the student an opportunity to understand the problems of community health. Students with a Master’s degree in social sciences are eligible for admission to programme of study.

The procedure for receiving applications, screening and selection of candidates

are being laid down by the University.

The course work shall be completed within the first two consecutive semesters and the whole M. Phil programme (including dissertation) within the first four consecutive semesters.

The course work and dissertation together carry total of 24 credits . Distribution of credits for various courses is as follows:

1. Core Courses 12 credits

2. Optional Course 6 credits

3. Dissertation 6 cridits

Evaluation of the Students:

The assessment of a student in Course work is based on the performance in Sessionals which include short written assignments. Term papers, an end Semester written examination and a viva-voce examination.

There are two types of Courses: Core Courses and Optional Courses. The Core Courses provide the students, the optimum content of the area of Social 9Sciences, their application to community health and also an extensive exposure to the area of community health. The optional courses are evolved to give the students an opportunity to carry but more in-depth work in their areas of interest and also to open up the possibility of the students going back to their parent disciplines if they so desire.

The course title, credit allocation and the broad content are given below:

1. Core Courses:

 

Course No. Title Credits

SM 606 Research Methodology 2

SM 607 Social Science Issues in Community 2

Health

SM 608 Social Sciences. Towards and 2

Integrated Approach

SM 609 Review of the Current Issues in 3

Social Sciences in Health

SM 610 Community Health and Its 3

Organisation in India

2. Optional Courses:

SM 622 Application of Anthropology in Health ` 2

SM 623 Application of Sociology in Health 2

SM 624 Communication and Health 2

SM 625 Current Trends in Sociology 2

SM 626 Women and Health 2

SM 627 Social Psychology and National 2

Development Programmes

SM 629 Environment and Health 2

SM 630 Psychology in Community Health 2

SM 631 Education and Training of Health 2

Workers

SM 632 Political Economy of Health 2

SM 633 Social Cultural Anthropology and 2

SM 634 Health Education 2

To dissertation carries 6 credits of the twenty-four credits assigned to the M. Phil. Degree. In the dissertation the student is expected to do research work under the supervision of a faculty advisor on a topic approved by the faculty.

Candidates who have successfully completed M. Phil. Or MCH programmes with a cummulative grade of B Plus are considered for admission to the Ph. D. Programme. In exceptional cases direct provisional admission to Ph. D. Programme is given. These students have to complete successfully the courses prescribed for the M. Phil. Or MCH Programmes before they are confirmed for Ph. D. Programme and allowed to carry out their research work.

The Centre is poised to take up new challenges in the late nineties as public health has emerged as an important area of research at the national and international level. The following are the thrust areas of the Centre:

-Health service systems research;

-Epidemiology of diseases with special reference to communicable diseases, their resurgence and new epidemics;

-Quantitative epidemiology;

• Nutrition and health with a special focus on the vulnerable;
• Population policies;
• Environment and health including worker’s health;
• Medical sociology, medical anthropology and health economics
• Political economy of health
• Demographic history
• The new areas that we need to initiate work in are:
• Democratisation and decentralisation as alternative strategies for the delivery of health care;
• Non-health service inputs into health;
• Urban health;
• Health legislation;
• Bio-ethics;
• Indigenous systems and primary health care;
• International trade, legislation and health;

Imrana Qadeer Professor Primary Health Care, Epidemiological

Studies Health Policy Analysis.

Dr. Imrana Qadeer, M.B.B.S. M.D.

Academic Experience Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community

Health.

School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

New Delhi since 1994.

Associate Professor-1985-94.

Assistant Professor-1971-1985.

Registrar in Clinical Pediatrics from 1968-71.

Qualifications M.B.B.S. 1964.

M.D. (Pediatrics) 1968.

Research Projects 1. " Study of the Community Health Worker Scheme :

District Shahdol, (M.P.)" 1980-81, Indian Council of

Social Science Research

2. Safety of Agricultural implements: An epidemological

Exploration of Morbidity Patterns with Specific Focus

On Agricultural Injuries. In Collaboration with

Prof. D. Mohan of Bio-Engineering Dept. IIT

Council of Advancement of Rural Technology.

3: Prevention of Disabilities among Agricultural

Workers. In collaboration with Prof. D. Mohan of

Bio-Engineering Dept., IIT (1989-92), Ministry

of Welfare.

Research Consultancy 1. Consultant DANIDA for District Health

Project, ‘ Strengthening Health Care and Family

Welfare in Seven Districts in Madhya Pradesh’,

DANIDA, 1979,October.

2. Consultant (Community Health) INTACH Project

on Comprehensive Development Planning for the

city of Leh. 1989, Government of Jammu &

Kashmir.

3. Consultant to UNFPA for Country Programme in

India 1994-99.

Present Membership of Member, Board of the Advisors: People’s Science

Academic Bodies and Institute, Dehradun.

Institutions

Member, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research

and Training in Safety Technology at the Centre

for Bio-Medical Engineering, IIT, New Delhi.

Member, Expert Committee of DST on Science

and Technology for Women.

Member, Board of Advisors of ‘Lokayan.’

Member, Centre for Health Studies, TISS.

Member, Central Council for Health and Family

Welfare, Govt. of India.

Past Membership of Academic Member Advisory Committee for MCH Services

Bodies and Institutions Dept. of Family Welfare.

Member and Organising Secretary to the

Medical Section (Asia Group) of International

Academy of Science.

Member Editorial Board of Health and

Population Perspectives and Issues;

Journal of National Institute of Health

and Family Welfare.

Member Editorial Board of Socialist Health

Member, Consultation Committee of Dept. of

Sciences.

World Sociological Congress, New Delhi, 1986.

International Conference on Injury Prevention, Atlanta, VS 1993.

International Conference on Population Policy Comila, Bangladesh 1993.

International Conference on World Development Report 1993, Investing for Health and Family Welfare in India in Health Implications, New Delhi, 1994.

UN Conference on Population and Development, Cairo 1994.

International Conference on Structural Adjustment Policies and Primary Health Care in South Asia-1997.

Conference on Health System Research Cambridge, Cambridge, England-1998.

Qadeer,I. (1978): India’s Feeding Programme and their Relevance, Social Sciences and Medicine. Vol. 12, pp. 23-27.

Qadeer, I. (1980): Limitation of another development in Health, Social Scientist No.91,p.21-37. (Trivandrum).

Qadeer, I. 1984): Dynamic of People’s Health in People’s Hand-A Study of the CHW Scheme in Madhya Pradesh, Socialist Health Review.

Qadeer, I. (1985): Health System and Socio-Economic Inequalities. Social Action No. 3, Vol. 35, pp. 199-223.

Qadeer, I.( 1985): A Review of Population Policy and Compulsions in Family Planning ,Journal of International Studies, 1988, Vol. 25,pp.86-91.

Qadeer, I. (1986): Policies of Primary Health Care, Radical Journal of Health September.

Qadeer, I.(1987): Social Roots of Ill-Health , Health for the Millions, Vol. 13, Nos. 5 & 6.

Qadeer, I. (1987): The Social-Political Dimension: Radical Journal of Health, Vol. 2, No.3,pp. 60-62.

Qadeer, I. (1987): Giving Public Health Services more than their due. EPW, July 1987, page 1187.

Qadeer,I.(1988): Injuries Sustained to Women and Children in Agricultural Activities in India Paper Presented at the 12th Asian Conference on Occupational Health, Bombay, November.

Qadeer,I.(1989): Injuries in Agricultural Activities. Ind. J. Rural Tech. No.1, pp.71-81,1989.

Qadeer,I.(1990): Beyond Medicine: An Analysis of Health Status of India People. Think India No. 1,pp. 93-107.

Qadeer,I. (1991): The Outreach of Modern Medicine: A Case Study from Shahdol, Indian International Centre Quarterly, Vol 18,Nos.2 & 3 , pp.217-230.

Qadeer, I.(1991): Integrally Women, Health for the Million, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp.11-13.

Qadeer, I. (1993): Needing Some Rethinking on Population Policy, Kurukshetra,Annual No. pp.32-36.

Qadeer, I.(1994): The World Development Report 1993-The Brave New World of Primary Health Care, Social Scientist, Vol. 22, Nos. 9-12, pp. 27-39.

Qadeer, I.(1995): Health Services only for the rich, Public Interest Research Group. The State of India’s Economy 1994-95, Delhi Public Interest Research Group-pp. 77-82.

Qadeer, I.(1995): "Black Death, white lies", Seminar January, No. 425, pp. 83-88.

Qadeer,I.(1995): Primary Health Care: A Paradise Lost, IASSI Quarterly, Vol.14, Nos. 1-2 , July -December, pp. 1-20.

Qadeer, I.(1996): Women and Health, Political Environment , 4, Summer -Fall, pp. 1, 9-13.

Qadeer, I. (1997): Paralytic Poliomyelitis in Rural Area of North India, NMJI, Vol. 10, No. I, January-February, pp. 8-10.

Qadeer. I,(1997): Child Health Independence at Cross-Roads Mainstream, Vol. 35, No. 37 , August 23. Pp. 19-25.

Qadeer, I. (1998): Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 33, No. 11, October 10, pp. 2675-2684.

Qadeer, I. (1998): Our Historical Legacy in MCH Prorammes. In Maithreyi Krishnaraj, Ratna M. Sudarshan, Abusaleh Shariff (ed.): Gender, Population and Development, Delhi Oxford University Press, pp. 267-229.

Name : SHAH GHANSHYAM SHANTILAL

Education : M.A. ( Political Science), MS University of Baroda-1962;

Ph. D., Political Sciences, Gujarat University-1971.

Present Position : Professor in Social Sciences, CSMCH, JNU, New Delhi.

Research Experience : 35 years-served at [1] MS University of Baroda; [2] National Institute of Community Development , Mussoorie; [3] Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; and [4] Centre for Social Studies, Surat [5] LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.

Teaching Experience: [1] 5 years-Post-Graduate (1973-78). Taught at the Department of Public Administration, South Gujarat University, Surat; [2] 1 year (1978-79) Visiting Professor to the Department of Political Science, MS University of Baroda , taught Comparative Politics and Political Sociology; [3] 1 month (January-February 1983 ) Visiting Professor to the Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, taught Indian Politics; [4] 4 months (March-June 1984) Visiting Professor to the Department of Political Movements in India; [5] Guiding Ph. D. students. Three students got Ph. D. [6] Conducted short courses on ‘ Research Methodology’ in 1977, 1978; ‘Survey Research’ in 1991’ ‘ Understanding Society: Method and Approaches’ in 1988; and Faculty Member in the course on ‘ Computer Applications in Social Sciences’ since 1983( the course is conducted every year by the CSS).

1)Public Health and Urban Development : The Plague in Surat,

New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997.

2)(Edited), Social Transformation: I.P. Desai Commemoration Volume. Jaipur

Rawat Publishers, 1997.

3) (Edited), Social Justice : A Dialogue. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1998.

4)(Edited), Capitalist Development in India: Critical Essays: A Volume in Honour of Prof. A.R. Desai. Bombay: Popular Prakashan,1990.

9. Protest Movement in Two Indian States-Study of Gujarat and Bihar Movements. Ajanta Books International . 1977.
1. Caste Association and Political Process in Gujarat. Bombay: Popular Prakashan.1975.

12)Series Editor (with Zoya Hasan and Kuldeep Mathur) on series on Indian Government and Politics, being published by Sage, New Delhi.

(Does not include book reviews, newspaper articles and Gujarati Publications).

1) ‘The BJP’s Riddle in Gujarat: Caste, factionalismand Hindutva’ in The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India, (ed.) Hasen and Jaffrelot, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

2. ‘Hate Propaganda in Gujarati Press and Bardoli Riots’, Economic and Political Weekly,Vol.33, Nos. 33 and 34, August 15-22 1998.
1. ’Polarised Communities’ Seminar, 470, September, 1998.
2. (With D.C.Sah) ‘Development and Resettlement of Tribals: Sardar Sarovar in Gujarat,’ in Antiquity To Modernity in Tribal India: Continuity and Change Among Indian Tribes, (ed.) S.C. Dube, Delhi: Inter-India Publications, 1998.
3. (With Arjun Patel) ‘Tribal Movements in Western India’ in Antiquity To Modernity in Tribal India : Tribal Movements in India Vol.V, (ed.) K.S. Singh, Delhi: Inter-India Publications, 1998.
4. ‘Consequences of Reservations’ in The Politics of Backwardness: Reservation Policy in India, (ed.) V.A. Pai Panandhikar, Delhi: Konark Publication, 1997.
5. ‘Bureaucracy and urban improvement-Can it be made to last?’ Economic and Political Weekly, March 22, 1997.
   8)‘Panchayati raj and the Dalits: A study of Social Justice Committee in Gujarat’ The Administrator, 42, January-March 1997

9)‘Doctors and the Plague’, Issues in Medical Ethics, 4 (4), October-December, 1996.

10)‘Diseases, Doctors and Urban Public Health System’, IASSI Quarterly, Vol. 14 (1-2) July-December 1995.

11)(With Rajni Kothari). ‘Caste Orientation of Political Factions: Modasa Constitutency: A Case Study’. The Economic Weekly, Special Number, July 1963, Reprinted in Indian Voting Behaviour . Edited by Myron Weiner and Rajni Kothari. Calcutta: Firma KL Mukhopadhyay. 1965; In Party System and Election Studies. Edited by Centre for Social Studies. Delhi: Allied Publishers,1967; In Asian Political System-Reading on China, Japan, India and Pakistan. Edited by Betty B Burch and Allan B Cole D. Princeton: Vannostrand Company.1968.

12)‘ Water Works in the Politics of Village Kalai’. In Politics of a Peri-Urban Community. Edited by AH Somjee. Bombay: Asia Publishing House.1964.

13)‘Communal Riots in Gujarat’. Economic and Political Weekly, 5(3,4&5) , Annual Number, January, 1970.

14)(With HR Chatuvedi), ‘Fusion and Fission of Castes in Elections: A Case Study of Chhata, UP’. Economic and Political Weekly, 5(40), 3 October 1970.

15)‘Growth of Group Identity among the Adivasis of Dangs’. Journal of the Gujarat Research Society, 34(1), April 1972.

16)‘Voting Behaviour of Adivasi and Harijan Leaders: A Study of the 1971 Elections’. The Indian Journal of Political Science, 33(4), October-December,1972.

17)‘Gap Between Representatives and Constitutes: An Aspect of Tribal in Gujarat’. Economic and Political Weekly, 7(31-33), Special Number, August,1973.

18)‘Integration through Political Participation : A Study of Adivasi and Harijan Leaders in Gujarat’. ICSSR Research Abstracts Quarterly, 3(2&3), January-April 1974.

19)‘Anatomy of Urban Riots: Ahmedabad 1973’. Economic and Political Weekly, 9(6,7&8), Annual Number, 1974.

20)‘The Upsurge in Gujarat’. Economic and Political Weekly, 9(32-34),Special Number ,1974.

21)‘Traditional Society and Political Mobilisation: The Experience of Barodi Satyagraha in India -1920-28’. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 8,1974.

22)‘The City and Slums’. In Urbanisation in India and Gujarat. Edited by Tara Patel. Ahmedabad: Gujarat University.1975.

24)‘Revolution, Reform and Protest: A Study of Bihar Movement’ (in three parts). Economic and Political Weekly, 9, (16 & 23) April 1977.

26)‘Direct Action in India : A Study of Gujarat and Bihar Agitations’. In Contributions to Asian Studies, Rethinking in Political Development. Edited by A.H.Somjee. Leiden: E.J.Brill. 1979.

27)‘Ideology of Jayaprakash Narayan’. Economic and Political Weekly, 14(9), 3 March 1979.

28)‘Anti-Untouchability Movements’. In Removal of Untouchability. Edited by Vimal Shah. Ahmedabad: Gujarat University. 1980.

29)‘Rural Politics in Gujarat’. In Land. Caste and Politics. Edited by Gail Omvedt. Delhi: Authors Guild Publications. 1980.

30)‘Politics of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes’. A Survey of Research in Political Science: Political Dynamics,3, New Delhi: Allied Publishers. 1981.

31)‘Decentralized Planning in a Centralized Economy: A Study of Sarvodaya Programme in a Taluk’. In Rural South Asia: Linkages, Change and Development. Edited by P.G. Robb. London: Curzon Press. 1983.

32)‘Socio-Economic Stratification and Politics in Rural Gujarat’. In Gujarat Economy: Problems and Prospects. Edited by D.T.Lakdawala. Ahmedabad: Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research ,1983.

33)‘The 1969 Communal Riots in Ahmedabad: A Case Study’. In Communal Violence in India. Edited by Asghar Ali Engineer. Bombay: Orient Longman. 1984.

34)‘Caste , Class and Reservation’, Economic and Political Weekly, 20(3), January 19, 1985; Reprinted in Dynamics of Reservation Policy. Edited by Hamukh Patel. New Delhi: Patriot Publications. 1985.

35)‘Caste in Contemporary India Today’. Mainstream. 22(28), 10 March 1984, Reprinted in Caste, Class and Reservation. Edited by Centre for Social Studies. Delhi: Ajanta. 1985.

36)‘A Profile of Education among the Scheduled Tribe in Gujarat. Tribal Education in Gujarat. Edited by Centre for Social Studies. New Delhi. Ajanta . 19815.

37)‘Tribal Identity and Class Differentiations’.Economic and Political Weekly, Annual Number, February 1979. Reprinted in Caste, Class and Reservation. Edited by Centre for So;cial Studies. Delhi: Ajanta. 19185.

38)‘Prof. A.R.Desai. Biographical Dictionary of Neo-Marxism. USA: Greenwood’s Press. 1985.

39)‘Middle Class Politics: Case of Anti-Reservation Agitation in Gujarat’. Economic and Political Weekly, 22(19-21), May 1987.

40)(With John D’Souza), Young India Project: An Evaluation, Penukonda: Young India Project. 1987.

41)‘Grassroots Mobilization in Indian Politics’. In India’s Democracy: An Analysis of Changing State-Society Relations. Edited by Atul Kohli. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1988.

43)‘Congress and the Deprived Communities’. In Congress in Indian Politics: A Century Perspective. Edited by Ram Joshi and R.K.Hebsur. Bombay: Popular Prakashan. 1988.

44)‘Caste Sentiments, Class Formation and Dominance in Gujarat’. In Caste, Class and Dominance. Edited by F. Frankel and MSA Rao. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1989.

45)‘Panchayati Raj and Weaker Sections’. In Revival of Panchayati Raj: Trends and Problems. Edited by B.C,Shah and J.N. Pandya. Vallbh Vidyanagar: Sardar Patel University. 1989.

46)‘Ethnicity and Politics: A Study of Scheduled Tribes in Gujarat’. Indian Journal of Social Sciences. 2(1) January-March 1989.

49)‘Introduction: Indian Capitalism’. In Capitalist Development: Critical Essays . Edited by Ghanshyam Shah, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1990.

50)‘The Bourgeoisie Party and Deprived Communities’. In Capitalist Development: Critical Essays. Edited by Ghanshyam Shah. Bombay: Popular Prakashan , 1990.

51)‘ Dalit Movements and the Search for Identity’. Social Action, October-December 1990.

52)‘Strategies of Social Engineering: Reservation and Mobility of Backward Communities of Gujarat’. In Diversity and Dominance in Indian Politics. Edited by Ramashray Roy and Richard Sission. Delhi: Sage Publishers 1990.

53)‘Reservation: Promise and Performance’. Bulletin, Madras Development Seminar Series, 15(5& 6), May-June 1990.

54)‘ Migrant Agricultural Labourers’. National Seminar on Agricultural Labour , Ministry of Labour, Delhi, March 1990.

55)‘Social Backwardness and Politics of Reservations’. Economic and Political Weekly, 26 (12 & 13), March 1991.

56)‘10^th Lok Sabha Elections and The BJP’s Victory in Gujarat’. Economic and Political Weekly, 26 (51), December 12, 1991.

57)(With Others), ‘Migrant Labour’. In Report of the National Commision on Rural Labour. New Delhi: Government of India, Ministry of Labour, 1991.

58)‘Liberalism, Democracy and R4eligion: A Critique’. In Secularism in India. Edited by M.S. Gore. Allahabad: Academy of Social Sciences, 1991.

59)‘Protests by the Rural Poor’. In Images of Rural India in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Peter Bumke. New Delhi: Sterling Publishing Private Limited, 1992.

60)‘Development, New Economic Policy and the Deprived Communities’. Man and Development, 15 (1) , March 1993.

61)‘Of Reservation, Merit and Distributive Justice’. Economic and Polical Weekly, April 10, 1993.

63)‘Identity, Communal Consciousness and Politics’. Economic and Political Weekly, 29 (19), May 7, 1994.

65)‘The Prime Ministers and Weaker Section’. In Prime Ministers in India. Edited by James Manor. London: Christopher Hurst and Co., 1994.

Awards and Prizes

1] Hari Om Ashram Prerit Bhaikaka Inter University Smarak Trust’ Prize:

1. For the paper on " Traditional Society and Political Mobilization: The Experience of Bardoli Satyagraha (1920-28)", in 1976-77.
2. For the paper on " Revolution, Reform or Protest: A Study of Bihar Movement", in 1977-78;

2] Hari Om Ashram Prerit Shri Chunilal Vajeram Reshamwala Trust Award’ (1974-78) for outstanding research work;

3] Full-bright Award under the United States Educational Foundation in India for the year 1984;

4] Award of VKRV Rao Prizes in Political Sciences Research for 1979-80;

5] UGC National Lecturer for the year 1985-86.

6 Swami Parvananda Award 1998

Ph. D. Guided 5 students.

M.Phil. Guided 2 students

1. Visiting Fellow, Centre For Asian Studies, University of Amsterdam , June- Sept. 1995

2. ICSSR Social Science delegation to Vietnam, June 1996
1. Asian Studies Association of Austria Biennial Conference, at Melbourne in 8-11 July 1996. Presented paper on " Industrial development and Social Decay."
2. European Conference on Social Sciences at Copenhegan, in August 1996. Presented paper on " Backward Castes and BJP in Gujarat."
3. Indo-Portugal Conference on " Contemporary India in Transition"

organised by Fundacao Oriente, at Lisbon in June 1998. Presented a paper on " Poverty in India."

Name : Mohan Rao

Address : No. 1331, Poorvanchal,

Telephone : 91-11-6196631

Telephone/Fax : : 91-11-6196630

e-mail : mohan@jnuniv.ernet.in

• Doctor of Medicine (MBBS)
• PhD

Thesis entitled "An Investigation Into The Differential Behaviour of Economic Classes in Relation To The Family Planning Programme in Mandya District, Karnataka", Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1995.

• 1987 - present: On the faculty of the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067.

Current designation: Associate Professor.

• 1982 - 83: Consultant, DANIDA Health Care Programme, New Delhi.

• Two years at the Mitraniketan Hospital, Kottayam, Kerala. This small hospital in the remote "Cardamom Hills" area of the Iddukki ranges offers low-cost medical care and preventive health services. It is an "alternative" system relying on the in-house training of para-medical staff combined with a unique socialising process of sharing responsibilities, housing and the small financial returns of the hospital.
• A year at the Kottar Social Service Society, Nagercoil District, Tamil Nadu. Training of community health workers and supervision of community health activities in the district.
• A year at other health and development programmes in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

• Articles/ Essays

26. "India’s Augean Stables: The Unfinished Health Agenda" in S.Mukhopadhyay (Ed), Women’s Health, Public Policy and Community Action, Manohar Publications, New Delhi, 1998.
1. "Quinacrine Sterilisation Trials: A Scientific Scandal", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXIII, No.13, 26^th March 1998.

30. "Concepts in Health", Unit for School of Continuing Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University, (forthcoming).
1. "Some Issues in the Determinants of Health", Radical Journal of Health, (forthcoming).
2. "The Rhetoric of Reproductive Rights: Quinacrine Sterilisation in India" in Qadeer et al (Ed), Public Health and the Poverty of Reforms: South Asia at the Turn of the Century, Sage, New Delhi, (forthcoming).

• Newspaper/ Newsmagazine Articles

1. "Women and Health in India", The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 15^th April, 1989.

12. "Planning in Health: A Heartless Business", The Times of India, New Delhi, 19^th August 1996.
1. "Irreversible Damage", The Pioneer, New Delhi, 8^th May 1997.
14. Co-authored with Dr.Nalini Visvanathan, "Quinacrine Peril", The Frontline, Vol.14, No.19, 3^rd October 1997.
1. "Ban on Quinacrine", The Frontline, 17^th April, 1998.

• Book Reviews

1. "Reifying Reproduction", Review of Rosalind P.Petchesky and K.Judd (Editors), Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women’s Perspectives Across Countries, Zed Books, London, in The Book Review, Vol.XXIII, Nos.1-2, January 1999.
2. "Restating the Case for Development", Review of Narayana K.V., Health and Development: Intersectoral Linkages in India, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXIV, No.9, March 1999.
18. "Epidemiological Nuggets", Review of Andrew Cunnigham and Bridie Andrews (Edited), Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1997 in The Book Review, Vol.XXIII, No.5, May 1999.

• Newspaper Reviews

• A two credit optional course entitled "History and Disease", 1994.

8. Ms.Y.K.Sandhya, "A Sociological Analysis of the North-South Differentials in the Sex Ratios in India: A Preliminary Analysis".

5. Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, "Whither Health Policy?", 11^th January, 1996.
1. Gargi College, Delhi University, "The Population Question and the Environment", 19^th November 1997.

7. Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administrators, Mussorie, "New Initiatives in Health Care: Some Issues", 12^th October 1998.

8. Delhi School of Social Work, Delhi University, "Issues in the Quinacrine Sterilisation of Women in India", 8^th January 1999.
1. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, "A Critique of Reproductive Health: The Case of Quinacrine Sterilisation of Women in India", 7^th June 1999.

3. Guest editor of special number of Social Scientist vol.22, Nos.9-12, Sep-Dec 1994; editor of the monograph Reproductive Health in India’s Primary Health Care, CSMCH, 1998.
1. Referee for Contributions to Indian Sociology, Oxford University Press, project proposals to I.C.S.S.R.

1. Along with the faculty of the Centre and the All India Democratic Women’s Association, involved in advocacy and a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court for the ban on the use of quinacrine for female sterilisation.
2. Member of the Fact Finding Team to Pokhran on behalf of the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament.
3. Rapporteur of the WHO Consultation on Equity and Health, Thimphu, Bhutan, 22^nd-27^th November 1998.

19.Chair of the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health for two years.

10.Visiting Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, Trinity Term, 1999.

• Membership of Institutions in an Advisory Role

1. Executive Committee, The Delhi Science Forum.

2. Advisory Panel, Panos (India) Programme on Reproductive Health and Rights.

• Some Workshops/Seminars Attended

1. Development and Educational Communication Unit, ISRO, National Workshop, "development Intervention and Programme Evaluation", Ahmedabad, 27^th-28^th September 1988.
2. Third All India People’s Science Congress, Bangalore, 8^th-11^th March, 1990.
1. Madhyam Communications, National Workshop, "Population, Family Planning and Women’s Health", Bangalore, 10^th-11^th December 1993.
2. Centre for Area Studies, Osmania University, National Workshop, "Population Control Policies and Women in the Third World", 22^nd-23^rd August 1994.
3. Madras Institute of Development Studies, Silver Jubilee International Seminar,"Tamil Nadu: Economy, Polity and Society", Chennai, 2^nd-4^th April 1996.
4. Consumer’s International, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, "Privatisation, Quality and Rights:Asia Pacific Consultation on Quality of Health Care Services", Madurai, 11^th-14^th december 1996.
5. Centre for Area Studies, Surat, "National Workshop on Ethnography of Malaria", 5^th-6^th March 1998.
6. Workshop for Health Journalists, "The Media and Public Health", Panchgani, Maharashtra, 18^th-20^th June, 1998.
7. Panos India, "Reproductive Health Media Fellowship Training Workshop", Kathmandu, 25^th-29^th July 1998.
8. WHO Consultation on Equity and Health, Thimphu, Bhutan, 23^rd-27^th November 1998.
9. Panos India, "Reproductive Health Media Fellowship Training Workshop", Kathmandu, April 1999.
10. London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, "Inequality and Health", 19^th- 23^rd April 1999.

Name K.R. Nayar

Address 1448, Poorvanchal, J.N.U, New Delhi 110 067

Academic Position Faculty member

Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health 1985 onwards

Present Position Associate Professor

Previous experience Research Officer

Indian Council of Medical Research 1983-1985

Academic Qualifications M.A.

Master of Community Health , M.C.H J.N.U (1979) Ph.D J.N.U (1984)

Awarded 3

Ongoing 8

Submitted 2

2. M.Phil

Awarded 22

Ongoing 2

Books

1. Perceived Environmental Quality and Perceptual Selectivity Patterns in an Agrarian Setting in Kerala, Journal of Social and Economic Studies, Vol.3, No.3, 1986,pp.287-295 (With Prabha Ramalingaswami).
2. Housing in Rural Areas: A Social Science Perspective. State and Society, Vol.7, No.3,1987, pp.30-39.
3. Environment and International World Views: Two Steps Backward. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.25, No.9, 1990, pp.457-462
4. Changing International Gaze on Environment and Health Issues. Social Action, Vol.41, No.1, 1991, pp.54-63
5. Interdisciplinarity in Social Sciences in health: A Re-examination of the linkages Between Social Psychology and Health, School of Social Sciences Research paper series, No.1, 1991, pp.1-32
6. Housing, Rural Social Services. Rural Development Programmes IGNOU, 1991, pp.56-68
7. Environment Policy Initiatives: The International and National Context. Asian Law Review, Vol.2&3, Winter, 1993, pp.27-32
8. Social Sciences in health: Towards a Paradigm. IASSI Quarterly, Vol.12, No.1&2, 1993, pp.153-159
9. Twenty Years of Environmental Rhetoric. Mainstream, Vol.32, No.7, 1994, pp.12-13
10. Politics of Sustainable Development. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.29, No.22, 1994, pp.1327-29
11. Contextualising Plague: A Reconstruction and an Analysis. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.29, No.47, 1994, pp.2981-89 (With Imrana Qadeer and Rama V.Baru)
12. The New Era of Growth: An Epitaph to the Environment. Social Scientist, Vol.22, No.9-12, 1994, pp.129-136
13. Health 1994-95, Alternate Economic Survey, Wiley Eastern, 1995
14. Health and Structural Adjustment : Major Shifts at Policy Level. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.30, No.20, 19995, pp.1156-60 (With Mohan Rao, Rama V Baru and Ritu Priya)
15. New Trends In Land Development in Kerala. Mainstream, Vol.33, No.49, 1995, pp.27-28
16. Housing Water Supply and Sanitation: An Assessment of Problems and Prospects, IASSI Quarterly, Vol.14, No.1&2, 1995, pp.103-109
17. Dissect and Decide. Environment Policies in India. Radical Humanist, Vol.60, No.3, 1996, pp.27-28
18. Patterns of Funding by Bilateral and Multilateral Agencies in Health: Implications for Public Health. 1996, Voluntary Health Association of India ( with Rama Baru and Meena Gopal).
19. Housing Amenities and Health Improvement: Some Findings. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.32, No.22, 1997, pp.1275-79

 

20. Sustainable Development: Conceptual Issues and Linkages with Environment and Health. In Manas Chatterji, Mohan Munasinghe and Rabin Ganguly (eds.). Environment and Health in Developing Countries. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation, 1998, pp.81-86.
21. Old Priorities and New Agenda of Public Health in India: Is there a Mismatch? Croatian Medical Journal, Vol.39, No.3, 1998, pp. 308-315
22. Health in the Ninth Plan. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.34, No.8, 1999,

1. 455-57.

23. The Health Impact of Environmental Changes. Christian Medical Journal of India, Vol.14, No.1, 1999, pp.22-24.
1. The New Era of Growth: An Epitaph to the Environment. In Mohan Rao (ed.).

1. International Conference on Environment and Health in Developing Countries. Calcutta,15-18, December, 1994. Presented a paper: Sustainable development . Conceptual Issues and Linkages with Environment and Health
2. Indo-German Workshop on Education and Research in Gerontology. New Delhi, 7-9, March 1996.
3. Workshop on Education and Sustainable Development , New Delhi, April 1996. Presented a paper: Sustainable Development and Linkages with the Social Sector.
4. Seminar on India’s Health. The Prime Concerns. New Delhi, 25^th May 1996. Presented a paper: Sanitation : An Inter-sectoral Vision.
5. International Conference on Kerala’s Development Experience, New Delhi,9-11 December, 1996. Presented a paper : Housing and Health. Another Kerala Conundrum. Chaired a session on health and Health Services: Some Micro Experiences
6. International Conference on Impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes on Health in South Asia, New Delhi, September, 24, 25, 26 September, 1997. Presented a paper: Democratization and Health: Towards an Alternative Health Sector Reforms.
7. Global Ecology Programme, Boston. Lecture to visiting American Students in Delhi, November 28, 1997. Topic: Environment World-views: Implications for Health .
8. International Conference on Global Health Law, New Delhi, 5, 6, 7 December, 1997. Presented a paper : People’s Assessment of Health and its Role in Accessibility-Availability of Health Services.
9. Workshop on the Media and Public Health. Panchgani, Maharastra, June 17-21, 1998. Presentation on Water, Sanitation and Health. Urban and Rural.(As Resource Person)
10. International Conference on Coping with Health Care Reform: Challenges for health Officials and Health Professionals, Estoril, Portugal, October, 9, 10 1998. Chaired a session, Internal Brain Drain and Income Topping up Policies: Responses of the International Organisations
11. Asia-Pacific Conference on Social Science and Medicine. Yogyakarta, Indonesia, December 7-11, 1998. Presented a paper: Health Need Assessment in the context of Health Sector Reforms: A Case Study from India.

1. Technical Assistance with research design for the study of Bhopal gas victims entitled: Against All Odds. Continuing Effects of the Toxic gases on the Health Status of the Surviving population in Bhopal, 1989
2. Member, Expert Committee on Health Care. Department of Rural Development, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
3. Editor, Courses on Rural Health, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
4. Member, Expert Committee on Fellowship Programmes of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
5. Member, Expert Committee on Research Projects on Health Systems Research, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
6. Organizing Secretary. International Conference on the Impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes on Health in South Asia, 24, 25, 26, Sept. 1997, New Delhi

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Name : Rama Vaidyanathan Baru

Designation Associate Professor

1. Masters in Social Work 1981 University of Kerala, Specialization in Medical and Psychiatric Social Work, Trivandrum,(Passed in Ist Class).
2. Master of Philosophy, 1987,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
3. Doctor of Philosophy ,1993, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Title of M. Phil.- " Factors Influencing Variations in Health Services: A Study of Selected Districts of Andhra Pradesh".

Title of Ph. D. Thesis-" Some Aspects of the Private Sector in Medical Care and Its Inter relationship with the Public Sector: A Study of Hyderabad-Secunderabad".

Qualified for the Junior Research Fellowship Award by the University Grants Commission in 1989.

Professional Experience:

1. Assistant Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU, from March 1994 to 1999
2. Programme Officer, Voluntary Health Association of India, Delhi from September 1992 to March 1994.
3. Programme Officer, Andhra Pradesh Handicapped persons Welfare Corporation 1983-85.

1. Read a paper on " Regional Variations and Health Care Planning: Some Issues" at the XIth International Conference organised by Social Science and Medicine held at Netherlands, July 1989.
1. Read a paper on ‘ Initiatives for Government Intervention on Health Care in the Context of the New Economic Policy’ at a National Seminar on New Economic Policy and New Initiatives For Government Action Organised by Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, March 8^th and 9^th 1993.
1. 
   Read a paper on ‘Structure and Utilization of Health Services: An Interstate Analysis’ at a National Seminar World Development Report 1993: Investing in health: Implications for Health and Family Welfare in India, 8^th and 9^th December 1994, JNU.
1. Read a paper on ‘Patterns of Foreign Funding to the Health Sector ion India’ at a International Conference organised by Social Science and Medicine, Peebles, Scotland, September1996
   Read a paper on ‘Health Sector Reform in India: A State level Analysis’ at the International seminar organised by Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health entitled Structural Adjustment and Health, September 1997.
1. Read a paper on "Regional Variations of Non Government Health Services" at a Workshop on ‘Health and Development, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, July 1997.

1. "Regional Variations in non Government Health Services: An Interstate Analysis" UNDP, 1997.
2. Patterns of Funding by Bilateral and Multilatural Agencies in Health: Implications for Public Health, VHAI, New Delhi, 1996.
3. Part of a Multidisciplinary team of the National institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi Conducting a multicountry Research Study on Lymphatic Filariasis.

Name : Ritu Priya

Address : Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067.

Current Designation : Assistant Professor

1. Interlinking health culture and health policy.
2. Communicable disease control programmes.
3. Health of the urban poor.

Graduate from medical college in 1982, Lady Hardinge Medical College, University of Delhi.

• Undertook three semesters of courses preparatory of Ph. D. (which qualify for a Masters in Community Health) at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University,1984-86.
• Currently engaged in finalising a Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘ A Study of Illness,Disease and Wellbeing Among A Group of Construction Workers in their Ecological Context’.

• Directed a research project supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research entitled " The Gastro-enteritis Outbreak and Its Control in Sunder Nagari: An Assessment at Community Level August 1988-April 1989.
• Followed up the previous study through research entitled ‘Urban , Poor and the Health Care System: Case Studies on the Interaction Between Poverty, Popular Health Perception and Behaviour, Public Health Policy and Practice’. Under the joint auspices of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi and the International Development Research Centre, Canada.

Training and Survey with NGO Workers:

Informal involvement with several NGOs, some of it being:

• 1982 , before the issue come into the limelight.
• Assessment of health situation and facilities each of Bihar and U.P. for the People’s Institute for Development and Training (PIDT) in 1983-84.
• Assessment of malnutrition and health Problems in the drought stricken districts of Jodhpur, Rajasthan the Pani Chetna Samiti in 1984.
• Inputs on health in the training campus of local level development workers for PIDT in 1983.
• Participated in planning of a community health programme and training of its workers for Delhi’s resettlement colonies under aegis of Action India and Ankur, 1983-84.

1. ‘Health and Nutrition: People, Policies and Politics’ Lokayan Bull. Vol. 14 No. 1, 1997.
2. ‘Issues of Women and AIDS in India’ Political Environments No.4, Summer Fall 1996.
3. "The Meaning of health; for a group of Migrant Construction Workers: Implications for Health Planning". IASS Quart. Vol. 14. 1 & 2 1995.
4. ‘ Community Health and NGO’s: Myth and Reality’. Lokayan Bull. Vol. 12, No. 3. 1995.
5. ‘ Dalit Perception of Health’ Seminar no. 428, April 1995.
6. ‘AIDS, Public Health and the Panic Reaction, Part I and II’. Nat Med. J. of I, Vol. 7, Nos. 5-6, 1994.
7. " Town Planning, Public Health and the Urban Poor: Some Explorations from Delhi". EPW, Vol. 28, No. 17, 1993.
8. ‘Dubious Package Deal: Health Care in Eighth Plan’. EPW. August 18,1990.
9. ‘Voluntary Action for an Alternative Health System’. Lokayan Bull, Vol.4, No. 3-4, 1986.
10. ‘ The Medico-Friend Circle on Child Health’ in (FDA Dossier ) No. 69, January-February 1989. International Foundation for Development Alternatives.
11. ‘ Mr. Pitroda Goes to Sunder Nagari’ in Seminar No. 354, February 1989.
12. ‘The Epidemiological Approach: Its Scope and its limitations’ in MFC Bull. No. 132, September 1987.
13. ‘ Voluntary Action for an Alternative Health System’ in Lokayan Byull. Vol. 4, No. 3-4 , 1986.
14. ‘Swasthya: Soch aur Karm’ in Lokayan Bull. (Hindi). Vol. 3, No. 5-6, 1985.

1. ‘Conceptual and Methodological Tools for Public Health Planning in the Era of SAP Presented at the International Seminar on ‘ Impact of SAP on Health in South Asia, 24^th -26^th September 1997, J.N.U., New Delhi.
2. ‘ Women and AIDS: Possible Consequences of Packing AIDS with Reproductive Health’. Presented at the National Workshop on Place of Reproductive Health in India’s Primary Health Care, November 1986, JNU, New Delhi.
3. ‘ Paradoxes of the AIDS and Human Rights Debate’. Lecture at National Training Workshop, August 1996, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi.
4. ‘AIDS and Women in India’. Presented at the NGO Forum of the International Conference on Population and Development, 5-12 Sep., 1994.
5. ‘Public Health: Risk, Fear and Prevention’. Presented at Seminar on ‘Rethinking Security’ at the Centre for Study of developing Societies, Feb., 1994 Delhi.
6. ‘ Urban Poor and the Health Care System Care: Studies from Delhi’. Presented at a Workshop on Science, Technology and Medicine in India, March 1990, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
7. ‘Family Planning and Health Care: A Case Study from Rajasthan’. Background paper for XIII Annual Meet of Medico-Friend Circle, 1987.

1. M Phils

1. Completed :7
2. Ongoing :2

1. Ph Ds

1. Ongoing :2

1. Primary Health care- A Paradise Lost, IASSI Quarterly, Vol. 14, Nos. 1-2, 1995, p. 1-20.

This paper examines the present crisis of Primary Health Care and takes communicable diseases as an example of alternative thinking in public health.

2. The World Development Report 1993: The Brave New World of Primary Health Care. Social Scientist, Vol.22 No.9-12, Sept. – Dec.1994, p. 2-39.

This article looks at the evolution of the concept of Primary Health Care and its links with international interests. It traces the shifts that have occurred over the years in India's commitment to comprehensive primary health care and the major actors that have guided these shifts. It examines what could be described as the dualism in India’s plans to build the health sector. It also examines the World Bank’s interventions in health which enforce a disjunction between the various components of public health thus profoundly undermining it. The paper also draws attention to some serious methodological problems with the report.

 

3. Paralytic Poliomyelitis in a rural area of north India, The National Medical Journal of India, Vol.10, No.1, Jan.-Feb.1997, p.8-10.

Background. Paralysis due to poliomyelitis is common in rural areas. The extent of paralysis, type and place of treatment and effect of local treatment on children with poliomyelitis was assessed in a house-to-house survey conducted between 1990 and 1991 in a rural area of north India.

Method. Trained field workers conducted a house-to-house survey in 9 villages of Haryana with a total population of 22 883. All cases of deformity and muscular weakness unsuspected to be due to poliomyelitis were examined and details regarding immunization, diagnosis, treatment and follow up were recorded. The late consequences of neglect as well as inappropriate medical advice were also assessed by physical examination and directed questioning of the parents.

Results. Thirty-seven cases of paralytic poliomyelitis were identified indicating a prevalence rate of 1.6 per 1000 population. Of these , 97% were paralysed before they were 2 years old and 60% had a history of intramuscular injections preceding paralysis. Only 14% of them had received either partial or complete immunization. The majority of families preferred to take treatment from traditional healers or in city hospitals but not from primary health centres.

Conclusion. Despite the national immunization programme, paralytic poliomyelitis continues to be a significant problem in the villages surveyed. Primary health centres are an unreliable source of epidemiological data for paralytic poliomyelitis as villagers do not prefer to visit them for treatment of the disease. Injections given for treatment of fevers in rural areas may play a role in precipitating paralytic poliomyelitis. These findings highlight the urgency of a broad-based primary health care approach at primary health centres. Traditional healers and private practitioners should be trained to provide physio-therapy to children with polio and educated about the importance of not giving injections to children with minor fevers.

4. Child health : Independence at crossroads. Mainstream, Vol.35, No.37, Aug.23, 1997, p. 19-25.

This paper examines the demographic trends in children’s health status after independence, along with gender differentials and regional variations in this regards. It also examines the various governmental efforts taken to improve children’s status, the socio-political forces behind these efforts and their consequences.

5. Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.33, No.11, Oct. 10, p.2675-2684.

This article examines the concept of reproductive health as it emerged in the 1980s, its consequences for health research and family planning programmes in India, its advocacy for the third world agenda and the reasons behind it, its epidemiological basis, and offers an alternative public health perspective for understanding reproductive health.

6. Our historical legacy in MCH programmes. In Gender, Population and Development by Maithreyi Krishnaraj, R.M. Sudarshan and A Shariff (eds). Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, 267-90.

In the first part of this paper the author explores the historical reasons which led to the emergence of modern maternity services in British India. It agrees that the structure and content of the services were determined by the social pressures that created it. In the second part it examines the evolution and re-definition of maternity services in independent India. The third part looks at the nineties, and shows that the State shifts to yet another definition of maternity health as a means of achieving a different objective, central to the survival of the ruling classes.

 

 

 

Prof. Ghanshyam Shah

1. Public Health and Urban Development. The Plague in Surat, New Delhi: Sage Publication, 1997, Page 317.

The outbreak of a deadly infectious disease (widely believed to be the plague) which gripped Surat ( India’s twelfth largest city) in 1994, created wide spread panic not just in the country but throughout the world. Through the disease was controlled within a week, it has raised many fundamental and still unresolved issues covering the state of the public health system and the path of urban development in India. This remarkable study treats the Surat episode as a symptom of a socio-political disease related to the value system of the populace, the top sided nature of development, the crisis in governance and a fragile and fragmented civil society.

Ghanshyam Shah first outlines the pattern of Surat’s growth, the government’s resources and the state of its municiple services. Against this background, he charts the outbreak and spread of the disease, analysis the socio-economic background of the victims; describes the perceptions of and response to the crisis of different strata of society; outlines the way local communities respond to the situation based on primordial loyalities such as kingship and caste; and describes the mechanisms that were evolved to cope with the crisis. In conclusion, he draws lessons from the Surat experience to suggest suitable policies for minimising the recurrence of such deadly diseases.

2. Protest Movements in two Indian States. A study of the Gujarat and Bihar Movements. India: Ajanta Publications 1977, Page 171.

In this book author made an analysis of upsinges in Gujarat and Bihar during 1974 –75. It examines the nature of two agitations, issues raised in the course of agitations, identification of the actors and the participants and then role etc. all those analysis are directed at understanding the concept of " total revolution".

3. The Prime Minister and the ‘Weaker Section of Society’. In Nehru to the Nineties. The changing office of Prime Minister in India. By James Mauor (ed.). London. Hinst a company. 1994, page 230-256.

The Prime Minister in India is de facto read of the executive. The Prime Minister enjoys de jure and defacto power by virtue of his/her office in deciding destiny of the country. But the Prime Minister is not a despot. Socio-economically dominant forces which are close to the corridors of power try to influence decisions of Prime Ministers in favour of proferted classes. In such a situation, what power has the Prime Minister wielded and what strategies has she/he evoked to protect and advance the interests of the ‘weaker sections.’ This article examines the perspective and approaches of different Prime Ministers to the problems of the weaker sections , and the programmes formulated under their leadership to mitigate poverty.

This article argues that comparatively title has changed in Prime Minister’s approaches to the ‘weaker sections’ of the society. Despite plenty of rhetoric and anti-poverty programmes, the poor have not made significant gains.

4. Social Movements in India. A review of the literature. New Delhi; Sage Publications. 1990, page 222.

Social movements primarily take the form of non-institutionalised collective political action which strive for social and/or political change. While India has witnessed many such movements over the centuries, it is only over the last tow decades that political scientists and sociologists have begun to study them in depth. The time, therefore, is ripe to evaluate the burgeoning body of research and thus in the purpose of the book.

5. Economic Differentiations and Tribal Identity. A restudy of Chaudharis in

India: Ajanta Publications, 1984, page 152.

This monograph is a restudy of a tribe called the Chaudharis in Gujarat . The tribe was first studied in 1932 –33. The present study focuses on socio-economic changes that have taken place among the Chaudharis during the last for decades, and how far these changes have eroded or strengthened their tribal identity.

Unlike many tribal studies, the study examines the tribe s a part of the larger Indian Society which is following the capitalist path of development. It is argued here that the direction of change in the tribal society is Similar to that in the large society: and the nature and direction of change in the larger society greatly influence the internal structure , the norms and the life-style of the tribal society. This is more than detribalisation. Euphemistically called sanskritisation. Tribal unity is getting eroded and class formation is taking place among the tribal.

6. Caste Association and Political Process in Gujarat. A Study of Gujarat Kshatriya Sabha. Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1975, page 218.

The present study examines the processes of interactions between caste and politics. The Gujarat Kshatriya Sabha, a caste association has selected as a case study to understand such processes. In order to understand the process author has examined both documentary and survey data on the basis of these author has discussed the growth of the caste association, its structures and procedures, its leadership and its relationship with political parties and government.

7. Gross-Roots Mobilisation in Indian Politics. In India’s Democracy: An Analysis of Changing State-society Relations by Atul Kohli (ed.). New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1988, page 262-306.

This essay surveys the political activities of those at the bottom of the social hierarchy, dispelling the widespread belief that India’s downtrodden are inactive. Shah’s paper describes and categorizes the myrial of political actions undertaken by India’s poor. A number of important insights emerge from this paper. First and most important, in the clean sense of political restiveness of the lowest social level. The second important insight that emerges from Shah’s paper is an explanation of why this restiveness has not accumulated.

8. Disease, Doctors and Urban Public Health System: A study of Surat City.

IASSI Quarterly, Vol.14, Nos.1-2, 1995, page 115-139.

This paper aims at examining the nature of major diseases in the city affecting a large number of people. Their perception of these diseases and the remedies they follow to be cured have also analysed. It also delineate the network of doctors in the city and then role in curing diseases, and creating, strengthening or reformulating people’s beliefs about health and diseases. It also examined the nature and extent of the public health system in the city.

1. Of Cholera and Post-Modern World. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 27 ( 34), Aug. 22, 1992, p.1792 – 96.

An examination of the political and economic forces underlying the recent epidemic of cholera in Latin America reveals striking resemblances to the situation in which the pandemics of cholera occurred in the 19^th century. It draws attention to the fact that not only does politics inform the occurrence of disease, but the shape and content of health policy and intervention as well.

2. The Communalisation of Population Growth. Health for the Millions, Vol. 1,

No.1, Feb. 1993, p. 22-24.

This article examines the popular historical myths and propaganda about population growth among different religion, especially among Hindu and Muslim population. It argues that perhaps birth rate and acceptance of family planning are dependent upon a large number of socio-economy factors. He feels that the imbuing demography with religion is clearly guided by dangerous political motives.

3. An Imagined Reality: Malthusianism, Neo-Malthusianism and Population Myth. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol., 19, No.5, Jan.29,1994, p. PE 40 –52.

5. The Writing on the Wall: Structural Adjustment Programme and the World Bank Report 1993: Implications for Family Planning in India. Social Scientist, Vol. 22, Nos.9-12, Sept.- Dec. 1994, p. 56-78.

In this article, author traces the evolution and growth of the family planning programme in India. He draws attention to the factors which are deemed to contribute to its success, viz. employment and poverty, improvement in health, nutrition and infant child survival. The experience of countries in Latin America and Africa, which adopted structural adjustment programmes shows that the negative impact of these policies were precisely felt in these areas. On this basis author hypotheses that new economic policies will further erode the already weak base for the acceptance of family planning in our country.

6. Health and Structural Adjustment: Major Shifts at Policy Level. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol., 30. No.20, May 20,1995, p. 1156-60.

The World Bank’s World Development Report 1993 proposes drastic changes in the direction and content of health service development. A recent seminar in Delhi raised issues regarding the report’s conceptual, methodological and empirical aspects.

7. Is Family Planning Empowering or Coercive? IASSI Quarterly, Vol.14, Nos.1-2, July-Dec.1995, p.

In this paper author presented some findings of his study in three villages of Mandya District of Karnataka to tangentially throw light on the question of the reproductive profligacy of the poor.

8. A Faulty Diagnosis: The World Bank’s Prescription for India’s Family Welfare Programme. Political Environments, Massachusets, Vol.3, Spring 1996, p. 38-39.

The article traces the shifts that have occurred over the years in India’s family planning programme and the role of world Bank in these shifts. It argues that the focus on reproductive health obscures the fact that India is yet to undergo an epidemiological transition; that the profile of diseases and deaths continues to be dominated by diseases caused by poverty. Therefore without adequate employment income, food, water, sanitation and access to comprehensive primary health care the approach of reproductive appears doomed to failure.

9. Reproductive health in India’s primary health care system. The National Medical Journal of India, Vol. 10, No.3, May-June 1997, p. 134-38.

It is a report of the workshop entitled ‘The place of reproductive health in India’s primary health care’ held on 4-5 Nov. 1996 at JNU, New Delhi, where in many health professionals and policy makers were written and presented papers. Their papers examined the concept of reproductive health as it emerged in the World Bank document entitled ‘India’s family welfare: Towards a reproductive and child health approach. They looked at the epidemiological basis and consequences of the approach of the World Bank, and draw attention to some serious methodological problems with the World Bank report and offers an alternative public health perspective for understanding reproductive health.

10. Quinacrine Sterilisation Trials: A Scientific Scandal? Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 33, No.13, March 26-April 3, 1998, p. 692-95.

K.R.Nayar and Prabha Ramalingaswami. Perceived Environmental Quality and Perceptual Selectivity Patterns in an Agrarian Setting in Kerala. Journal of Social and Economic Studies, Vol.3 (3), 1986, pp.287-295

This paper studies the perceptual components of the environmental system in Kuttanad region of Kerala which is a green revolution belt. The study reveals that the ecological imbalance manifested in the form of water pollution, growth of water plants and weeds, the outbreak of environmentally induced diseases, is one of the major factors responsible for the low perceived environmental quality and frustration. There also exists a socio-economic filter influencing the perceptual reactions of the people. The study concludes that perceptual selectivity patterns should form the background for evolving developmental programmes to minimize the ecological fallout.

K.R.Nayar. Environment and international world views: Two steps backward. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.Vol.25 (9), 1990, pp.457-462.

This paper reviews the global perspectives on environment. The review reveals that the global perspectives on environment are influenced by a predominant world view imbued with an overriding concern for population growth in the Third world countries. The Club of Rome has the distinction of spreading the awareness of doomsday with puissant reports linking environmental issues with population growth. The paper shows the neo-Malthusianism inherent in some global perspectives on environment and the reflection of these perspectives on Indian policies and progeammes.

K.R.Nayar. Social sciences in health: Towards a paradigm. IASSI Quarterly, Vol.12 (1 &2), 1993, pp. 152-59.

The paper suggests that it is possible to now visualize a theory in social sciences in health. The theory should visualise health at three levels. Health should be viewed as a problem and a need in order to understand the epidemiological and social-structural issues. At a third level, the theory should also encompass the international dimension in terms of health policies and programmes which emanate from the international network.

All the three levels are interrelated at both theoretical and empirical levels. This approach highlights the need for adopting a political economy approach rather than the conventional segmented approaches like health psychology, medical sociology and medical anthropology.

K.R.Nayar. Politics of Sustainable Development. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.29 (22), 1994, pp.1327-29.

This paper addresses the concept of sustainable development which is ill-defined and vague. The paper says that this ambiguity allows different conceptualisations depending on one’s ideological inclinations. It is suggested that the operationalisation of the concept should allow the distinctions between developed and developing countries. If the distinctions are recognized, then the starting point is the countries of the North which, through the present high levels of consumption and polluting technologies, not only damage their own environment but even that of the South. In short, the politics of

sustainable development is that it is anti-poor, anti-south and anti-ecological.

K.R.Nayar. The new era of growth: An epitaph to the environment. Social Scientist, Vol.22 (9-12), 1994, pp. 129-136.

This paper analyzes the environmental concerns of structural adjustment programmes in India and place them in the context of policy directions from the World Bank especially in the form of World Development Reports. It is opined that the conceptualization of environment in the World Development Report , 1993 in terms of three categories, of the household, the occupational and the ambient environments does not capture the type of stress that the Indian urban and rural environments are subjected to and its environmental health implications. It also does not deal with direct and indirect effects on health due to concentration of industries, urbanization, depletion of natural resources and its effect on livelihood – especially in marine and forest ecosystems.

K.R.Nayar. Housing, water supply and sanitation: An assessment of problems and prospects. IASSI Quarterly, Vol.14 (1&2), 1995, pp.103-109

The analysis of housing and basic amenities in India suggests that the intersectoral vision and an understanding of the state’s responsibility at the time of independence have given way to interests of the private sector. It is evident that the availability of housing for the poor is one of the areas which needs urgent action. This is due to commercialization of housing sector which has resulted in higher cost of building materials which is unaffordable to the poorer sections even with the subsidy-oriented government programmes. From the broad linkages between housing, environmental amenities and health it is possible to conclude that the notional intersectoral approach has to be reformulated into an intersectoral action programme.

K.R.Nayar. Housing, amenities and health improvement: Some findings. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.32 (22), 1997, pp. 1275-79.

The analysis of data from ten states supports the contention that health improvement in India is a complex phenomenon. It could be methodologically incorrect to isolate literacy from the myriad of relationships, as this is supposedly innocuous. Any action on health improvement cannot be based on notions of unilinearity and ready-made models. The intercorrelations between various indicators suggest that mere availability of housing or amenities alone would not explain health improvement. Having a source of water in the premises is much more important even if it is an open source of drinking water. This probably explains the situation in Kerala where large majority of the households in rural areas depends on well water. The linkage between sanitation and health stands out. The association is stronger than any other linkages. Kerala again stands out in terms of availability of toilets and exclusive toilets.

K.R.Nayar Old priorities and new agenda of public health in India: Is there a mismatch? Croatian Medical Journal, Vol. 39 (3), 1998, pp. 308-315.

The aim of the paper is the analysis of the mismatch between the new health services agenda and epidemiological priorities, and exploration of the possible alternatives, such as decentralization. The post-reform period has witnessed a rise in the cases of communicable diseases and an increase in the frequency of epidemics in different parts of the country. The infant mortality rate has risen or decline has slowed down in many states. The new agenda, which includes gradual withdrawal of the State in the provision of health services and the process of privatization, has already been initiated in the country as a part of the health sector reforms. The process of decentralization in Kerala was examined to highlight the role of people’s planning in health under growing conditions of mismatch between epidemiological priorities and the new agenda.

K.R.Nayar. Ecology and Health: A systems approach. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation. 1998 (Book)

This book unravels the socio-economic and public health dimensions of the ecological conundrum in the Indian context. It analyzes the ecological fallout from developmental programmes using systems approach. By examining the natural, physical socio-economic and perceptual components of the environmental system, it also highlights the need to consider the environmental concerns of different sections of the population to minimize the impacts of technocentric biases in the developmental programmes.

1. Rehabilitation of Disabled Children : Lessons from Two Community Projects. Indian Journal of Social Work, April 1989, p.227-233.

This paper reviews two experiments initiated for rehabilitation of disabled in the urban slums of Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and rural areas of Haryana. The author points out some of the structural limitation in the implementation of these projects.

2. Contextualising Plague: A Reconstruction and An Analysis. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.29(47), Nov. 1994, p. 2981-2989.

This paper which is co-authorised with Qadeer and Nayar is a reconstruction of the plague epidemic in Surat, Gujarat. The paper uses empirical evidence to reconstruct the factors that were responsible for this epidemic and emphasize the need for a systematic analysis for public health practice.

3. Mixed Economy in Medical Care: Some Issues, IASSI Quarterly, Vol.14 (1-2), p.80.

This paper locates the public private mix in provisioning of medical within the larger framework of a mixed economy model. The author argues that private interest have been accommodated in the planning process from independence to the present. This framework is used to analyse the process of privatisation of medical care in India.

4. Inter regional Variations in Health Services: A Study of Selected Districts. In Andhra Pradesh. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 28 (20), May 15, 1993.

This paper studies the regional variations in health services across well developed and poorer districts in Andhara Pradesh. Based on data on institutions, bed strength and manpower, the author examines the distribution across these two sets of districts for the public, private and voluntary sectors from the 60’s to the mid 80’s . In addition the author explores the socio-economic and political factors responsible for these variations.

5. Structure and Utilization of Health Services: An Inter-state Analysis. In Disinvesting in Health: The World Bank’s Prescriptions for Health by M. Rao (Ed.), New Delhi: Sage Publication, 1999, p. 129-144.

This paper examines the patterns of provisioning across the public and private sectors in major Indian States. The author argues that the utilization patterns are closely related to availability of services. Based on available data, it is apparent that the public sector is still the major provider of health services and any cutback on these will adversely affect the poorer states where the private sector growth is very little.

6. Missionaries in Medical Care. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 34 Feb. 9 to March 27, p

This paper examines the history and spread of medical missionaries during the 19^th century and the trends in growth of mission hospitals across states. In the present context of privatisation the future role of missionary hospitals is also discussed.

7. Community Health and the Voluntary Sector. Social Welfare, 46 (6), Sept. 1999.

This paper explores the history and regional distribution of Non-Government Organisations. It analyses the characteristics, coverage and limitations of NGOs.

8. The Seven Year Hitech. Human scape, April 1999.

This article explores the experience of health sector reform in Andhra Pradesh. It looks at the content and limits of the reform process which has policy implications.

9. Private Health Care in India: Social Characteristics and Trends. New Delhi: Sage. 1998, p.184.