It has been frequently reported by the medical practitioners and public health workers that very often people do not utilize the medical and preventive facilities available to them. Social and economic factors are generally accepted as highly important in the multiple causation of disease. Therefore, health workers must come to understand such factors if they are to deal effectively in both primary prevention and cure of disease and other health disorders. Urbanization and changing environmental situations have also created various health problems. Again, in the contemporary world, one cannot deny the various health hazards associated with different jobs. These are the emerging health challenges based on changing socio-cultural and economic situation. One will have to address and examine some of these new health problems. Besides this, knowledge and documentation of traditional medicine is also equally important. Many such issues have been examined in the present volume.
These well-researched papers cover wide range of issues related to health. There are three sections in the present volume. Section I deals with ‘Health Issues and Human Rights’. Section II is on ‘Occupation and Health: The Challenges’ and the last section is on ‘Changing Health Scenario: Opportunities and Challenges’.
It is expected that the findings of these research papers would create interest among health administrators and scholars/researchers of anthropology, sociology and medical science.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Buddhadeb Chaudhuri
Buddhadeb Chaudhuri (b. 1943) holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from Calcutta University. He also received the prestigious Premchand Roychand Scholarship from the Calcutta University. He has numerous published papers in journals and edited books and has fifteen books to his credit. He was also invited to edit an international publication, based on papers presented in a workshop which he attended in Vietnam, published from Bangkok. He was a Senior Fellow of ICSSR and Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. He was also a Visiting Fellow in Helsinki University and a Visiting Professor in Warsaw University, Poland. He has already completed a number of research projects received from different sources like ICSSR, UGC, Govt. of India, UNICEF etc. Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development has sponsored his cross-cultural study on Development and Environment with reference to forests in South and South-East Asia. He has also initiated a few development programmes particularly for the tribals besides being connected with a number of organizations devoted to development. He participated and organized many National / International Seminars in India and abroad. He has conducted field work in different countries of South and South-East Asia. As a member of an International three-member study team, sponsored by Swiss Red Cross, Prof. Chaudhuri participated in the project identificatioin mission in Bangladesh during October-November, 1991 to study the post-April, 1991 Cyclone situation. He is currently Dr. Ambedkar Chair Professor in anthropology, University of Calcutta.(E-mail:
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