Promotion of health is basic to national progress. Nothing could be of greater significance than the health of the people in terms of resources of socio-economic development. In spite of this realization, the people living in the developing world and especially 80 per cent of them who live in rural area have little or no access to modern medicine and health care. The development of health and medical services has been promoted greatly by advances made in professional skills and technical proficiencies, but it seems apparent that the parallel advances have not been made in the art and science of health care administration. This book on Health Care Organisation and Structure deals with levels of health care administration supported by a chapter on World Health Organization as this International Specialized Agency has played a pioneering role in the genesis, development, growth and diversification of Health Care. This book has been divided into 11 Chapters supplemented by tables, charts and graphs to make the reading interesting and illustrative. Besides, chapters are supported by case studies. Chapters 1 to 3 deal with structure and functions of health care administration at the Union level, State level and District Level. Chapters 4-7 examine the organization and working of District Hospital, Community Health Centre, Primary Health Centre and sub-centre critically. These chapters also deal with inter-relationship at various levels as well as examine the technical and administrative issues faced by them. Chapters 8-9 deal with Village level functionaries, e.g. Village Health Guide, TBA and Anganwadi to understand the dynamics of health care at local level. Chapter 10 deals with Integrated Child Development Services and Chapter 11 deals with International Health Care Administration.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
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