This book on Health Care Policies and Programmes reflects upon health education and environmental sanitation, essential pillars of health development leading to socio-economic development in Chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 3 and 4 examine the status, issues, modifications and future strategy of National Health Programmes both in the areas of communicable and non-communications diseases. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 cover an important area of Family Planning Programme including information, education and communication as well as recently introduced reproductive and child health services based on population conference at Cairo in 1993. It has been stressed here that quality of maternal and child health services can accelerate the tempo of family planning programme to move towards population stabilization. (An analysis of New Population Policy has also been incorporated to assess it positive and negative aspects). Chapters 8, 9, 10 examine the health programmes critically aimed at women’s health, children’s health, health of the elderly and youth. All these programmes have been examined within the integrated framework of health and family planning welfare. The thrust in all the chapters has been to inject new tools and techniques to provide decent health care and make the life of the people healthier and worthwhile and not merely prolongation of life. This book also examines the problems encountered in the implementation of health policy and come out with the suggestion to face health problems in the 21st century intelligently, imaginatively, with clear perspectives and determination.
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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