This book on Primary Health Care Management has been divided into 10 chapters supported by Charts, Tables, Graphs and Case Studies. Chapter 1st examines the nature and meaning of health suggesting the need of new thrust in 21st century. Chapter 2nd deals with nature of primary health care since the Alma Ata declaration. It also examines its likely thrust in the new millennium. Chapters 3-5 examine the features of primary health care or pillars of primary health care like Community participation, Inter-Sectoral Co-ordination, Appropriate Technology and Administrative researches. Lack of understanding of these features has been responsible for partial success of primary health care and its not achieving its goal-Health for All by the year 2000. The author has given concrete suggestions based on case studies to make these features a reality. Chapter 6 examines the relationships of primary health care with sectors of socio-economic development with a thrust on social development-enrichment of the quality of life. The main plank of this chapter is to take steps to promote economic development via social development. Chapters 7 and 8 examine the quantity and quality of human and financial resources required for primary health care with a thrust on innovative approaches. Chapter 9 examines the referral system-a linking pin among different levels of primary health care and secondary and tertiary healthcare. Lastly, chapter 10 examines the working of primary health care: a case study of Punjab. The thrust of all the chapters has been to focus on development and management of Primary Health Care and the issues likely to be encountered in the 21st century. “ Dr. Goel has examined the nature of Primary Health Care, especially features like community participation, Inter-Sectoral co-ordination, appropriate technology, human and financial resources and the referral system. Throughout the book, facts and figures have been presented in a vivid and interesting manner. I am sure that this book will benefit and help the policy-makers, health administrators and students of health services management.â€
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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