People in rural areas generally remain unhealthy inspite of the fact that nature has provided them with good facilities–pure air, natural environment and good lifestyle. However, because of their poverty and lack of general education and especially health education they are prone to many diseases for which they rush to health facilities in the cities. Health education in the rural areas can do miracles if the people in rural areas understand that their health is in their hands and is their own responsibility. Health and education are the most important factors for the overall quality of life enjoyed by the people in an area, region or country. The health development is the process of continuous progressive improvement of the health status of the population. Its outcome is the rising level of human well-being, not only by reduction in the burden of the diseases but also by the attainment of positive, physical, mental and social health related to satisfactory economic functioning and social integration. Health is both an input and output and is linked with development. Inspite of this realization, the people, especially those in rural areas, are not getting facilities of modern medicine. The state of hopelessness and frustration among people is not because of lack of professional knowledge or competence, but due to poor administration of health services. In this volume "Rural Health Education" we have attempted to make rural India healthy through Health Education Inter-sectoral, co-ordination, people’s participation, etc. This book would be useful to all concerned with rural India.
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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