Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- I Introductory Framework: Allen G. Noble's Contribution to Social Geography
- II Conceptual and Theoretical Basis of Social Geography
- III Social Geography from a Global Perspective
- IV Social Geography in the Indian Context
- V Indian Social Geography: City and State Context
- 24 Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Services in Uttar Pradesh
- 25 Status of Women in Aligarh Muslim University, India
- 26 Social Geographies of Collective Action: A Case Study of India's Chipko Movement
- 27 Sacredscape and Manescape: The Sacred Geography of Gaya, India
- 28 Madurai: A Holy City of Pilgrimage
- 29 Assessment and Dynamics of Urban Growth in the City of Kolkata
- 30 Socioeconomic and Demographic Conditions of the Slums of Hyderabad
- 31 Writings of Mirza Ghalib: A Study in Literary Geography
- 32 Geographic Images of Old Delhi through Literature
- 33 Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Elite Residential Colonies in Delhi, 1982–2004
- Index
24 - Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Services in Uttar Pradesh
from V - Indian Social Geography: City and State Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- I Introductory Framework: Allen G. Noble's Contribution to Social Geography
- II Conceptual and Theoretical Basis of Social Geography
- III Social Geography from a Global Perspective
- IV Social Geography in the Indian Context
- V Indian Social Geography: City and State Context
- 24 Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Services in Uttar Pradesh
- 25 Status of Women in Aligarh Muslim University, India
- 26 Social Geographies of Collective Action: A Case Study of India's Chipko Movement
- 27 Sacredscape and Manescape: The Sacred Geography of Gaya, India
- 28 Madurai: A Holy City of Pilgrimage
- 29 Assessment and Dynamics of Urban Growth in the City of Kolkata
- 30 Socioeconomic and Demographic Conditions of the Slums of Hyderabad
- 31 Writings of Mirza Ghalib: A Study in Literary Geography
- 32 Geographic Images of Old Delhi through Literature
- 33 Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Elite Residential Colonies in Delhi, 1982–2004
- Index
Summary
Our healthcare and family welfare programmes are supposed to be demand driven under the new paradigm given in the post ICPD (International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo, 1994) era (United Nations Population Fund, 2004). But supply side issues are also considered equally important in terms of availability and quality of services. The network of Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and Sub-Centres (SCs) is the mode for providing healthcare services to the rural masses. The emphasis on family planning and immunization is obvious in view of the enormity of the population problem affecting the economic development and conditions of the poor in the country. The PHCs and SCs are also responsible for the prevention and eradication of major communicable and deficiency diseases such as malaria, filaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, blindness, and diarrhoea.
In rural areas, government health centres and government programmes play a key role in the provision of prenatal, natal, and postnatal services, including family planning services, immunization and treatment of common diseases. The implementation of the programme depends to a large extent on the availability and performance of doctors and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), Multi-Purpose Health Workers (MPHWs), trained birth attendants and village health guides. These grassroot level functionaries are the backbone of the health and family welfare programmes in the rural areas.
In the family welfare programmes, the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) care provisions are unbalanced, focussing on immunization and the provision of iron and folic acid rather than on sustained care of women and children, or on the detection and referral of high-risk cases.
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- Facets of Social GeographyInternational and Indian Perspectives, pp. 455 - 473Publisher: Foundation BooksPrint publication year: 2012