Main description:

This edited volume presents various issues and challenges faced by the health sector in India as well as in South Asia. It is a compilation of research papers presented by eminent social scientists in a health system strengthening conference organised by the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. The contributors of this publication are senior experts working in the area of health sector and reform issues from India and across South Asia and it provides the readers an insight into the various issues and challenges faced by the health sector, especially problems of accessibility, human resource management, financing, monitoring etc., which have been brought out in the book very succinctly. This volume will be of immense benefit to researchers, policy makers and students working on issues of health sector.