Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health Care in Rural North India
Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health Care in Rural North India
This chapter discusses health care in rural north India. It examines the access of villagers in the Bijnor district of western Uttar Pradesh to health care during the early 2000s. The liberalisation, health care, and health status in India is studied, along with the declining state investment in health services. Limiting fertility and removing polio in India is examined in the latter portion of the chapter.
Keywords: health care, rural north India, Bijnor district, liberalisation, health status, state investment, fertility, polio
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