Health Providers in India

This volume has articles contributed by health researchers practitioners policy advocates programme managers and a journalist and poems by renowned poetâphysician Gieve Patel. Each presents a distinctive view of a particular group of frontline health providers based on field research or on the authorsâ respective experiences of working with or as providers. The health providers addressed in this volume include doctors (working in the public and private sectors) nurses public health workers counsellors traditional practitioners and homecare providers. Different groups of health providers face struggles at diverse frontiers â social professional and systemic. In the context of reforming health systems government health workers must constantly negotiate the vagaries of changing working environments and policy vacillations. For traditional and homecare providers formal health systems and structures often only reject and exclude their contributions. Medical doctors conversely face difficult challenges of introspection as they tread the line between personal gain and public service. The ideas and themes that emerge in this collection not only contribute to the understanding of providersâ roles as actors in the health systems and societies of contemporary India but re-examines preconceptions about this critical occupational group. This volume advances the case for a deeper appreciation of Indiaâs complex landscape of healthcare provision and of the potential roles of frontline health providers as central figures in development. . Language: English