About the Book: Public Health Concerns and Reforms: Perceptions of the Civil
Society
This book explains four basic health concerns pertaining to regulation, climate
change, air quality and community participation; observed by scholars and
practitioners in India, who attempt to offer suitable reform measures for
addressing the challenges in the public health sector. It has been widely argued
that human development cannot take place without popular participation in the
policymaking and governance processes. Therefore, the perceptions of the civil
society on public health presented in this publi-cation assume immense
significance as India is moving toward and planning for universal health care,
and would be of much use to health