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Policies, Plans, and People Judith Justice

Policies, Plans, and People By Judith Justice

Policies, Plans, and People by Judith Justice

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Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve.

Policies, Plans, and People Summary

Policies, Plans, and People: Foreign Aid and Health Development by Judith Justice

Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve.

About Judith Justice

Judith Justice is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Preface

1 Introduction

Nepal: The Setting
Research Methods


2 The Health Bureaucracies: Structure and Culture
The Dynamics of Nepal's Bureaucracy
Government Structure
Traditional Patterns in Administrative Behavior

The International Donor Agencies
The World Health Organization (WHO)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Interaction Between the Government and the Agencies
Nepali Administrators and International Advisors

3 Policies and Plans
International Health Policy and Nepal
Hospital-Based and Vertical Programs
The Shift to Integrated Basic Health
Services
Integrated Community Health Program and Primary Health Care

The Planning Process
Country Health Programming
Further Planning Efforts
Planning for Community Participation: A Case Example

4 Delivering Services to Rural Villages
A Partially Integrated Health Post
A Fully Integrated Health Post
The Local Panchayat
Shortages

The Villagers' Response to Services
The District Health Office

Problematic Roles of Health Workers
The Invisible Health Worker: The Peon
The Community Health Volunteer and the Village Health Worker

5 Sources and Channels of Information
Sources of Information
Reports
Field Travel
Formal and Informal Meetings

The Flow of Information within Government
Data, Plans, and Targets
Vertical Barriers
Horizontal Barriers

Reliance on Quantitative Data

6 Sociocultural Information and the Health Planning Process
The Anthropologist's Role in Planning Using Sociocultural Information to
Improve Health Planning: A Case Study
Some Suggestions for Changing the ANM's Role

Overcoming Obstacles in the Health Bureaucracy

Appendixes
1. A Chronology of Health-Sector Events in Nepal
2. Profile of Health Workers in ICHP
3. Job Descriptions for ICHP
Functions of Community Health Volunteer
Village Health Worker
Assistant Nurse-Midwife (ANM)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR005703427
9780520067882
0520067886
Policies, Plans, and People: Foreign Aid and Health Development by Judith Justice
Judith Justice
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
19891102
220
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