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Synopsis This book may be referred as ‘applied public health’. It deals with the most significant facets of healthcare services in India. The efforts enunciated in this book portray how the Indian social dynamics influences the health policy-decisions and plan of actions. It focuses ‘health sector reform’ towards a basic framework of sustained process of fundamental changes guided by the government to improve effective, in health sector, the pertinent issues concerning Indian situations have been delineated to inform the readers that reforms in health care activities should not only deal with the concerns in relation to structure and function of medical care establishment, but also should take care of the issues pertaining impact on health and quality of life of the people. First volume of the book scrutinizes the processes of change in relation to ‘heath sector reform strategies and experiences’, ‘user charge’, ‘health insurance’, ‘role of NGOs in health sector’, ‘PHC and panchayat system collaboration and ‘health policy research’. Second volume of the books deals with the issue containing the impact reflections of health sector reform initiatives. Such major concerns comprise the ‘politics of poverty and health’, ‘sex ratio’ ‘status of women’, ‘social dynamics of missing girl child’ ‘danger to the extinction of primitive tribe’, ‘old age and social security’ and ‘tribal health strategies and management’. Each subject sets the reading sin context of highlights the critical dimensions of both structural and functional implications of the health care delivery system. This book draw attention to all categories of readers especially the policy makers, planners and researchers.