For the Public Good

Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India

By:

Patricia Antoniello

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Policy to Practice

Show Hide Adult Content

$273.99

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Wrap this item as a gift ($5.90) - add a free gift card on the next page

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $68.50 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 13-25 June using International Courier

Description

For the Public Good: Women, Equity and Health in Rural India details the role of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), a groundbreaking, internationally recognized primary health care model that uses local solutions to solve intractable global health problems. Emphasizing equity and community participation, this grassroots approach recruits local women to be educated as village-based health workers. In turn, women village health workers collaborate to overcome the dominant double prejudices in local villages-caste and gender inequality. In one generation, village health workers have progressed from child brides and sequestered wives to knowledgeable health practitioners, valued teachers, and community leaders. Through collective efforts, CRHP has reduced infant and maternal mortality, eliminated some endemic health problems, and advanced economic well-being in villages with women's cooperative lending groups. For the Public Good describes how the recognition and elimination of embedded inequalities, in this case caste discrimination, gender subordination, and class injustice, promotes health and well-being and collaboratively establishes the public good.

Author Biography:

Patricia Antoniello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Her recent ethnographic project in India researches community-based primary health care and Village Health Workers at the Comprehensive Rural Health Project in a drought-prone region of India. She is a medical anthropologist who previously conducted research on reproductive rights and women's health in Brooklyn. She also participated on a multisite study of HIV/AIDS in the South Bronx. Professor Antoniello is the Director of the India: Global Health Study Abroad Program. Previously the she coordinator of the Women and Gender Studies Program and the acting director of the Women's Center at Brooklyn College.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2020

Author

Patricia Antoniello

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

212

Series

Policy to Practice

Dimensions

152x228x17

ISBN-13

9780826500243

Product ID

33208276

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Get free delivery, exclusive deals, and more^*

Non-Fiction Books:

For the Public Good

By:

Format:

Series:

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

Availability

Description

Author Biography:

Customer reviews

Marketplace listings

Help & options

Filed under...

Get free delivery, exclusive deals, and more*

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

Author Biography:

Get free delivery, exclusive deals, and more^*