Volume 14, No. 2 – 2014

Articles

• Limits to Medicine: Social Determinants of Women’s Health by IMRANA QADEER Posted in: Health, Society, Articles Abstract: This paper is a close analysis on the developmental goals of the millennium from a perspective of differences between men and women that surpass more than just biological differences. The impact of factors such as patriarchal structures, economic structures… Continue Reading
• Socio-Political and Economic Determinants of Women’s Health in Kerala by C. U. THRESIA Posted in: Health, Development, Articles Abstract: Despite evoking wider approbation in the field of women’s health and ranking highest in gender development index among the Indian states, beyond the relatively better conventional indicators, Kerala face a deteriorating status in women’s health in the 21st century.… Continue Reading
• Work as a Social Determinant of Health: Joblessness and Informalisation in India- Implications for Health by INDIRA CHAKRAVARTHI Posted in: Health, Development, Articles Abstract: Social determinant of health (SDH) has become a fashionable term to refer to factors beyond the conventional biomedical and behavioural risk factor approach to health. This commentary examines critically the SDH discourse and practice in India, at what it… Continue Reading
• Spinning silk in the [Neoliberalised] “Silk City” of India by ANAMIKA PRIYADARSHINI Posted in: Development, Society, Articles Abstract: Hand spinning has been the most common work done by women of almost all classes and castes in pre-colonial and even colonial-India. This tradition was gradually abandoned in favor of mill-produced yarn. However, women, especially from weaving castes, in… Continue Reading
• Changes in Social Determinant Following Forced Evictions and Their Health Consequences- Economically Weaker Sections (Ews_ Quarters, Ejipura, Bangalore) by SYLVIA KARPAGAM, SIDDHARTH JOSHI Posted in: Health, Development, Articles Abstract: This paper draws from first-hand experiences of the authors who volunteered for relief during the forced eviction of the residents of Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) housing at Ejipura, Bangalore and analyses the effect of the evictions on health status… Continue Reading
• “And Gregor’s Cycle Waiting to be Metamorphosed”: Women’s work and Health in a Transitional hill Economy by RAMILA BISHT Posted in: Health, Development, Articles Abstract: Bound by the duty of survival, life is static in motion. Before retiring after 17 hours of plying from the hearth to the fields, life begins at 4 in the morning. Fetching water, cooking, sending kids to school is… Continue Reading
• Women’s Social Devaluation and its Impact upon Their Health by ALPANA SAGAR Posted in: Health, Society, Articles Abstract: This paper explores and analyses, why and how, the women from slum and their contributions to the household are devalued and what effect this has on their lives and their health. Poverty is a very significant part of the… Continue Reading
• Re-Structuring and Shifting Boundaries: what does it mean for Maternal Health care by BIJOYA ROY Posted in: Health, Articles Abstract: Over the last two decades major maternity care initiative undertaken by the state has focused on institutional birthing. This has shifted the focus from home births and moved to incentive and fee based institutions/ or services. This necessitates an… Continue Reading
• Women as Primary Providers of Healthcare in the Mitanin Programme: Gender, Social and Organisational Constrains by MITHUN SOM Posted in: Health, Feminisms, Development, Articles Abstract: After the formation of the new state of Chhattisgarh, a female Community Health Worker (CHW) program was initiated. Launched after numerous consultations with health experts, this programme was innovative in many ways. The implementation on the ground however, was… Continue Reading
• How will the Children be Born: Shakti and Satta in the Context of Child Birth by JANET CHAWLA Posted in: Health, Society, Articles Abstract: This paper explores indigenous Indian concepts of power, satta and Shakti, working with data, specifically dai interviews, generated by the Jeeva Research Project. From the dais’ own words it attempts to discern and present the differences between satta and… Continue Reading
• Miscarriage to Medical Termination: The Experiences of Legislating Abortions in India by ARATHI P.M Posted in: Health, Society, Articles Abstract: The present paper revisits the parliamentary process of evolution of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971 to understand the political imagination of a welfare state on reproductive rights and freedoms. The paper explores the political process of… Continue Reading