July 2009: Primary Health Care

Cover Story: Health is an important dimension of well being. Health is instrumental in generating higher incomes as it increases people's productivity. Therefore preserving good health of people and quickly recovering in the case of ill-health are development goals and measures of successful developments. However, health wise the picture of India is miserable. There is a huge gap in the provision of health care services to the people, especially to the poor."livelihoods" took a look into the delivery of primary health care services to the poor and its impact on their livelihoods...