Flies without Borders
India’s cities face key challenges to improving public health outcomes. First, unequally distributed public resources create insanitary conditions, especially in slums – threatening everyone’s health, as suggested by poor child growth even among the wealthiest. Second, devolving services to elected bodies works poorly for highly technical services like public health. Third, services are highly fragmented. This paper examines the differences in the organisation and management of municipal services in Chennai and Delhi, two cities with sharply contrasting health indicators. Chennai mitigates these challenges by retaining professional management of service delivery and actively serving vulnerable populations − while services in Delhi are quite constrained. Management and institutional issues have received inadequate attention in the public health literature on developing countries, and the policy lessons from Chennai have wide relevance.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
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Taylor and Francis
2020-05
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| Subjects: | HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, GOVERNANCE, MUNICIPAL HEALTH, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, URBAN HOUSING, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/33658 |
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