Title: Public provisioning of health and decentralization in Gujarat

Authors: Visaria, Leela and Bhat, Meera

Place: [Mumbai

Publisher: Sameeksha trust]

Year: 2011

Journal: Economic & political weekly

Volume: vol. 46, no. 49

PAGE: 59--66

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: decentralization in government, health, local government, popular participation, women, india

Abstract: The contribution of the decentralized system of governance to the delivery of health services in rural areas of Gujarat, India, is explored. In every village as a Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC) is established and various health programmes are decentralized to the Panchayat level.

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