CHAPTER I - SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO HEALTH CARE & TB CONTROL <<Back
 
a) Sociological considerations
 
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AU : Imrana Qadeer
TI : National Tuberculosis Control Programme - A social perspective.
SO : (Reprint received from FRCH. source not mentioned)
DT : Per
AB :

The article examined the social dimensions of the NTCP and social issues inside and outside the health service system. The NTCP had initiated and advocated the use of symptoms as the basis for making the preliminary diagnosis, the use of people's felt-need as a basis for a passive case detection strategy through GHS and, provided home treatment instead of the earlier institutional therapy. The important social issues inside the health service system that affected the implementation of NTCP were: 1) Other communicable disease control programs did not use the social approach resulting in consumption of huge resources, 2) Precedence was given to family planning and malaria eradication. This was a frank distortion in the social nature of planning. The outside social issues identified in the paper were the problem of default due to poverty and uncontrolled interventions by the private sector.

KEYWORDS: SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL PROBLEM; INDIA.
 
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