Understanding social determinants of health seeking behaviors and medical pluralism:a rational framework for rural health policy and systems development

Nanjunda (2013) Understanding social determinants of health seeking behaviors and medical pluralism:a rational framework for rural health policy and systems development. Journal of Media and Social Development, 1 (1). pp. 52-60. ISSN 2320-8244

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Abstract

Health is not only related to medical care but an integrateddevelopment of entire human society. Health is one of the prime concerns of mankind. Health is a pre-requisite for human development and is essentially concerned with the well being of the common man. Quality of health care, health orientation and social protection of health in a population affects the development of any nation. As far as an organic linkage with the rural health is concerned, there is no basic service for an inclusive health interference effortto understand health culture and health behavior of rural people from the larger perspective of social determinants in developing a model of culturally suited health care delivery system. Normally, the context in which an individual lives (socio-economic)is very vital and significant for his/ her health status and quality of life. There are some external determinants which can decide the health status of any person including social environment, health culture, hospitals, doctors etc. Also it significantlydepends on some internal factors including his / her health culture, education, health practices, etc. This paper based on field work experience reveals how social determinants are responsible for various health related problems of the rural people and focuses the need of developing Social Determinants of Public Health Care mechanism

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Health culture, Pluralism, Determinants, Health
Subjects: A Arts and Humanities > Education
Divisions: Department of > Educational Multimedia Research Centre
Depositing User: Dr Raju C
Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2021 11:33
Last Modified: 04 Feb 2021 11:33
URI: http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/15699

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