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Flies without Borders: Lessons from Chennai on Improving India's Municipal Public Health Services

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dc.contributor.authorGupta, Monica Das
dc.contributor.authorDasgupta, Rajib
dc.contributor.authorKugananthan, P.
dc.contributor.authorRao, Vijayendra
dc.contributor.authorSomanathan, T.V.
dc.contributor.authorTewari, K.N.
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-28T18:07:17Z
dc.date.available2020-04-28T18:07:17Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.description.abstractIndia’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.en
dc.identifier.citationThe Journal of Development Studies
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/33658
dc.identifier.issn0022-0388
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33658
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectHEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY
dc.subjectGOVERNANCE
dc.subjectMUNICIPAL HEALTH
dc.subjectPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
dc.subjectURBAN HOUSING
dc.titleFlies without Bordersen
dc.title.subtitleLessons from Chennai on Improving India's Municipal Public Health Servicesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/28375 Working paper version (pre-print)en
okr.crossref.titleFlies without Borders: Lessons from Chennai on Improving India's Municipal Public Health Services
okr.date.disclosure2020-11-30
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontentExternal Content
okr.identifier.doi10.1080/00220388.2019.1605053
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/33658
okr.identifier.report148632
okr.journal.nbpages907-28
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryIndia
okr.topicGovernance::Local Government
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Service Management and Delivery
okr.topicUrban Development::Urban Health
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group, Development Economics
okr.volume56(5)
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