Government Health Care Delivery: A Case Study of Chandigarh (U.T.)

Abstract

The basic purpose of public health services is to provide hassle free primary health care to citizens. The main areas of concern regarding health services are. improvement of their availability, accessibility and utilisation. The present field based study seeks to identify the availability of health care agencies in the Union Territory of Chandigarh with special respect to government agencies. Further, the issues of delivery of public health services investigated were those of availability of health manpower; health services in terms of preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitation services; manpower; health infrastructural facilities and equipment.