Articles by D Banerji

Breakdown of Public Health System D Banerji NEWSPAPER reports of serious epidemics due to three different infectious diseases from three corners of the country in the second fortnight of April 1984 underline the extent of breakdown of the public health system. The epidemics have affected scores of thousands of people (almost exclusively the poor) and thousands have lost their lives. Reference here is to outbreaks of bacillary dysentery in West Bengal, Type B virus Hepatitis in Gujarat and cholera and 'gastro-enteritis' in the metropolitan city of Bangalore.

Treating the Symptoms D Banerji Health for All: An Alternative Strategy, Report of a Study Group of the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, August 1980.

What Next in Family Welfare?
D Banerji THE mass sterilisation drive during Emergency, when a reign of terror was let loose on the poor, had been a most outrageous chapter in the history of India. Even more outrageous was the response to this move from the educated class/and other shapers of public opinion. Very few of them felt exercised enough at the outrage to express their dissent even to the extent that was allowed by the rules, regulations and laws prevailing during Emergency. Many of them enthusiastically supported the move and still larger segment of this class, while expressing a tinge of regret that so much of force had to be resorted to, actively justified such an action on the ground that tinder the circumstances this was the only way of dealing with an explosive problem which was threatening the very life of the nation. Then there were the rest, constituting the huge 'silent majority', who did not even bother to find out what was going on in the country and were content with whatever was dished out to them through the controlled press, the radio and other communication media.

Class View of Health and Disease The Picture of Health: Environmental Sources of Disease by Erik P Eckholm; W W Norton, New York,
THIS book deserves special attention. Following the traditions of members of the Club of Rome and the Trilateral trously shies away from discussing the political, economic and social forces which are directly generating major Commission who have written about environmental hazards to health in some of the crucial global problems, the different parts of the world. Because author, Erik P Eckholm, sets out to of this feature, the book in fact ham- aualyse the environmental sources of pers the study of environmental hazards, disease on a global scale. Erik Eckparticularly by scholars in the Third holm is a scholar from the Worldwatch World. This book is thus an important Institute of USA. The United Nations addition to the formidable array of Environment Programme has dutifully books that are now being used to extended its full support (including the browbeat or brainwash scholars in the of the financial support) and co- operation to the Institute in this venture and its Executive Director, Mustafa K Tolba, has written the foreword. As pointed out by the author.

Family Planning Programme D Banerji The objective of the National Population Policy was to build up a mass movement throughout the country in favour of the small family norm. The findings of this study clearly indicate that these objectives have not been achieved. In fact, at many places resort to force to impose sterilisation has precipitated quite the contrary condition