CENTRE OF SOCIAL MEDICINE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (BLDG. II)
Guest Lecture Series (CSMCH)
19th 2.30 pm. Room no- 206, SSS- II, JNU
Guest Lecture by
By Prof. Roger Jeffery
(Roger Jeffery is a Professor in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Areas of research Health policy, Emerging economies and global health, Health systems and global health, Political Economy of India, The Sociology of Scotland. Published books and many peer reviewed papers.
Books
2010: Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery & Roger Jeffery, Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in north India (New Delhi: Social Science Press).
2016: Hugo Gorringe, Suryakant Waghmore & Roger Jeffery (eds), From the Margins to the Mainstream (New Delhi, Sage)
2014: Roger Jeffery, Craig Jeffrey and Jens Lerche (eds): Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh, (New Delhi: Sage).
2010: Anthony Heath & Roger Jeffery: Change and Diversity: Economics, Politics and Society in Contemporary India. (Proceedings of the British Academy No. 159, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy).
Appropriate access to medicines in India's fragmented market: Reflections on 10 years' sociological research
In the immediate aftermath of the death of Halfdan Mahler, WHO Secretary-General in the key period of the 1973-1988, this presentation will reflect on how one of the movements he sponsored -- for lists of essential medicines -- has fared in India since 2005. Drawing on the outputs of several research projects on access to medicines in India and elsewhere, the paper will look at some of the major barriers to appropriate (sometimes called 'rational') prescribing. The paper will also ask how far the growing problems of anti-microbial resistance are caused by these inappropriate prescribing patterns, and whether current policy proposals can make a difference.