Status of Rural Health Care and the Hidden Disparity: A Study of Birbhum District, West Bengal, India

Abstract

Health is the key concept to human happiness. It has a pronounced impact in both social and economic development of the society. So, for the all-round development process basic health care facility is the essential criteria. Health care system in the district of Birbhum of West Bengal is very far from the level of satisfaction, especially from the infrastructural point of view. Lacking of this facility leads to inconsistency in the development of basic health care system as well as in overall development of the society. Discrepancies existed both in spatial and temporal scale. The forgoing analysis is an attempt to glean out the level of disparity and role of different factors in such disparity in health care system in the district of Birbhum, West Bengal.