Sunita Reddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunita Reddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunita |
| FAMILY NAME | Reddy |
| SIGNATURE | REDDY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India
Introduction
Of odysseys and miracles
In the past two decades, health care has become a global market and transnational practice. An emerging body of literature examines the astounding variety of drivers, conditions, and experiences. However, the question of how traveling abroad for treatment emerges as an option and takes shape in people's illness trajectories has gained little attention thus far. This article attends to this gap by following the stories of people with chronic condi…
Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a widespread problem against children in India. Data suggest that every hour four children are being sexually abused in the country. In this context, the current qualitative research intends to explore the awareness, beliefs, and perceptions about the CSA among the mothers from the lower economic sections of the society. Using in-depth interviews, 30 females aged 18–54 years were interviewed from five marginalized comm…
The Asian Tsunami and Post-Disaster Aid
Spaces of connectivity
Existing research on the formation of Asian medical travel destinations has highlighted a variety of activities that attract and accommodate patients from abroad. This paper contributes to the literature by drawing insights from an Indian case study, a major transnational health‐care hub in Asia that has gained little scholarly attention thus far. Using connectivity as an analytical lens, we understand medical travel destinations as a contingent …
Aarogyasri Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, India
Various models are being tried out under Public–Private Partnerships in health care. Community health insurance is one of the models for providing health security for the people Below Poverty Line (BPL). Various states are experimenting on community health insurance with largely state financing, private provisioning of health care, especially curative care. When the partnership is with the for-profit private/corporate sector, where the underlinin…
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response
Mega Tourism in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Tsunami has changed lives of thousands of people in the islands of Andaman and Nicobar (A & N) Islands, India since it struck on 26.12.04. The tsunami has posed certain uncertainties in the minds of people about the kind of houses they are going to stay in, the kind of neighbourhoods going to form, the kind of livelihood they are going to indulge in. Providing livelihood to the Tsunami affected is going to be the top most agenda of the administra…
Ecosystems Approach to Human Health
The health of humans, like all living organisms, is dependent on an ecosystem that sustains life. Healthy ecosystems are the sine qua non for healthy organisms. The consequences of ecosystem degradation to human health are numerous. Countries across the world have a strong inclination to continue economic growth, even at the cost of severe environmental damage. The human population is now at all-time high, and associated pressures of human activi…
Spaces of connectivity
Existing research on the formation of Asian medical travel destinations has highlighted a variety of activities that attract and accommodate patients from abroad. This paper contributes to the literature by drawing insights from an Indian case study, a major transnational health‐care hub in Asia that has gained little scholarly attention thus far. Using connectivity as an analytical lens, we understand medical travel destinations as a contingent …
Aarogyasri Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, India
Various models are being tried out under Public–Private Partnerships in health care. Community health insurance is one of the models for providing health security for the people Below Poverty Line (BPL). Various states are experimenting on community health insurance with largely state financing, private provisioning of health care, especially curative care. When the partnership is with the for-profit private/corporate sector, where the underlinin…
Ecosystems Approach to Human Health
The health of humans, like all living organisms, is dependent on an ecosystem that sustains life. Healthy ecosystems are the sine qua non for healthy organisms. The consequences of ecosystem degradation to human health are numerous. Countries across the world have a strong inclination to continue economic growth, even at the cost of severe environmental damage. The human population is now at all-time high, and associated pressures of human activi…
Mega Tourism in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Tsunami has changed lives of thousands of people in the islands of Andaman and Nicobar (A & N) Islands, India since it struck on 26.12.04. The tsunami has posed certain uncertainties in the minds of people about the kind of houses they are going to stay in, the kind of neighbourhoods going to form, the kind of livelihood they are going to indulge in. Providing livelihood to the Tsunami affected is going to be the top most agenda of the administra…
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response
Aarogyasri Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, India
Various models are being tried out under Public–Private Partnerships in health care. Community health insurance is one of the models for providing health security for the people Below Poverty Line (BPL). Various states are experimenting on community health insurance with largely state financing, private provisioning of health care, especially curative care. When the partnership is with the for-profit private/corporate sector, where the underlinin…
Spaces of connectivity
Existing research on the formation of Asian medical travel destinations has highlighted a variety of activities that attract and accommodate patients from abroad. This paper contributes to the literature by drawing insights from an Indian case study, a major transnational health‐care hub in Asia that has gained little scholarly attention thus far. Using connectivity as an analytical lens, we understand medical travel destinations as a contingent …
The Asian Tsunami and Post-Disaster Aid
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a widespread problem against children in India. Data suggest that every hour four children are being sexually abused in the country. In this context, the current qualitative research intends to explore the awareness, beliefs, and perceptions about the CSA among the mothers from the lower economic sections of the society. Using in-depth interviews, 30 females aged 18–54 years were interviewed from five marginalized comm…
Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India
Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India
Introduction
Of odysseys and miracles
In the past two decades, health care has become a global market and transnational practice. An emerging body of literature examines the astounding variety of drivers, conditions, and experiences. However, the question of how traveling abroad for treatment emerges as an option and takes shape in people's illness trajectories has gained little attention thus far. This article attends to this gap by following the stories of people with chronic condi…
Political science (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)