Book excerpt: This book integrates the concept of healthcare with larger social determinants such as caste, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity. It presents a history of the development of health services, discusses the recommendations of the landmark report of the Bhore Committee that laid the foundations of the public health services in independent India, and traces the evolution of this system through social, economic, and political structures. The subject matter of this book also includes: The Play of Religion in the Delivery of Rural Health Care Of the Relationship Between Population and Development Pay for Performance Programmes in Health Care Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)